A two-member team led by Shun Suzuki, president of Association for Promotion of Asian Rural Development (APARD) -- an organization involved in exchanging trainee workers -- visited different agriculture farms in Makawanpur, Chitwan and Pokhara and interacted with local farmers to acquire firsthand information about the prospect of importing trainee workers from agriculture sector of Nepal in Japanese farms.[break]
After the visit, members of the team said they were impressed with Nepali farmers´ interest to work in Japan as trainee workers to further hone their knowledge in different sub-sector of the agriculture sector.
“During our three-day visit to different agriculture farms, we found that Nepali workers can easily work in Japanese agriculture sector in areas like poultry, pig farming, floriculture, fishery and vegetable farms,” Suzuki, who is also a professor of agriculture at Tokyo University.
APARD has been involved in exchanging trainee workers between Japan and other countries for the last five decades.
“We have already picked 14,000 trainees from the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand in the last 25 years. We came here to study the possibility of taking Nepali trainees in Japanese farms as farm products and climatic condition in Japan and Nepal is similar,” Sukuki said. He further added that about 32,000 foreign workers are working as farm trainees in Japan.
The team will submit its report to the Agriculture Ministry of Japan.
Hansa Raj Wagle, vice-president of Nepal Association of Foreign Employment (NAFEA), said positive response on the potentials of Nepali trainers would increase the prospect of the trainees to work in Japan.
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