Within the framework of the “Modernizing Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture in Armenia (MAVETA) project, on April 7, a visit of a group of schoolchildren from Griboyedov Secondary School in Armavir region to the almond orchards of Vanand Agro was organized.
During the visit, Lilit Beglaryan, VET consultant for the MAVETA project, presented the MAVETA project and the orchard workers/nut farmers profession introduced at the Echmiadzin Craftsman State School through dual education, and emphasized the school-employer cooperation.
In his speech, the orchard manager and instructor Hayk Stepanyan, emphasized the demand for specialists working in almond and fruit orchards in the labor market, the organization of practical work in the orchard for apprentices studying with dual, as well as underscored the almond cultivation processes and the peculiarities of orchard management.
In the garden, first-year students studying orchard workers/nut farmers profession at the Anton Kochinyan Agricultural College of the Armenian National University of Agriculture through dual education, under the guidance of the lecturer, Eteri Stepanyan, carried out practical work, participating in tree planting.
The MAVETA project is funded by a broad coalition of international and local organizations led by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), including the Austrian Development Agency, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Government of Armenia, the HEKS/EPER NGO, Izmirlian Foundation, the Strategic Development Agency (SDA) NGO and Vanand Agro CJSC.
The project’s implementing partners are the GIZ and HEKS/EPER with the involvement of SDA and the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (HAFL).