Hundreds of young graduates will be assigned to work in cooperatives to help improve professional skills and management capacity for workers there (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Hundreds of universityand college graduates who had studied farming and breeding will be assigned towork in agricultural cooperatives beginning this year.
By the end of last year, the country had morethan 11,600 agricultural cooperatives with more than 4.1 million members, adecrease of more than 1.3 million members since 2012, according to theDepartment of Cooperatives and Rural Development (DCRD) under the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development. On average, each cooperative has about 368members.
As many as 193 agricultural cooperatives acrossthe country apply high technology to their growing and processing work.
However, cooperatives’ development is stilllimited due to fund shortages and a lack of connections between producers andconsumption markets, said DCRD Director Ma Quang Trung.
Last year, in a conference summing up five yearsof implementing the 2012 Law on Cooperatives, experts agreed that one of themain reasons for the cooperatives’ lack of innovation was that their workershad little official training. About 60 percent of cooperatives’ workers did notgraduate from high school.
Tran Thanh Nam, Deputy Minister of Agricultureand Rural Development, said that most of the workers were elderly and had longsince left school. Cooperatives did not have scientific and technologicalofficials to give guidance to other members, he added.
To improve cooperative workers’ skills, the DCRDset up a pilot programme to bring young graduates to work on agriculturalcooperatives. Funds for the programme will come from the State budget.
DCRD Deputy Director Le Duc Thinh said thatcooperative workers’ management abilities and professional skills were the mostimportant factor in developing successful agricultural cooperatives.
The cooperatives in need will receive support toemploy three graduates. The graduates’ terms will be no longer than threeyears.
To employ the young graduates, the cooperativeswill show their detailed plans for production and explain how they will utilisethe experiences of the graduates, according to the DCRD.-VNA
By the end of last year, the country had morethan 11,600 agricultural cooperatives with more than 4.1 million members, adecrease of more than 1.3 million members since 2012, according to theDepartment of Cooperatives and Rural Development (DCRD) under the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development. On average, each cooperative has about 368members.
As many as 193 agricultural cooperatives acrossthe country apply high technology to their growing and processing work.
However, cooperatives’ development is stilllimited due to fund shortages and a lack of connections between producers andconsumption markets, said DCRD Director Ma Quang Trung.
Last year, in a conference summing up five yearsof implementing the 2012 Law on Cooperatives, experts agreed that one of themain reasons for the cooperatives’ lack of innovation was that their workershad little official training. About 60 percent of cooperatives’ workers did notgraduate from high school.
Tran Thanh Nam, Deputy Minister of Agricultureand Rural Development, said that most of the workers were elderly and had longsince left school. Cooperatives did not have scientific and technologicalofficials to give guidance to other members, he added.
To improve cooperative workers’ skills, the DCRDset up a pilot programme to bring young graduates to work on agriculturalcooperatives. Funds for the programme will come from the State budget.
DCRD Deputy Director Le Duc Thinh said thatcooperative workers’ management abilities and professional skills were the mostimportant factor in developing successful agricultural cooperatives.
The cooperatives in need will receive support toemploy three graduates. The graduates’ terms will be no longer than threeyears.
To employ the young graduates, the cooperativeswill show their detailed plans for production and explain how they will utilisethe experiences of the graduates, according to the DCRD.-VNA
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