Agriculture is the backbone of the New Zealand economy and throughout the country there are a wide range of opportunities in agricultural contracting. Land development, drainage, tree and hedge trimming, constructing farm tracks and dams and preparing farm building sites are just some of the contracting work carried out. Then there are opportunities to operate today’s sophisticated agricultural machinery for cultivating, planting and harvesting crops.

Agricultural chemical application is a specialist area with an emphasis on a sustainable environment and there is the opportunity to become a registered chemical applicator. There is plenty of scope in this rural contracting sector to learn a wide range of management skills and own a contracting business.
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