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Agricultural engineers, workers to receive training on Jordan Valley farms

‘900 agricultural engineers graduate from universities every year’

By Hana Namrouqa - Oct 12,2016 - Last updated at Oct 12,2016

Workers pick dates at a palm tree farm in the Jordan Valley’s Karamah town on Monday (Photo by Khaled Oudat)

AMMAN — Farms and agricultural companies in the Jordan Valley will start training agricultural engineers and workers for employment opportunities in November, a unionist said on Wednesday.

The training and employment programme, starting on November 1, will be held by the Jordan Agricultural Engineers Association (JAEA) and the Employment – Technical and Vocational Education and Training Fund.

“The participants will undergo training in the Jordan Valley for five months, during which they will receive scientific and agricultural education and training at farms and agricultural stations,” a JAEA official told The Jordan Times.

The second training programme will start in August next year, the unionist said, highlighting that a total of 100 agricultural engineers and workers will be trained in each session.

“The trainees will be paid a salary of JD300 during the training period. Half of the salary will be paid by the association and the fund, while the other half will be paid by the training farm, company or station,” the official noted.

The association signed contracts with the agricultural companies and farms to ensure that the employees are trained and then employed, he said, adding that 75 farms and agricultural companies in the Jordan Valley are taking part.

“This is the first time that the association holds an employment training programme for its members. It seeks to secure training that ends in job opportunities for fresh graduates and to further educate and qualify those who have been working in the field but didn’t receive an education,” the official said.

A total of 900 agricultural engineers graduate from universities every year, some 70 per cent of whom are females, according to the JAEA, which has 19,721 registered members.

 

“Agricultural engineers face difficulties in finding training and employment opportunities, especially fresh graduates,” the official said, adding that the association does not have figures of how many agricultural engineers are unemployed. 

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