Community Agriculture Assistant is a three months (390 hours) course designed to produce lower level technical workforce equipped with knowledge and skills related to agriculture production and management occupation. It makes the trainees able to get opportunities for wage and self-employment in the related occupational field.
The course provides skills & knowledge necessary for community agriculture assistant. There will be both demonstration by instructors/trainers and opportunity by trainees to perform skills/tasks specified in this curriculum. Trainees will practice & learn skills using typical tools, materials, equipment & machines necessary for the program.
Aim:
To produce lower level agriculture workers (community agriculture assistants) able to provide agriculture services in the community being an entrepreneur/employee/self employed.
Objectives:
After the completion of the training program, the trainees will be able:
- To be familiar with agriculture production/management
- To be familiar with social mobilization
- To manage nursery, fertilizer, and pesticides
- To produce vegetable, fruits, ornamental, cereal, pulses, and cash crops / seeds
- To carry out sericulture, beekeeping, fish farming, and duck farming
- To market agricultural products
- To communicate with others and
- To be familiar with entrepreneur development
Salient Features
Duration: The total duration of this curricular program will be 390 hours [ three months ]
Target group: All interested individuals in the field of agriculture with educational prerequisite of class eight pass.
Group size: Maximum of thirty
Target location: The target location of this training program will be all over Nepal.
Medium of Instruction: The medium of instruction for this training program will be Nepali or English or both.
Pattern of attendance: The trainees should have 80% attendance in theory classes and 90% in Practical (Performance) to be eligible for internal assessment and final examinations.
Focus of the program: This curriculum emphasizes on competency /performance. 80% time is allocated for performance and only 20% for related technical knowledge. So the focus will be on performance of the specified competencies in the curriculum.
Follow up suggestion: In other to assess the success of this program and collect feedbacks/inputs for the revision of the program, a schedule of follow up is suggested as follows:-
- First follow up: - Six months after the completion of the training program.
- Second follow up: - Six months after the completion of the first follow up.
- Follow up cycle: - In a cycle of one year after the completion of second follow up for five years
Grading:
- Distinction: passed with 80% or above
- First division: passed with 75% or above
- Second division: passed with 65% or above
- Third division: passed with 60% or above
Certificate requirement: The related training institute will provide the certificate of "Community Agriculture Assistant". Again, individuals who complete module (s) of the curriculum will receive a certificate of completion of the particular module(s).
Eligibility
Entry criteria
- Minimum of eight class pass or equivalent
- Minimum of 14 years of age
- Should pass entrance examination
Job Prospects
After successful completion of this program the trainees will be equipped with the knowledge and skills related to social mobilization; nursery, fertilizer, and pesticide management; vegetable, fruits, ornamental, cereal, pulses, and cash crops / seed production; sericulture, beekeeping, fish farming, and duck farming; agriculture product marketing; communication; and entrepreneur development.
Curricular Structure
Modules and Sub Modules
Module:1: Introductory agriculture & social mobilization
Sub-module:1: Introduction to agriculture
Sub-module:2: Social mobilization
Module:2: Nursery, fertilizer and pesticide management
Sub-module:1: Nursery management
Sub-module:2: Fertilizer management
Sub-module:3: Pesticide management
Module:3: Horticulture, cereal, pulse, cash crops and seed production
Sub-module:1: Vegetable production
Sub-module:2: Fruit production
Sub-module:3: Ornamental plant production
Sub-module:4: Cereal, pulses, and cash crops production
Sub-module:5: Seed production
Module:4: Sericulture, beekeeping, fish and duck farming
Sub-module:1: Sericulture
Sub-module:2: Beekeeping
Sub-module:3: Fish farming
Sub-module:4: Duck farming
Module:5: Marketing, communication and entrepreneur development
Sub-module:1: Agricultural product marketing
Sub-module:2: Communication
Sub-module:3: Entrepreneur development