"The notion of beginning a business, no matter how tiny, is valuable," says the Prime Minister

DNHN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made this point while visiting the Vietnam Academy of Agriculture's event "Startup and Innovation Journey and VNUA Job Day - 2022."

Minister of Agriculture Le Minh Hoan, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, and representatives of Central Government and Hanoi ministries, departments, and organizations were also present. The event drew 15,000 students, 120 firms and employers, 700 high school administrators, 3,000 high school students, and 1,300 Academy teachers in person and online.

Need a fresh take on entrepreneurship

From 2014 until the present, the Vietnam Academy of Agriculture has organized the Startup Competition agricultural innovation every year as part of the Government's Project 1665 on "Supporting Students to Start a Business Until 2025."

The competition drew over 2,500 start-up concepts from hundreds of universities, colleges, high schools, and municipalities, with over half of the projects created by Academy students. Businesses recruit for around 3,000-4,000 job openings at this event each year.

The Academy's 2022 "Start-up, Innovation Journey, and Job Day" event is an activity to improve the quality and effectiveness of training and scientific research; to provide career guidance for students, create job opportunities for students, to strengthen cooperation between schools and businesses under the motto of companionship and mutual development; and to serve as a bridge to help students contact, demonstrate their qualities and abilities, and to find job opportunities in the business world.

The Prime Minister and delegates saw models, scientific and technical products, and products of the Academy's and its partners' technology-starting firms, including products in science and technology medicines, fertilizers, ornamental organisms, decorative flowers, fungus, microalgae...

Speaking during the ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed the importance of agricultural growth in the country's socioeconomic development policy. Agriculture has been and will continue to be the backbone of the economy, helping to stabilize people's livelihoods.

The COVID-19 epidemic has impacted all facets of social life during the last two years. In that environment, the agricultural sector has proven to be the backbone of our economy and food security, and we have emerged as one of the world's major agricultural, forestry, and fisheries exporters, with a value of more than 48 billion USD in 2021.

Since the beginning, the Party and the State have prioritized the development of high-quality human resources for agriculture. The Vietnam Academy of Agriculture is the driving force behind the Agricultural Startup movement, working with farmers and their children to instil a love of entrepreneurship and the desire to work in agriculture.

Starting a business does not often start with fantastic ideas, but rather with worries and creative ways to handle everyday issues. The things that are most important to us, are the most intensive research and inventiveness. Even tiny company ideas are significant because they demonstrate the youthful generation's vibrancy, ingenuity, and drive to succeed. We require a fresh look at entrepreneurship.

"You have a young enthusiasm to start a business, but you also have a strong will and the guts to confront failure. Business managers require monetary and spiritual support to survive. The spirit of entrepreneurship must be vigorously encouraged and shared among students so that our country's agriculture may flourish more sustainably "The Prime Minister stressed this point.

According to the Prime Minister, by 2021, Vietnam would be ranked 44th out of 132 nations and economies in terms of global innovation, with over 1,000 organizations capable of assisting start-ups and 100% of training institutions having a strategy. Plan to help pupils who are just starting.

However, the number and quality of innovative start-up projects, businesses, organizations, and individuals are insufficient to meet the potential and expectations; the vast majority of enterprises are small and medium-sized, if not micro-sized, with insufficient capacity, resources, and human resources to support core technology research.

As a result, the assistance of renowned institutions is required, along with realistic strategies that combine firm production and economic operations with scientific research and technical growth.

 "Job Day" should become a bonding event.

The Prime Minister was very impressed by Job Day today, with nearly 100 businesses providing 3,000 job opportunities for students from the Academy and neighbouring schools. At the same time, teachers and students from 700 high schools are watching this event through bridge points, which is an opportunity to help orient their careers and inspire high school students to love agriculture more.

The Prime Minister stated that agriculture is considered an advantage of Vietnam and that entrepreneurship is an effective and practical way to promote agricultural development for schools and institutes that train human resources for the agricultural sector, as well as the Vietnam Academy of Agriculture. Agricultural start-ups must be linked to new rural buildings and specialized goods from each region.

According to the Prime Minister, "Job Day" must truly become a festival uniting instructors and students, schools and the business sector, and society; it is a crucial chance for graduates to meet employers, and to be a bridge to generate jobs for students.

Training and scientific research must be relevant to practice. To accomplish so, training techniques must be drastically transformed, learners must be placed at the centre of the training process, training must be linked to practice, and students must be encouraged to be entrepreneurial and innovative.

To expand the innovation ecosystem, it is vital to further encourage students' entrepreneurial spirit, to assist them to transform their thinking, awareness, daring to think, dare to do, and have high goals to make their ideas a reality. The Vietnam Academy of Agriculture must be an agricultural industry innovation hub, contributing to the resolution of both urgent and strategic challenges, as well as theoretical and practical concerns, in creating the future of Vietnamese agriculture.

The Prime Minister also requested that a creative teaching environment be created, as well as tight linkages between schools and companies, to provide students "space" to test their knowledge in addressing real-world challenges not just in the classroom, but also in business practice, in real life.

The Prime Minister underlined the importance of forming objectives and ideals for children and students, as well as equipping themselves with a wide range of professional knowledge, social knowledge, professional abilities, and life skills in an environment with an open and competitive job market.

The Prime Minister hopes and wishes that the students present today to find a job that matches their trained expertise, capacity, forte, and dream; I wish that the students of the Vietnam National Academy of Agriculture and the students from 700 high schools who are watching this event via media start their businesses successfully and make valuable contributions to the cause of construction and protection.

Businesses, according to the Prime Minister, must be the location to establish the theme for the educational problem. Businesses and entrepreneurs must closely connect, accompany, and further support higher education by actively participating in the training process from forecasting labour demand to signing training contracts and ordering training, developing output standards, content and structure of training programs, evaluating training quality, supporting innovation and scientific research incubator funds, supporting students, supporting talent development, and creating an environment for them to practice.

At the Prime Minister's request, state management agencies must investigate and resolve legal issues, establish circumstances for higher education institutions, research and development institutions, and support entrepreneurs. innovation industry.

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