Nearly 6,000 Nghe An farmers trained in agricultural professions
(Baonghean) - After 9 years of the Agricultural Extension Center providing agricultural vocational training for rural workers, nearly 6,000 people have learned agricultural skills right in their locality, contributing to sustainable poverty reduction.
Create concentrated production areas
Visiting Nguyen Van Ba's farm in Hamlet 4, Dien Lien Commune (Dien Chau), he excitedly said: "The family's economic income previously only relied on 4-5 sao of rice fields and raising 3-5 pigs, so life was very difficult. Thanks to the District Agricultural Extension Station's support for me to participate in mushroom growing training, up to now, I and some people who have been trained in the hamlet have joined together to form a mushroom and oyster mushroom production team and regularly maintain 5-6 workers, each month providing a stable income of 3.5-4.5 million VND/person, now life is much better".
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| Growing oyster mushrooms in Nam Loc commune (Nam Dan). Photo: Hong Suong |
Mr. Phan Huy Hao - Head of Dien Chau District Agricultural Extension Station added that up to now, Dien Chau district has also opened 18 vocational training classes, focusing mainly on cattle, pig, chicken farming, and safe vegetable production, and the results have been quite successful. Basically, all households have maintained and developed the learned profession, bringing higher family income than before learning the profession.
To make vocational training truly effective, the station had to do well from the selection of apprentices to practical skills training and post-training consultation. In particular, the station proactively linked with local authorities and businesses to advise and support the consumption of output products for apprentices when requested.
Ms. Truong Thi Lai - officer in charge of the Agricultural Extension Station of Quy Hop district affirmed that the district has always paid attention to and focused on agricultural vocational training for rural laborers. In recent years, although the District Agricultural Extension Station has only organized 14 vocational training classes in the district, they are of high quality, effective and practical.
The most important thing is to create opportunities for ethnic minorities in mountainous areas to access vocational training, have new jobs, access scientific and technical advances, thereby cultivating and raising livestock more successfully and effectively, and taking advantage of idle labor.
To effectively carry out vocational training, the Provincial Agricultural Extension Center has established a Steering Committee, developed regulations, and provided guidance on the implementation of agricultural vocational training for rural workers in the agricultural extension system. The training process is subject to inspection, supervision, and annual review and summary to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of vocational training.The center has applied for licenses for 20 agricultural occupations that need training (10 farming occupations, 3 animal husbandry occupations, 4 forestry occupations, and 3 aquaculture occupations) and compiled and edited 20 sets of textbooks for use in vocational training.
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| Growing mushrooms in Nghi Thai commune (Nghi Loc). Photo: The Thang |
Up to now, 11/20 occupations have been trained with 188 classes, 5,931 students participated (female 4,083/5,931, accounting for 68.8%); including 48 pig farming classes, 54 chicken farming classes, 16 cow farming classes, 25 vegetable production classes, 8 orange growing classes, 4 sugarcane growing classes, 5 flower growing classes, 1 paper material growing class, 1 traditional fish farming class, 18 mushroom growing classes and 8 tea growing classes. The number of graduates after vocational training is 5,471/5,931 people, reaching 92.2% (female 3,824/5,471 people, accounting for 69.9%).
Some typical districts in organizing and implementing agricultural vocational training for rural laborers in the province are Yen Thanh district (19 classes), Dien Chau (18 classes), Thanh Chuong district (15 classes), Tan Ky district (15 classes), Vinh city (15 classes). The occupations that many people want to learn are mainly chicken farming (54 classes), pig farming (48 classes), safe vegetable production (25 classes), mushroom growing (18 classes); these 4 occupations account for 77.12% of the total number of vocational classes trained.
Vocational training has contributed to gradually creating concentrated production areas and localities that bring high economic efficiency such as mushroom growing in Yen Thanh district; orange growing in Con Cuong, Quy Hop, Nghia Dan districts; tea growing in Thanh Chuong, Con Cuong districts; safe vegetable growing, pig and chicken raising in Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Do Luong, Nam Dan districts and Vinh city. In particular, livestock farming has attracted many learners and has brought economic efficiency from expanding the scale and developing livestock and poultry farming in the whole province.
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| The chicken farming model in Anh Son brings high economic efficiency. Photo: Thai Hien |
The survey shows that the demand for agricultural vocational training of rural laborers in Nghe An province is still very large, especially for ethnic minorities in mountainous, remote and isolated areas.
Solutions to improve training quality
To improve the quality and effectiveness of agricultural vocational training, it is necessary to carry out well and synchronously the following tasks and solutions:
Monday,The prerequisite of vocational training is to start from the expectations of learners and market demand for products.
Tuesday,The management staff and vocational teachers must regularly improve their professional skills and expertise to improve their capacity, teaching quality and skills for learners. Create conditions to encourage experts, scientists and managers to participate and support the development of curriculum, lesson plans and vocational training.
Wednesday,When providing vocational training, it is necessary to proactively link with companies, factories, and businesses to support learning, create jobs, and consume products made for vocational students, especially forming groups, teams, and cooperatives to proactively seek opportunities to link production along the product chain.
Fifth, create conditions for post-training trainees to access and participate in programs, projects, production development models or preferential loans to develop production, encourage and attract more agricultural workers to participate and maintain and develop sustainable careers after training.
It can be said that, after 9 years, Nghe An Agricultural Extension Center has participated in agricultural vocational training for rural workers and achieved many remarkable results. The agricultural extension staff has been increasingly standardized, improved in professional expertise and experience; and increased the rate of agricultural workers receiving vocational training.
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