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right New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) is a national agricultural organisation with regional clubs throughout the country. It was formed in 1927 in the town of Fielding. The organisation acts as a social network for rural youth around the country and is actively involved in education and promotion of personal skills for its members. There are over 1800 members in 90 clubs around the country, all backed by the national organisation, which has its headquarters in Methven, Canterbury. The organisation's current chairman is Cole Groves. ==History== The first Young Farmers clubs were established in Feilding in 1927 and Auckland in 1932, but much of the organisation's early growth came in the south. By the early 1930s, there were eight clubs in the Otago Region alone, and they formed New Zealand’s first Young Farmers Federation. The federation rapidly expanded, containing 40 clubs by 1935, over half of them from Otago and with only two in the North Island.〔Smith, W., & Kelly, S. "(Farmer and grower organisations – Young farmers )", ''Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', 1 March 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2011.〕 In 1936, the young organisation moved its headquarters to the government's Department of Agriculture in Wellington and adopted a new constitution. This promoted the club's national nature, encouraging more growth in the North island. By 1937, the federation included nearly 120 clubs, evenly distributed between the two islands. The organisation's membership dropped during World War II, but quickly recovered ground after 1945, rising to a maximum of 306 clubs in 1948. A partner organisation, the Country Girls' Club, was also organised during the late 1940s. In 1972 the two organisations amalgamated to become the Federation of Rural Youth. The following year, a new constitution was accompanied by a change of name to the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers Clubs, a name it kept until 2003 when it became New Zealand Young Farmers. The organisation's head office was moved to Methven Canterbury at this time where it remains today.〔 AgriKidsNZ and TeenAg New Zealand Young Farmers expanded its programmes to include primary school aged children with AgriKidsNZ and high school students with TeenAg clubs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Zealand Young Farmers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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