Monday, July 21, 2008

Trade Skills for the Boholano People

In planning an economic blueprint for the province of Bohol, we should not lose cognizance of the fact, that training more skilled tradesmen should be prioritized since this will ultimately minimize unemployment in the province. Eventually, the more skilled tradesmen we have the more people getting good opportunities for employment locally and overseas

Bohol Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas, should be congratulated since he came with an innovation of establishing a farm school in his town to train farmers which has ignited the interest of young people in his town. .

 This is something very innovative if only other towns and schools will start offering courses for educating our young people to become skilled tradesmen. Schools and even local government should utilize part of their financial resources to build and maintain training centers for skilled tradesmen.

 Maybe our universities in the province can offer three years courses in skilled trades,

 For dairy farmers, those who will graduate from the course. The Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the New Zealand government has a cattle training program, which enables the farmers to be trained and earn from milking operations of the cattle herds distributed to them A three-year training and experience in this program would qualify them for employment as a dairy farmers in New Zealand with a salary of NZ#34,000 per year. Some Davao provinces have already availed of this program. Before we forget, we must also train these farmers to learn and speak New Zealand

 English language. It is not hard to learn such language because there are already many tutorials diskettes available. New Zealand also welcomes female dairy farmers

 Our congressmen must either appropriate some of their pork barrel funds to provide for establishment of such schools. If education is provided and well-subsidized, then this will be okay. Students can afford the costs.  The congressmen can also sit down with TESDA and conceptualize these cattle-raising programs. Of course, these public officials or congressmen should have consultants to initiate such programs and make them into actual realities. It is only when we dream that we can produce and innovate results.

 The province cannot certainly remain impoverished and its residents are poor. We have a lot of unutilized resources. The only problem, nobody discovers them. - Bohol Sunday Post

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