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The Ministry of Agriculture is building a comprehensive system for training specialists in the industry. From agricultural classes to higher education institutions, they plan to address the shortage of workforce. This was announced by the head of the department, Oksana Luth, during parliamentary hearings.
She informed that activities related to educational processes and workforce preparation for agriculture are currently underway. This training is called "seamless," meaning it is continuous and starts from agricultural classes. Special attention is paid to agrotechnological classes. The Minister noted that this year the Ministry of Education is expected to adopt standards for such classes.
Within the federal project "Personnel for the agricultural sector," it is planned to organize 198 thousand such classes across the country by 2030. The program will be particularly extensive in rural areas. Although urban schools also participate, the Minister said that the competition with urban students is very high. "Rural schools are our priority, these are the children we need to work with," she added.
The training system also includes secondary and higher education institutions, with the main customer being the business sector. "We must focus on the business sector, its tasks, and requirements for specialist training," emphasized Luth.
Speaking about training scientific personnel, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture mentioned "the problematic situation with postgraduate studies." She noted that the percentage of postgraduates who become candidates of sciences and are capable of creating technological developments for agriculture is very low. She said, "Currently, we do not have this work properly organized. People do not understand why they should pursue postgraduate studies and what they should create. This is an ideology issue. We have wasted time on this, but now we are restoring it. Universities need to work on the ideology of our students and how they can contribute to the industry and create new technologies."
According to the organizers of the hearings - the State Duma Committee on Agricultural Issues, the shortage of workforce in agriculture exceeds 200 thousand people. The Committee's chairman, Vladimir Kashin, believes that providing the industry with personnel largely depends on the living conditions in rural areas. He said, "The conditions for normal development and life of the rural population are unacceptable."
For example, only 4% of rural settlements in the Far East have gas supply, in the Siberian region this figure is 9%, and in the North-Western region - 20%. "We do not know where to put the gas, while our rural population lives in such conditions," Kashin said.
However, the chairman of the committee noted that the "philosophy regarding living conditions in rural areas" is changing for the better. He said, "I feel that there is a slowdown in all the changes, so that they proceed slowly. For instance, the comprehensive rural development program. Why wasn't it financed according to the initial passport from the very beginning? It solves all the problems related to the negative trends we are talking about. This year, funding was increased by more than two times, but it is just nearly twice less than initially planned."
He stated that over the past five years, the rural population has decreased by 700 thousand people.
