This initiative aims to adapt the training offer to the needs of the labor market and to strengthen the employability of young people in the agricultural and agri-food sectors.
SKILLS : This project provides for the development of 15 apprenticeship training standards in the agricultural and para-agricultural sectors: 8 Professional Apprenticeship Certificate (CAP) level standards and 7 Professional Specialization Diploma (DSP) level standards, covering several professions linked to livestock breeding, crop production, crops under shelter and topography. It also includes the design of two professional qualification diploma (DQP) level training programs accompanied by their educational and assessment tools, intended for emerging professions in agriculture in a controlled environment (hydroponics, vertical agriculture) and horticulture.
The Ministry of Agriculture, through the Directorate of Education, Training and Research (DEFR), plans to develop fifteen training standards and two apprenticeship qualification programs, in accordance with the skills-based approach (APC). To achieve this, this department intends to be supported in this project. This initiative aims to adapt the training offer to the needs of the labor market and to strengthen the employability of young people in the agricultural and agri-food sectors. The project concerns the development of eight Professional Apprenticeship Certificate (CAP) level training standards, seven Professional Specialization Diploma (DSP) level standards as well as two Professional Qualification Diploma (DQP) level programs.
At the CAP level, the new standards will concern the professions of sheep breeding, rabbit breeding, the production and valorization of cumin, saffron and figs, as well as the installation of greenhouses, the management of nurseries and the maintenance of green spaces. For the DSP level, training will be oriented towards sectors with high added value such as fattening cattle breeding, dairy cattle breeding, citrus production, red fruit cultivation, phytosanitary treatment, crops under shelter and the profession of topographer assistant. In this sense, two professional qualification programs through apprenticeship will be developed at the DQP level. They will focus on agriculture in a controlled environment, in particular hydroponics and vertical farming, as well as horticulture. Indeed, the Generation Green 2020-2030 strategy attaches strategic importance to the development of human capital in rural areas. This orientation aims at the emergence of a new agricultural middle class, the strengthening of youth entrepreneurship and the improvement of employability in the agricultural and agri-food sectors.
Consistent with this vision, the employment roadmap adopted at the national level emphasizes the need to massively train young people in promising professions, through qualifying, professionalizing paths anchored in the realities on the ground. One of the priority levers of this roadmap is the development of apprenticeship training, considered as an effective response to linking training and socio-professional integration. In this dynamic, the DEFR continues the restructuring and diversification of its agricultural professional training offer, relying on the skills-based approach (APC), which makes it possible to align programs with the concrete needs of the market, by mobilizing professionals from the design of training programs.
The project to restructure and diversify the FPA offer is one of the priority projects of the agricultural vocational training roadmap, which aims to strengthen the training system for better employability of young people in the agriculture and agri-food sectors and the expansion of the skills-based approach (APC) in all agricultural vocational training establishments. The adoption of the skills-based approach (APC) as an approach to engineering training systems appears to be the best response to upgrade and improve the professional qualifications of young people in order to optimize their socio-professional integration.
