The training Program for Modern Young Farmers was launched and implemented.

SciDev.Net learned from the "2015 Farmer training Program Management training course and National Agricultural Radio and Television School work Seminar" that starting from this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Youth League, will launch the implementation of the "Modern Young Farmer training Plan", with a plan to select 10,000 modern young farmers aged 45 each year to train them as young farmers and inject fresh blood into the development of modern agriculture. This is also a new initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture in the training of new professional farmers in 2015.

According to the person in charge of the Science and Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, the "training Program for Modern Young Farmers" aims to attract and support rural young people to start their own businesses. According to the requirements of the program, the selected training targets are large farmers aged 45 years old, family farm operators, backbone of farmers' professional cooperatives, returning entrepreneurial college students, secondary and higher vocational graduates, returning migrant workers and veterans, with a training period of 3 years. The training contents include professional accomplishment, entrepreneurial ability, policies and regulations, industrial development and case teaching. The ultimate goal is to create a team of young farmers with strong entrepreneurial ability, high skill level and leading role through training and guidance, entrepreneurial incubation, identification management, policy support and tracking services.

In addition to launching the "training Program for Modern Young Farmers", in the specific work, each demonstration area will aim at the cultivation system of "trinity, three types of coordination, and three levels of integration", with the cultivation of professional farmers of production and management as the main task, giving consideration to the training of professional farmers of professional skills and social services, and giving full play to the role of demonstration. Among them, in the requirements of cultivating social service-oriented professional farmers, this year also highlighted the training of rural e-commerce workers.