INFOTEP has agricultural curriculum offer

Produce food becomes increasingly a task requiring qualified technicians. In Dominican Republic, with the use of systems of production under controlled environment or greenhouses, the requirement for trained staff is major.

The National Institute of technical vocational training (Infotep) is able to offer the training required with the exception of higher level races. However, there is a problem to be solved: the agricultural producers are not always given to train its labour force, except in cases in which refers to production of high quality and vocation exporter.

As a document of Infotep, in which stands out the curriculum, offering agricultural sector consists of a series of short courses in many cases are pending demand.

Guandules grower, rice, maize, sorghum and beans, producer in greenhouses, chicken coop or conejero building, u000abreeder of pigs, goats, cattle, bees, birds and artificial insemination, as well as porcicultor and breeder of shrimp, are among the courses related to the agricultural sector as part of the offer of the institution technique.

For the director of the Infotep, Idionis Pérez, low demand for training on the part of the agricultural sector is explained in a combination of variables. He said that the Board of Directors has raised to see how was able to encourage agriculture to grow more demand for training technique.

, However, Perez stressed that "even though it now has a demand for a 4%, it makes two or three years was only 1%." "As strategy to encourage that demand we have made agreements with the Dominican Agroempresarial Board (JAD), the Agrarian Institute (IAD) and other public and private entities".

Stressed that agreements have also been extended to the National Institute of water resources (Indrhi) and the u000aMinistry of agriculture, thereby completing agreements with the main entities or actors in the sector agricultural.

Said that what is sought is training policies have the effect expected.

Although it admits it has not advanced much, said that since the Board of Directors approved the new policy to attract to the agricultural sector has been a growth of about three points percentage.

"I think that as this segment of the population Dominican of a special nature does not have the conviction that training should become the engine of national development, and therefore the demand is not so high." "The mass workers are most important in this sector, as we know,", explained.

To refer to the offer that has Infotep sector, explained that it is quite broad but as an institution are ready to meet any need that is detected in the field of training in the sector u000aagricultural.

Perez, who answered questions of LISTÍN DIARIO in an encounter with the press, highlighted the support that have given the media to the activities carried out by the Infotep.

In his opinion, the Dominican population should be optimistic about the immediate future, as more young people are prepared and integrate life labor.

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Representative SECTOR private in the entity
actions in consenso: Arturo Villanueva, representative of the business sector in the Board of Directors of the Infotep and Vice-President of the National Association of hotels and tourism (Asonahores), noted that Infotep is one of the entities of America works best where "tripartism", where is better respected and recognized the way in which is directed by Idionis Pérez.

To understand that the resource that receives the Infotep, mainly from workers and employers, are handled with great professionalism and transparency, at the time of u000aensure that the Council is jealous in the form in which are invested income.

Said that the Infotep gives equal treatment to all productive sectors although they do not make at the same rate, that institution has social partnership programmes, i.e., an obligation to return even to those sectors which have no presence with inputs, that is part of the work of the entity. Villanueva has 17 years in the institution.

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