A fresh report has issued a warning of sorts when it said that Australia will have to usher-in extra overseas workers—the reason being a large number of farmers of the nation would retire over the course of the next decade. It added that the average age of the farmers of the country was 56 during the last year, 2011.

In the backdrop of scarcity of experienced farmers to train young farmers, there may be acute shortage of skills even while the migrants from Asia would play a good role in helping the nation tide over the situation, observed the report. But the same report also maintained that Canberra would do well to change its policies related to immigration and visa with the countries of Asia with a view to suitably managing its likely scarcity of skills in the near future.

The report continued that there is a remarkable possibility that there would be a dearth of skilled farmers to provide training to younger farmers, whose role would be crucial, in specific challenging matters involving the boosting of the overall productivity, and adjusting to certain new developments, including climate change, heightened competition, apart from an increased awareness related to environmental influences of farming.

It (report) also forecasted that with the retirement of a large number of farmers several farms would be disposed-off to world and corporate investors due to their natural resources even as the same would create several openings which the nation would find it rather hard to cover.