Clovis Community College launches Ag Systems Certificate Program inspired by farmworkers

There are 14 halfway skills students volition learn. That includes basal manus and powerfulness tools arsenic good arsenic basal instrumentality troubleshooting.

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis Community College is launching a caller programme inspired by farmworkers.

The people is aimed astatine keeping those employees competitive.

The caller AgTec Workforce programme is focused connected broadening vocation pathways.

"It's anyone who wants to conscionable elevate their skills and research caller careers successful agriculture, due to the fact that determination are many, galore careers successful agriculture," AgTec Instructor Juan Carlos Cervantes said.

Cervantes says the programme helps students maestro a wide scope of skills related to harvest accumulation systems, instrumentality operation, workplace effectiveness and integer literacy.

"Employers privation radical that tin nonstop emails, person emails, docket appointments," Cervantes said.

There are 14 halfway skills students volition learn.

That includes basal manus and powerfulness tools arsenic good arsenic basal instrumentality troubleshooting.

The materials are offered successful English and Spanish.

Students acceptable their ain pace.

It's a hybrid system, truthful students implicit classes online done speechmaking materials and videos.

Then, erstwhile they're acceptable to instrumentality an assessment, they'll docket a clip to conscionable with Cervantes.

The programme is escaped and erstwhile students maestro each of the skills, they volition person an Ag Systems Certificate.

Cervantes says he's already seen the affirmative interaction it tin person connected a student's vocation and hopes others volition instrumentality vantage of the program.

"We grow our horizons, truthful they're looking for enactment that they hadn't considered before, and they're upskilling and up earning, if you will," Cervantes said.

The AgTec programme volition beryllium taught astatine Clovis Community College's Herndon campus.

They are inactive accepting students, and the programme officially begins September 2.

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