AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT, COMPOST HANDLING, DISEASE CONTROL AND FISHING SAILOR ARE THE FIRST ACTIONS.

The Department of agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Food has launched a training platform through the Internet in order to facilitate training in the agricultural sector and facilitate access to Agricultural Training Schools and Maritime Fishing Training Institutes for citizens., both from the Canary Islands and the rest of the world.

Through the Ministry's website, www.gobiernodecanarias.org/agricultura/cursos, It is possible to access it very easily and with a password, to courses aimed at the improvement and development of professionals in the agricultural and fishing sector.

The department makes several courses available to teachers and students, as well as a tutorial intended to explain certain steps within the application. In this way, it makes it easier for interested parties to access training., in many cases essential to develop your activity, regardless of where they are.

The first four courses, selected from among those that have had the greatest demand, They are management of the agricultural company, compost handling, disease control and fisherman sailor.

The latter, taught by the Maritime-Fishing Vocational Training Institutes, It has a waiting list of more than 400 people, and is necessary for the professional exercise of the activity.

Having this online platform will respond to a repeated request from fishermen from the seven Islands.

The aim is to facilitate access to these courses for those people, that for work reasons, distance from the centers and impossibility of being able to do them in person, they can take them from their homes, within an initiative that tends to modernize Schools and Institutes, adapting them to new technologies.