The Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi, received on Tuesday (10) a group of 75 national trainers returning from Brazil, as part of an exchange of experiences and professional training, the Agência de Informação de Moçambique reported.
According to the organisation, the trainees are teaching agricultural and livestock courses in Mozambique. In Brazil, the same trainees benefited from an exchange of experiences and training in soil analysis, agricultural mechanisation, irrigation systems, teaching methodologies, vocational certificates, drip irrigation systems, sprinkling and the use of cow urine to improve plant germination.
On the occasion, the President of the Republic said that the country has the capacity to do much more, pointing to the Manica Private Institute, which produces milk and cheese, as an example. ‘I’m sure that this is possible in Mozambique. In three years we can train people who know how to do things,’ he said, and then explained that one of the Executive’s objectives in creating the vocational training institutes is to make them autonomous.
At the meeting, Filipe Nyusi asked the trainers if the young Brazilians practised agriculture or if it was just an activity for old people. In response, one of the trainers clarified: ‘They already come from a family background, as they have parents who are farmers and ranchers.’
Mety Gondola, secretary of the State Secretariat for Employment and Vocational Training (SEJE), stressed that between 2017 and 2018, around 60 trainers benefited from training in the area of agriculture and livestock, in addition to another 61 who were trained in the speciality of construction.
‘Of this group of 75 trainers, 26 are female. We continue to encourage the participation of women and in this process we have the support of Brazil and the World Bank,’ said Gondola.
These training programmes are aimed at improving technical capacity and strengthening the teaching and learning environment in Mozambique’s technical and vocational training institutes.