Shinan-gun, Recruitment of New Students for the 12th Slow City Agriculture University

Training Strawberry Experts

Shinan-gun is recruiting new students for the 12th Slow City Agriculture University. (Photo by Shinan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Ki-woon] On the 21st, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will additionally recruit new students for the 12th Slow City Agricultural University strawberry course, aimed at training professional agricultural managers to lead regional agricultural development, until the 6th of next month.

The 12th Slow City Agricultural University will operate for one year from next month until December, targeting a total of 80 people across three courses (Marketing & Distribution, Eco-friendly Agriculture, Strawberry), with education conducted once a week over 20 sessions.

The Marketing & Distribution course will be operated in parallel with marketing utilization education for securing sales channels of agricultural products and consulting education for farms currently operating blogs. The Eco-friendly Agriculture course will be run as field-oriented education, including soil management by crop, pest and weed control, utilization of microbial materials, and practical manufacturing training.

The newly established Strawberry course, introduced for the first time in this Agricultural University, will systematically proceed from basic theory to field education with the goal of producing high-quality strawberries. Practical cultivation training will be organized at the management practice rental farm established in Palgeum-myeon, enabling trainees to immediately apply what they have learned in the field after completing the Agricultural University.

The additional recruitment for new students of the 12th Slow City Agricultural University plans to recruit 37 people, including the newly established Strawberry course and the Eco-friendly Agriculture course.

Applicants for the Agricultural University must be farmers residing in Sinan-gun and actively engaged in farming, and must submit an application form recommended by the head of the Agricultural Technology Center branch office in their town or township.

Now in its 12th term, the Slow City Agricultural University has produced 598 leading farmers through customized education focused on course selection and concentration since 2009.

In particular, as a result of continuously promoting the eco-friendly course, about 20 people have obtained organic farming technician certificates, and an eco-friendly research group has been formed to play a leading role in eco-friendly organic farming.

Park Woo-ryang, the mayor of Sinan-gun, said, “As farmers’ interest and willingness to learn increase every year, the quality of education is improving. With the opening of the Cheonsa Bridge and the establishment of online and offline sales networks, as well as an increase in farmers passionate about new income crops, we plan to continuously train elite farmers according to demand.”

Detailed recruitment guidelines are posted on the Sinan-gun Office and Sinan-gun Agricultural Technology Center websites.

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