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Rural primary schools have received more than $109,000 from ANZCO Foods as part of the company’s Sponsor a School Programme, with several recipients located in the South Island.

The Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology has launched its new Level 2 Sustainable Horticulture programme.

Forty-five primary schools across New Zealand will soon be better equipped to teach students about where food and fibre comes from.

OPINION: Another school farm facing the chopping block is that of Te Awamutu College in Waikato.

OPINION: At a time when some people are working to narrow the rural-urban divide, one Canterbury school is closing its farm.

Rural Communities Minister Kieran McAnulty says rural communities will benefit from education and transport funding announced in today’s budget.

Year 11 students from Oamaru’s three high schools ventured out of the classroom and onto the farm for a field day hosted by the North Otago Sustainable Land Management (NOSLaM) group.

A Bay of Plenty school will be able to keep its fruit and veg plants hydrated with the help of a new rainwater tank.

Massey University's School of Agriculture and Environment head says in the future it's likely that more students will do their degrees part time.

Teachers have welcomed a move by the Government to put money into supporting secondary school agricultural and horticultural science and to get more students into a career in the ag and hort sectors.