📋 Tender Overview
Climate change, preserving biodiversity, but also securing food sovereignty are more current challenges than ever. The agricultural, forestry and horticultural sectors have to deal with them on a daily basis. Not least for this reason, the Free State provides comprehensive training and further education in the agricultural sector. The focus is on current requirements, which also contributes to food sovereignty. The guarantors of this are agriculture, forestry and the food industry.
This is why Agriculture and Food Minister Michaela Kaniber met the 32 best Bavarian graduates of green professions in Munich again this year: Your work is the basis for all of our lives. You master your diverse professional tasks with innovative knowledge and great enthusiasm. Society needs you as a provider. For this, you deserve appreciation across the board, which I will continue to work towards. We will also continue to pay attention to a wide range of the best training opportunities. Excellent further training gives you an excellent foundation. We support you because we know that those who promote young talent make green jobs sustainable.
Since 2020, Minister of State Kaniber has been inviting the five percent best graduates from the agricultural sector to a round table discussion in Munich every year. This year, among the 32 master craftsmen invited, sixteen were from the professions of farmer, fish farming master, agricultural service master and horse farming master. Also guests: agricultural business economists, technicians for agriculture, viticulture and oenology, for forestry technology as well as agricultural specialists in accounting, head greenkeepers and golf course maintenance greenkeepers, sports field maintainers and certified nature and landscape conservationists.
Training in the agricultural sector is in demand: last year, 2,044 young people began in-company training; the number remained constant compared to the previous year. In autumn 2023, 2,021 people had started training in the agricultural sector. Of the 4,730 trainees currently learning a green profession in Bavaria, 1,355 are undergoing in-company training as farmers and 1,859 as gardeners. Last year, around 800 newcomers started in-company training as farmers. This is a record figure not reached since 2016.
Since 1995, the state government has been awarding the Master Craftsman Prize to particularly successful graduates. This is intended to motivate young people to strive for a master craftsmans degree. Last year, around 2.62 million euros were paid out as a master craftsmans bonus for successful training graduates from Bavaria. Bavaria is one of the few federal states to pay an increased master craftsmans bonus and invests an additional 30 million euros annually. In this way, Bavaria shows its appreciation for vocational training - also financially. Qualified specialists are crucial for the future viability of our companies, as well as for the competitiveness of our business location, the minister concluded.
