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Southwest Georgia

Bioscience Work Ready Region

 

Georgia's Work Ready Regions is an industry cluster strategy. Each region is an industry-led effort headed by an industry leader and guided by the regions existing industry network. The result is a linking of education, workforce development and training aligned to the needs of the regional bioscience industry. Its bioscience industry network is known as the Southwest Georgia Agribusiness Consortium.

The Southwest Georgia Agribusiness Consortium, to date, includes Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Randolph, Seminole, Terrell and Thomas Counties. Dougherty and Grady Counties have earned Certified Work Ready Community status and Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early, Mitchell, Randolph, Seminole, Terrell and Thomas Counties are working toward the designation.

The region is home to a strong agricultural network that sells goods to the increasingly diverse global food marketplace, local and regional produce markets and mail-order delivery customers. It is a producer of crops for leading food manufacturing companies such as Campbell's Soup, M&M Mars, and Tara Foods. The region's competitive workforce supports a wide variety of agribusiness-related activities ranging from production to processing to distribution to new product and process development. Click here for more detail about the region's workforce.

Vision:

The workforce in Southwest Georgia will possess a foundation of skills that not only ensure the competitiveness of the agribusiness industry, but also effectively serve other industries in the region.

Differentiating the Southwest Georgia Agribusiness Consortium:

  • The leading center of Georgia's traditional row-crop agriculture
  • Producer of crops for leading food manufacturing companies such as Campbell's Soup, M&M Mars and Tara Foods

Goals:

  • Regional students and workers are aware of, and interested in, the diverse array of career opportunities available to them in the agribusiness industry
  • An educational system that supports the continuous development of agribusiness and bioscience-related skills at both the K-12 and post-secondary level
  • An industry network that actively encourages and supports the continuous development of the skills needed to enhance the competitiveness of the region's agribusiness and bioscience industries
  • Area agribusiness and bioscience firms match applicants with jobs that effectively utilize their skills
  • All counties achieve 20 percent gold-level Work Ready Certificate status

Click here to see the full Southwest Georgia Agribusiness Consortium strategy paper.

This site provides specific information about the region's industry cluster, talent management, workforce development, and community and economic development efforts.

 

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You can access Work Ready tools and info in every Georgia county. Learn how to:

  • Schedule a Work Ready assessment

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