Ulsan Agricultural Technology Center, 'Returning to Farming and Rural Areas' Blueberry Farming Training

Influx of Rural Population and Securing Agricultural Job Workforce

Blueberry cultivation experience education for urban residents preparing for return-to-farming and rural migration will be held in Ulsan.

The Ulsan Agricultural Technology Center (Director Shin Taeman) will conduct a blueberry fieldwork experience education at 10 a.m. on the 7th at a blueberry farm in Beomseo-eup, Ulju-gun (CEO Lee Samwoo).

This education was prepared to create agricultural job opportunities through the influx of return-to-farming and rural migrants into Ulsan and to resolve the shortage of rural labor.

The target participants are retirees in the Ulsan area, urban residents interested in return-to-farming and rural migration, and youth.

This session is the fourth education following the three sessions held in April, with about 20 participants receiving theoretical education and practical experience in blueberry harvesting work.

Scenes of farming and rural migration agricultural work experience education.

An official from the Agricultural Technology Center said, “We conduct combined group theoretical education and field practice education for returnees and job seekers by sector, and available manpower will be organized into a sectoral ‘rural manpower pool’ to be expanded into a ‘farm work internship project’ in the future.”

The return-to-farming and rural migration experience education plans to educate a total of 200 people over 10 sessions, with 20 people per session throughout the year.

In April, in connection with the rural manpower bank projects of local agricultural cooperatives and horticultural cooperatives, education on flower thinning and fruit thinning was conducted three times, mainly targeting pear farms in the Seosaeng area.

In this education process, after group theoretical education, individual training on work ability was conducted through agricultural work practice, personal checklists were created, and available manpower information was provided to local agricultural cooperatives and the horticultural cooperative rural manpower brokerage center.

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