With the training, the rate of the province’s trained labourers will reach 67 percent by 2020 compared to 48 percent this year. The province aims to have more than 80 percent of trainees with jobs related to their vocational skills.
The province’s four key economic sub-regions will provide vocational training according to the demands of each sub-region, said the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The province’s Long Xuyen Quadrangle sub-region will focus on providing vocational training in aquaculture, cultivation, animal husbandry, fishing, seafood processing and boat engine repair.
The province’s Western sub-region near the Hau River will provide vocational training in seafood processing and other fields to meet recruitment demand for Thanh Loc and Vinh Hoa Hung industrial parks and Tac Cau fishing port.
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Ethnic Khmer laborers in Kien Giang province use grey sedge to make handicraft products. |
The sub-region will also focus on vocational training for rural laborers in fresh water aquaculture, animal and poultry husbandry, and fruit and high quality rice cultivation.
The U Minh Thuong sub-region will provide vocational training related to fish ports and post fishing logistics, rice-rotation cultivation models, and other aquatic species in rice fields, brackish-water and saltwater aquaculture, and animal husbandry.
Vocational training in island and coastal areas will focus on saltwater aquaculture, plant cultivation, animal husbandry, and training of ship captains, ship engine captains, fishermen and sailors.
Mai An Nhin, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said for vocational training in rural areas to be effective, the province will provide more consultations on vocational training and jobs.
Vocational trainees will have jobs in industrial parks and enterprises, or will start their own agricultural production, he said.
The province will also build vocational training curricula suited to the demand of each locality, invest in more equipment used for vocational training and call on investors to join hands.
It will also develop zoned industrial parks, industrial park clusters and its four key economic sub-regions, which will offer jobs for vocational trainees, he said.
The province’s vocational training programs have increased incomes for rural laborers in recent years.
In An Minh district, a poor district in the province, short-term vocational skill training courses have attracted many laborers and helped them find jobs.
The district has opened 16 short-term vocational training courses in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors this year. More than 75 percent of the trainees in the courses have found jobs, mostly in their localities, according to the district’s People’s Committee.
Kien Giang has also organized many efficient agricultural production models for rural laborers. They include breeding marble goby, turtles and snakes in An Minh District, breeding fish in floating cages in Kien Hai and Kien Luong districts, and planting pepper and high quality rice in Kien Luong district.
Laborers who plant pepper or high quality rice in Kien Luong district can earn an average income of VND 3-5 million (USD 128-213) a month.
Source: VNA