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“Enriching” the spiritual life of farmers is the vocational education system from low to
to evoke them with a positive attitude and high levels, from fields to schools, from curricula
willingness to accept changes, to make them for learners to methods for lecturers, from the
clearly understand the power of “buying grassroots agricultural extension system to
together - selling together”, and the spirit a team of experts and scientists, from books
of “cooperation - association”, to actively and documents to newspapers, specialized
participate in collective economic models and communication channels for farmers. The
organizations with the core being cooperatives. solutions in the Strategy to educate farmers
“Enriching” the spiritual life of farmers is to help and build professional farmers include:
farmers always want to expand their community - Propagate and educate to renew
and actively create social relationships. thinking, unify awareness and action for
Farmers are familiar with their fields, gardens, target groups about the role of agriculture,
and commune. If they think out of the box, they farmers, and rural areas in the new period,
must go beyond their comfort zone and make and orientations of agriculture and rural
interaction with people living in surrounding development in the world (responsible,
communes, districts, and provinces. Then they ecological, green, organic, circular agriculture,
have opportunities to connect with scientists, etc.), changes in consumer demand in
experts, and businesses, to gain knowledge, the world. Develop training materials and
skills, advice, links, etc. programs for specific audiences.
To have professional agriculture, a team - Develop policies to support farmers to
of professional farmers must be involved. To access markets, capital sources, machinery,
have agriculture with high level of intellectual and advanced technology. Encourage
in an intellectual economy, farmers must be and have supportive policies for farmers in
intellectualized. To intellectualize farmers, specialized farming areas to participate in
many solutions must be provided: restructuring training programs with certificates for products

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