Many people in rural areas in HCM City have steady jobs thanks to a programme to provide free vocational training (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) -Many people in Ho Chi Minh City’s rural areas have stable jobs thanks to a cityprogramme to provide free vocational training.
Nguyen Thi Bay of Nha Be district’s Phuoc Kien commune is one ofthe beneficiaries.
She said in the past her family had been dependent on agriculturefor a livelihood, but its farmlands were acquired for the construction of anindustrial park.
Local authorities and the Farmers Association in Nha Be districtput Bay in the free vocational training programme for rural residents.
She learnt sewing for three months at the district vocationaltraining centre.
Bay also received a loan at a low interest rate to buy a sewingmachine and was introduced to many customers.
Things have looked up since: She has five sewing machines andemploys several people, and her income is more than a dozen million VND amonth.
Nha Be has hundreds of such people with steady incomes thanks tothe vocational training, the district Economic Division reported.
According to relevant agencies, more than 89 percent of people whogot training in agriculture have jobs.
The city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Developmentreported that 20,652 rural people were trained in agriculture between 2011 and2016, accounting for 35 percent of the total number of rural residents who gotvocational training.
The municipal People’s Committee this year aims to providetraining for 12,000 rural residents in the outlying districts of Can Gio, NhaBe, Cu Chi, Binh Chanh, and Hoc Mon, 3,470 in agriculture and the rest in othervocational skills.
Of them, more than 80 percent are expected to get jobs.
People covered by State policies, poor and near poor people,ethnic minorities, and disabled people get priority under the trainingprogramme.
Those affected by public projects too get priority.
Trainees get travelling and accommodation allowances if thevocational training centre is far from their home.
Tran Ngoc Ho, deputy head of the department, said the ruralvocational training programme helps restructure agricultural and thelabour force and improve the incomes and lives of farmers, contributing topoverty reduction.
It is very important that people who get the training should alsoget jobs, he added.
Tran Anh Tuan, deputy head of the Centre for Forecasting ManpowerNeeds and Labour Market Information, said more than one million people ofworking age live in the city’s rural areas.
Many have low academic knowledge and skills and need to betrained, he said.
Trainees are offered 65 occupations to choose from, includingprocessing and preservation of agricultural and forest products and seafood andproduction of construction materials, he said.
The city’s programme dovetails with a national programme to buildnew rural areas and restructure agriculture.
Nguyen Trong Liem, head of the city Agriculture DevelopmentAgency, said the city can fully meet the demand for training in agriculture.
It offers many long-term and professional training programmes atthe agricultural promotion centre, bio-technology centre, ManagementBoard of the city’s High-Tech Agricultural Park and elsewhere, he said.
However, they need to constantly update their training programmes,he added.-VNA
Nguyen Thi Bay of Nha Be district’s Phuoc Kien commune is one ofthe beneficiaries.
She said in the past her family had been dependent on agriculturefor a livelihood, but its farmlands were acquired for the construction of anindustrial park.
Local authorities and the Farmers Association in Nha Be districtput Bay in the free vocational training programme for rural residents.
She learnt sewing for three months at the district vocationaltraining centre.
Bay also received a loan at a low interest rate to buy a sewingmachine and was introduced to many customers.
Things have looked up since: She has five sewing machines andemploys several people, and her income is more than a dozen million VND amonth.
Nha Be has hundreds of such people with steady incomes thanks tothe vocational training, the district Economic Division reported.
According to relevant agencies, more than 89 percent of people whogot training in agriculture have jobs.
The city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Developmentreported that 20,652 rural people were trained in agriculture between 2011 and2016, accounting for 35 percent of the total number of rural residents who gotvocational training.
The municipal People’s Committee this year aims to providetraining for 12,000 rural residents in the outlying districts of Can Gio, NhaBe, Cu Chi, Binh Chanh, and Hoc Mon, 3,470 in agriculture and the rest in othervocational skills.
Of them, more than 80 percent are expected to get jobs.
People covered by State policies, poor and near poor people,ethnic minorities, and disabled people get priority under the trainingprogramme.
Those affected by public projects too get priority.
Trainees get travelling and accommodation allowances if thevocational training centre is far from their home.
Tran Ngoc Ho, deputy head of the department, said the ruralvocational training programme helps restructure agricultural and thelabour force and improve the incomes and lives of farmers, contributing topoverty reduction.
It is very important that people who get the training should alsoget jobs, he added.
Tran Anh Tuan, deputy head of the Centre for Forecasting ManpowerNeeds and Labour Market Information, said more than one million people ofworking age live in the city’s rural areas.
Many have low academic knowledge and skills and need to betrained, he said.
Trainees are offered 65 occupations to choose from, includingprocessing and preservation of agricultural and forest products and seafood andproduction of construction materials, he said.
The city’s programme dovetails with a national programme to buildnew rural areas and restructure agriculture.
Nguyen Trong Liem, head of the city Agriculture DevelopmentAgency, said the city can fully meet the demand for training in agriculture.
It offers many long-term and professional training programmes atthe agricultural promotion centre, bio-technology centre, ManagementBoard of the city’s High-Tech Agricultural Park and elsewhere, he said.
However, they need to constantly update their training programmes,he added.-VNA
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