Building a rural workforce with knowledge and high skills

DTO - In recent times, vocational training in agriculture for rural workers in the province has received attention from Party committees, authorities and organizations at all levels, with targets and tasks included in the action programs and annual implementation plans of the sectors and fields. Thereby, it contributes to training a team of professional farmers, building a rural labor force with knowledge and high skills to meet the requirements of socio-economic development...

Through agricultural training courses, farmers in the province have gradually changed their farming habits towards approaching scientific and technical advances and applying mechanization (Photo: Nhat Khanh)

Access to scientific and technological advances

In that spirit, propaganda work is carried out regularly in many diverse forms, popularizing smart agricultural models, ecological and organic agriculture, attracting many rural workers to participate. Thereby helping farmers update new knowledge, grasp science and technology applied to agricultural production, contributing to increasing income and sustainable poverty reduction.

Step by step transferring science and technology to rural workers, the province organized 275 training courses and seminars, conferences, and workshops to share experiences with 8,943 farmers on agricultural production practices associated with traceability, growing area codes, and straw utilization programs associated with circular economy; transferring science and technology on sustainable rice production, organic rice production, safe fruit production, GAP, livestock and poultry farming, and aquaculture in the direction of biosafety, ensuring food hygiene and safety... Through training courses, rural workers can improve the efficiency of agricultural production.

Agricultural vocational training programs and curricula are built to suit the actual needs of localities and are compiled according to regulations. Recently, two new vocational training programs and curricula have been built and developed (artificial reproduction of catfish fry; giant freshwater prawn seed production).

Regarding agricultural vocational training for rural workers, the province organized 76 classes with 2,079 participants (reaching 95.8% of the planned target of 2,170 workers); the total number of farmers completing the course and receiving certificates was 2,069 students. The training fields include: cultivation, animal husbandry, aquaculture. At the same time, a vocational training class for cooperative directors was organized with 34 participants. According to localities, most students after vocational training have created jobs for themselves, applied the knowledge they learned to production work, and gradually changed their farming habits towards approaching scientific and technical advances to increase productivity and income.

In addition to the achieved results, there are still some limitations, when the number of workers participating in vocational training has not reached the planned target of 2,079/2,170 workers (reaching 95.8%). The reason is that currently, the rural labor force with the need to learn a trade is not much, especially poor and near-poor households. Currently, there are not many young workers with the need to learn agricultural trades, because most of them work in industrial parks, big cities...

Support for agricultural vocational training

Faced with the above advantages and difficulties, the province has proposed a plan to provide agricultural vocational training for rural workers in 2025 in Dong Thap province with the goal of creating conditions for rural workers to access, choose a profession and participate in vocational training; contributing to increasing the rate of trained rural workers; improving the quality of human resources for smart agricultural production, ecological and organic agriculture and digital transformation in agriculture. Accordingly, in 2025, the province plans to provide vocational training for 3,357 rural workers. Of which, 3,317 rural workers will be trained in agricultural vocational training and 40 cooperative director vocational training.

To achieve that target, the province has set out a number of tasks and solutions. Among them, promoting propaganda to raise awareness among rural workers about the role and effectiveness of agricultural vocational training in the context of agricultural production having to adapt to climate change and market demand. Surveying and forecasting vocational training needs for rural workers with orientation (such as cooperatives, cooperative groups, guilds, farms, youth with orientation to start a business from agriculture, community agricultural extension groups...) in the management area to promptly advise, propose and support training according to the address.

At the same time, train and develop the teaching staff, update knowledge for officials participating in agricultural vocational training. Review, update, and develop agricultural vocational training programs and curricula in accordance with practical needs, labor market needs, and local agricultural development orientation. Research, develop, and supplement a list of new training occupations in accordance with the needs of modern agricultural development, high-tech application, and clean and safe agricultural production.

On the other hand, support agricultural vocational training for rural workers. Focus on vocational training to serve the development of high-tech agriculture, production of safe, organic products, synchronous mechanization, processing, production linkage according to value chains, safety certification; circular production; development of OCOP products. Encourage the replication of vocational training models associated with agricultural extension models to serve the Project on restructuring the agricultural sector and building new rural areas. Prioritize occupations in the fields of high-tech agriculture, synchronous mechanization, processing, production linkage according to value chains, safety certification; occupations in farm management, enterprises, cooperatives and services serving agricultural production and business...

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Source: https://baodongthap.vn/kinh-te/xay-dung-luc-luong-lao-dong-nong-thon-co-kien-thuc-tay-nghe-cao-130196.aspx