Gifts are presented to policy beneficiaries as part of the launching ceremony.

Speaking at the ceremony, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Bui Quang Huy said the programme has been carried out over the past three years, under which young lecturers and students were sent to disadvantaged areas across the country to participate in agricultural restructuring.

Twenty-six teams of excellent lecturers and students transferred more than 30 agricultural production models opened 73 training courses on the application of new technologies in farming and farm produce processing for local farmers.

Based on the fruitful outcomes in the past three years, the programme’s scope of eligible participants has been expanded this year to promote a greater role of young people in the agro-forestry-fishery technological application, Huy added.

As planned, during this year’s the summer, provincial and municipal youth unions in collaboration with universities, and agricultural science institutes will establish 98 teams of volunteers to work in all 63 provinces and cities.

Source: NDO/VNA