100 Nepalis selected to participate in Learn and Earn Programme in Israel

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, June 3: A hundred students from Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) in Rampur, Chitwan, have been selected for the Learn and Earn Programme in Israel.

 Dr. Yuval Kaye, Director of the Ramat Negev International Training Center for Advanced Agriculture and Alon Melchior visited Chitwan to hold interviews at the Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) in Rampur. The interviews were conducted in the presence of Prof. Dr. Punya Prasad Regmi, Vice-Chancellor, AFU and Israeli Ambassador Hanan Goder. Applicants selected from the lottery were interviewed and among them, 100 candidates were chosen for the “Learn & Earn Program” in The Ramat Negev International Training Center for Advanced Agriculture in Israel, read a press release of the Embassy of Israel.

"This program is a theory and practical combined project. The training consists of one full day of theoretical study at the college and five full-day practical work. Salaries of Nepali participants will be according to Israeli standards. The students were selected through lottery and interviews. Upon returning from the extensive training of 11 months, the students will share their knowledge, apply modern technology and learn skills from Israel with their families and fellow farmers in Nepal".

The Embassy wishes them good luck on their journey and believes that they will come back with new skills and enthusiasm to devote their future to the agriculture sector. 

While on the visit, Ambassador Hanan Goder had a meeting with Renu Dahal, Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City today and discussed cooperation in the agricultural sector and other mutually-interested matters.

According to the Embassy, more than 3,000 Nepalese have participated in the “Learn and Earn Program” since it started in the year 2013. Many of them have applied modern farming all over Nepal.