We're known for producing the best food and fibre - and now it seems the rest of the world is cottoning on.
A growing number of international students, who are being lured by the state's world class agricultural courses, are taking what they learn here to implement in their own countries.
And some like Japan's Kyosuke Kudayama want to stay in Australia to pursue an agricultural career.
Despite the dairy industry battling unsustainable farm gate prices, Mr Kudayama who is studying Diploma of Agriculture at TAFE NSW Primary Industry Centre (PIC), wants to run a dairy farm in Australia.
As a child, Mr Kudayama would travel daily to his grandmother's home deep in the Japanese dairy belt of Hokkaido.
"I would look out the car window and I fell in love with the dairy farms," he said.
TAFE NSW head teacher of agriculture Rob Harris said international students were increasingly being drawn to the TAFE NSW PIC because it was a unique facility centrally located to diverse agriculture.
Figures from the Federal Department of Industry show there were 631 international student enrolments in the broad field of study "Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies" in NSW - up from 481 enrolments in 2015.
A Study NSW spokesperson said NSW attracted more international students than any other state with 330,000 international students enrolments at NSW institutions in the year to December 2018.
Study NSW - a unit within the Department of Industry - was established by the NSW Government in 2014 to grow the international education sector in NSW and enhance the experience of international students in NSW.
International education was the state's largest services export industry and worth over $12.18 billion in 2017-18 supporting more than 92,000 jobs in the state for 2017, the spokesperson said.
"NSW academic institutions have a global reputation for delivering world-class educational outcomes," the spokesperson said.
NSW International Student of the Year (2018) Forough Atalloahi, who grew up in a farming family in Iran, is at Charles Stuart University undertaking a PhD in Veterinary Physiology with a focus on improving yields in the global sheep industry with the aid of mineral supplementation.
Prior to that she studied for a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in Iran and then moved to Malaysia were she studied for a Master of Biomedical Science degree.
Dr Atalloahi has also secured work as a researcher in animal health and welfare with the NSW Department of Primary Industries in Wagga Wagga.
"I wanted to come to Australia because it is internationally known for its sheep industry and research," she said.
NSW Farmers' president James Jackson said international students studying in Australia was positive because the learning "worked both ways".
"We export to countries all over the world and there is always someone clever in agriculture you can learn from," Mr Jackson said.
"There is some interesting irrigation technology coming out of Israel and with scarcity of water in Australia we can learn from that."
