Agriculture at Barker College has continued to increase in popularity over the past decade, from four classes in 2007 to 15 classes in 2017, across years 9 to 12.

Barker’s 2017 year 12 cohort of 68 students across four classes will be the largest group of HSC agriculture candidates from any school in NSW.

They will make up about 5 per cent of the total HSC Agriculture students in NSW next year.

Students choosing to study agriculture at Barker has increased in every year group.

There are now 55 students in year 9, 85 in year 10, 60 in year 11 and 68 in year 12.

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“It’s really encouraging to see our numbers increase given the subject is voluntary all the way through, and we are a city based school,” said Barker’s co-ordinator of agriculture, Scott Graham.

“Students seem to be enjoying the subject, they are finding it relevant to their lives and many are seeing a future in it.

“With the world needing to roughly double food production by 2050 to cater for the growing population and more than six jobs available for every agriculture graduate out of university, it is encouraging to see so many of our students not only keen to do ag at school, but also many progress to university and into agriculture once they leave Barker.”

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