Icheon Agricultural Life College, Recruiting New Students

Recruiting 125 Participants for 4 Courses Until February 2

The Agricultural Technology Center of Icheon City, Gyeonggi Province, is recruiting new students for the 2024 academic year at Icheon Agricultural Life University to train professional farmers and support the stable settlement of returnees to farming and rural areas.

The number of recruits is ▲ 25 for the Young CEO Department ▲ 40 for the Life Agriculture Department ▲ 30 for the Eco-friendly Agriculture Department ▲ 30 for the Future Agriculture Department.

Education by course includes ▲ Young CEO Department: agricultural management strategy education and advanced marketing education ▲ Life Agriculture Department: basic farming cultivation technology education for returnees to farming and rural areas and urban residents ▲ Eco-friendly Agriculture Department: specialized farming technology education for eco-friendly agriculture ▲ Future Agriculture Department: education on subtropical crops and new income crops cultivation technology in response to climate change, smart agriculture, healing agriculture, and more.

Anyone residing in Icheon City and interested in the agricultural field can apply. However, the Young CEO Department is open to young farmers aged 18 to 45, and the Life Agriculture Department also accepts applicants who plan to return to farming and rural areas in Icheon City.

Application forms are distributed on the Icheon City Hall website, the Agricultural Technology Center website, and at each eup, myeon, and dong office. Applications must be submitted by visiting the Agricultural Technology Center by February 2. Final successful candidates will be selected through a first round of document screening and a second round of interviews.

Jung Hyun-sook, head of the Agricultural Promotion Division at the Icheon Agricultural Technology Center, said, "We will train professional farmers equipped with agricultural management and scientific farming practice skills through systematic mid- to long-term technology education by item."

Meanwhile, Icheon Agricultural Life University, established in 2008, has produced 1,468 graduates to date.

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