KUANTAN: A complete of 50 of the 63 Bio-Agrotech and Bio-Pharmaceutical Career and Entrepreneurship (BeST 2.0) apprenticeship members have secured permanent jobs within the fields of trendy agriculture and bio-pharmaceuticals.
This implies that 79% of all who’ve participated within the programme run by the Malaysian Bioeconomy Development Corporation (Bioeconomy Corporation) are actually completely employed.
Speaking about this, Bioeconomy Corporation chief govt officer Mohd Khairul Fidzal Abdul Razak mentioned that BeST 2.0 may scale back youth unemployment amongst graduates who had issue discovering jobs and an revenue commensurate with their {qualifications}, particularly within the two fields.
He mentioned 39 out of 48 of the apprentices obtained jobs within the agriculture and aquaculture sector whereas 11 out of 15 within the bio-pharmaceutical subject, with each numbers exceeding the important thing efficiency indicator (KPI) targets set in 2021.
“We collaborated with non-public firms to produce graduates who’re expert, educated and have related work expertise within the industries whereas enabling firms to obtain a workforce that meets their necessities and have the required tutorial standards and {qualifications}.
“Through BeST 2.0, Bioeconomy Corporation not solely matches employers with the workforce, however we additionally wish to produce extremely expert, technologically literate, extremely motivated entrepreneurs and meet the wants of trendy trade,” he mentioned in a media assertion right here in the present day.
Mohd Khairul Fidzal mentioned trendy agriculture and bio-pharmaceuticals got precedence in BeST 2.0 as a result of these fields play an necessary position in guaranteeing meals security and public well being, particularly with the outbreak of COVID-19, moreover additionally involving the use of trendy know-how purposes.
BeST 2.0 can be seen as capable of enhance youth involvement within the trendy agriculture and bio-pharmaceutical industries in addition to scale back dependence on international labour in step with the federal government’s aspiration to provide a talented workforce of locals, particularly among the many youth.
The BeST 2.0 programme was accredited by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) below the twelfth Malaysia Plan (12MP) and is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (MAFI). – Bernama
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