Today, January 14 th, 2019, the AgroGeneration Headquarters is awarding the finalists of the 4 th All-Ukrainian competition “Best agrarian practice 2018”
Student of the Zhytomyr Agro-technical College Andriy Bezverkhyi won the contest. As a gift, he received Apple’s tablet from the main partner – the company AgriLab and a set of books on agriculture from the publication Agroexpert.
“More than 250 thousand students study at agrarian universities. At the same time, a catastrophic staff problem is noted in agribusiness. The level of training graduates doesn’t correspond to the current realities of agribusiness, the requirements for agricultural production, science and the development of innovation – and this fact. On a global scale, we need to improve education and, in particular, science according to the modern world level of agronomy and technology development, which is already ahead for decades,”- said Iaroslav Boiko, CEO of AgriLab.
The Association “Ukrainian Agribusiness Club” (UCAB) provided a gift certificate of UAH 5,000 for the development of Ivan Dimchin from the Vinnytsia National Agrarian University and Serhiy Plis from Novochortoriysky State Agrarian Technical College.
“The contest” Best Agricultural Practice” reveals the potential of our students not only from the viewpoint of passing practical training directly on the production of agricultural products, but also revealing personal soft skills and their own capabilities in the preparation of a 3-minute video. Since the last years, we know that the winners of this competition were able to get a job for leading agro companies, participated in international conferences, received certificates and valuable gifts “, – says Olena Kovtun, Deputy of General Director of the UCAB on Association for Cooperation with Agrarian Higher Educational Institutions and Research Institutions .
DroneUA has provided certificates for training on the specialty “UAV operator” with the possibility of further employment for Igor Danchuk from the Borshchiv Agricultural College, Eugeniy Braga from the Kharkiv National Agrarian University. of V. Dokuchaev and Andriy Bezverhoy from Zhytomyr Agrotechnical College.
“Every day, more and more innovations appear in agriculture all over the world. But it’s not enough to hear only about them -, you need to be able to use them. And students must know and understand them in the first of all, because in a few years they will be those people who will apply these technologies in practice,”- says DroneUA, CEO Valery Iakovenko.
The company “KVS-UKRAINE” provided the opportunity for Danil Chemerys from the Mohyliv-Podilsky Technological and Economic College, Mykola Grunenko from the Sectoral Unit “Slavic Technical College of the Lugansk National Agrarian University” and Igor Danchuk from the Borshchiv Agro-Technical College to practice at a complex for the conditioning of corn seeds in Kamyanets-Podilskyi city.
“Contest helps students to set the right vectors of the movement and provides an opportunity to communicate with their potential employer. The employer can see young and prospective students – candidates for work “, – says Alexandr Prus, The Head of seed production at “KVS-UKRAINE “.
All finalists of the competition were grateful for the participation and presentation of creative ideas in the competition.
“Analyzing the agrarian labor market, we see that the business is ready to pay decent salary even to junior professionals, if they know their profession. But in order to have a good knowledge of their specialty, students need to have a proper practical knowledge base during their studies “, – says Tetyana Ishchenko, Director of the NMC “Agro-Education”.
For reference:
In 2018, the editorial staff of AgroPortal.ua received 125 video applications from 35 agrarian educational institutions of all levels of accreditation. The most active were students of the Company’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Nikolayev National Agrarian University, Borshchiv Agro-technical College, Kharkiv National Agrarian University of V.Dokuchaev and Vinnitsa National Agrarian University.
The main partner of the competition was AgriLab. The competition also supported DroneUA and KVS-UKRAINE, the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB) and the NMC “Agro-Education”.
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