Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) is clear that women-only agricultural training is necessary and responds to specific requests from women seeking to develop their agricultural experience; the evidence is there to support this.
“There clearly is the need and demand for women-only training courses in skills for farming and crofting”, Patrick Krause, Chief Executive of the SCF, said. “The ground-breaking research commissioned by Scottish Government, ‘Women in Farming and the Agriculture Sector’, presents unequivocal evidence that this is so.