Cotton Camp an eye opener for Students
15/5/2017
The Rotary Club of Narromine provided an opportunity for 16 students from across NSW to get first hand experience in the cotton industry.
The Rotary Club of Narromine provided an opportunity for 16 secondary students from across NSW to get first hand experience in the cotton industry.
The 3 day camp that has been running for 5 years sees the students visiting farms and cottons gins as well as the Narromine Irrigation Scheme.
Camp founder and coordinator, Geoff Smith, said the camp is to give students a taste of what working in the different aspects of the cotton industry entails.
“It’s mainly to introduce kids who don’t know a great deal about the cotton industry and what it’s all about, and hopefully they’ll go on to tertiary education in agriculture of some form and/or join an agricultural business,” he said.
One student Stephanie Davies, Grenfell, said the camp was a real eye-opener.
“We are wheat and sheep farmers so learning about cotton has been a huge eye-opener, it’s so different,” she said.
