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Farming Today: 17/10/23 Inquiry into land-based education; Rural skills in Scotland. Reducing emissions from livestock; Coracle fishing

17/10/23 Inquiry into land-based education; Rural skills in Scotland. Reducing emissions from livestock; Coracle fishing

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 17/10/23 Inquiry into land-based education; Rural skills in Scotland. Reducing emissions from livestock; Coracle fishing

Are young people learning the skills agriculture needs? Inquiry into land-based education.

MPs inquiry into land-based education. Rural skills in Scotland. Reduce emissions from uplands livestock. Fishermen say fishing by coracle is under threat from river pollution.

MPs launch an inquiry to find out if young people are failing to get the skills needed to work in rural jobs.

All week we're looking at training and education in land-based careers. Rural Skills Scotland offers apprenticeships and qualifications to help get people who are unemployed or live in towns and cities back to work. We visit a training session in Fife.

Can upland farms cut their environmental impacts and still stay in business? That’s what trials in the Scottish Highlands are aiming to find out. The Cairngorms National Park has backed a study to see how emissions can be cut, and biodiversity boosted, while farms still stay in the black. We visit one farm taking part in the study.

Coracle fishing may be in danger of dying out, because of river pollution, according to South West Wales fishers. It’s a tradition that dates back centuries, using a small, rounded, lightweight boat, but fishermen say it's at risk because of a lack of fish.

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Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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