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Hello:
You are invited to participate in our survey on opportunities for new entrants in the potato sector. By helping provide the fullest possible picture, you’ll be contributing to the development of a new entrants initiative for the potato sector which will form part of a major drive to encourage the best new entrants to join the agricultural and horticultural sectors, providing sustainability for the sector. It will only take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete the questionnaire.
As stated in the NFU Farming Delivers report farming will need to deliver tens of thousands of new career opportunities over the coming years, if the industry is to fulfil its mission of producing more, whilst impacting less. Figures quoted suggest that there will be a requirement for 60,000 new farmer and farm-worker entrants by 2017. As farming becomes ever more diverse and technologically driven, many of these jobs will be for skilled workers.
Potato Council would like to determine what proportion of these opportunities will exist in the potato sector and what other career prospects exist for new entrants in potato related industries. Our plan is to put together a showcase for BP2013 (27/28 November, Harrogate) and encourage new entrants to attend the event to meet leaders in the potato industry.
Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Your information will be coded and will remain confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or the procedures, you may contact [email protected].
Thank you very much for your time and support. Please start with the survey now by clicking on the Continue button below. |
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| * Q1. In your business/organisation, which of the following best describes your position/role ? |
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| * Q2. Please state the farm area owned (hectares)? | | |
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| * Q3. Please state the total potato area grown in 2012 (hectares)? | | |
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| * Q4. Please select all the markets that you supply? |
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| Q5. Approximately how many employees are currently employed in your business/organisation? |
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| Q6. Approximately how many new (permanent) recruits do you take on each year? |
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| * Q7. Approximately how many seasonal workers do you take on each year? | | |
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| * Q8. How would describe the ease or difficulty you have in securing employees of the right calibre? |
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| * Q9. Currently, which areas/roles do you find most difficult to recruit for? Select all that apply. |
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| * Q10a. Do you offer work placements/apprenticeships? |
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| * Q10b. In which areas/ kind of roles do you provide placements/apprenticeships? | | |
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| * Q11. Looking to the future, how many new employees do you estimate you will need over the next 10 years due to business growth and employee turnover? | | |
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| * Q12. In which areas of your business would these job opportunities be? | | |
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| Q13. Approximately what percentage of your current employees have received the following agricultural training or experience?
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| * Q14a. Do you foresee a staff resource gap in the next 5 years? |
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| * Q14b. In which areas/roles do you think these gaps will exist? | | |
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| Q14c. To fulfil the reseource gaps identified in the previous question, please state how likely you are to do the following?
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| Q15. If you have any further comments, please provide these in the box below. | | |
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| * Q16. We may wish to follow up with respondents to ask for more information. Are you willing to be contacted? |
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| CON. Please could you provide your contact details below?
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| Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. |
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