Around 400 Filipino students will graduate in 2022 as a result of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority’s (Tesda) agricultural study collaboration with Israel.
“The 400 hundred students are almost all in Israel by now. They will return probably next August or September,” Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss said.
Israel has been spreading the program to the Philippines and other nations through Agrostudies, Israel’s International Center for Agricultural Interns.
Between 2006 and 2016, 6,000 Filipino students from the country’s 27 state colleges and universities benefited from the initiative.
Around 400 students will learn more about modernized agriculture this year as part of an Agrostudies training program, according to the ambassador.
Tesda’s involvement in this program is governed by a Memorandum of Understanding signed between Tesda and Agrostudies on December 16, 2020, as well as a Memorandum of Agreement signed by Tesda and seven collaborating state universities and colleges (SUCs) on December 22, 2020.
Its goal is to expose Filipino students and trainees to innovative agricultural technology, as well as to improve their agricultural and agribusiness abilities.
The curriculum consists of both theoretical and practical work with Israeli farmers.
“The idea is for the young farmers to learn innovative approaches and technologies. To adopt best practices and basically experience commercial farming. I believe that the most important thing is to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming,” Fluss said.
With additional report: manilatimes
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