Brazil’s Mato Grosso Must Qualify 210,000 Industry Workers by 2027
Mato Grosso industry faces a 210,000-person training task by 2027. Most of it is retraining people who already work in the state. The post Brazil’s Mato Grosso Must Qualify 210,000 Industry Workers by 2027 appeared first on The Rio Times .
Mato Grosso industry will need to train 210,000 people between 2026 and 2027, according to a national projection. These 210,000 places are split into 31,000 new entrants and 179,000 for existing staff. The Mapa do Trabalho Industrial 2025-2027 projection covers over 5,500 municipalities and estimates national demand near 14 million people.
Logistics and transport require 57,000 places, followed by agriculture-linked occupations at 24,000, construction at 21,000, maintenance and repair at 20,000, and food and beverages at 18,000. Manufacturing makes up 57 percent of industrial activity, while construction accounts for 26 percent. Senai, the National Industrial Training Service, is the main provider, running 14 fixed units across Mato Grosso.
In the first half of 2026, Senai qualified over 11,700 people and issued 19,300 completion certificates across ten course types. SENAI's state arm opened an agro-industrial reference centre in Nova Mutum with AGCO, designed to train more than 600 professionals a year. Lucas do Rio Verde, the fastest-growing city in the state, has pledged 8,000 housing opportunities in eight years, with 4,223 completed so far.
The training gap is acknowledged, and capacity costs money, with the Fiemt system reporting 17 works worth R$ 169.3 million. The state's average monthly earnings are lower than Brazil's average, and state unemployment is the lowest of any Brazilian state.
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