Primary ITO

Primary ITO aims to help New Zealand’s primary sector flourish by growing people’s skills. We lead work-based education and training across the many industries in the primary sector.

We firmly believe that on-the-job training is the future of learning. That can be supported by online and in-person learning where those are the best options. People earn while they learn, and businesses get value from their staff from day one. 

Better skills enable people to be more productive and lead more fulfilling and rewarding work lives. 

We have around 20,000 learners each year at around 6000 different workplaces around the country. At Primary ITO, we pride ourselves on being up driveways, at the end of dirt roads, on the factory floor, online or in the classroom. Whatever it takes to support our learners.

We have a government mandate under the Industry Training and Apprenticeships Act 1992 to arrange work-based training for a wide range of sectors.  

We also design the programmes that enable people to gain skills and qualifications in their chosen field. 

Within each sector there are many other highly specialised fields, like kiwifruit, wine growing and hops, to milk quality, shearing, breeding horses and many more.