Lefteris Avgenakis: Let’s direct 60,000 young Greeks to deal with our land

The cooperation framework with the American Agricultural School (AAS) was announced by the Minister of Rural Development and Food Lefteris Avgenakis, after his tour of the School’s facilities by the president Dr. Jeff Lansdale, Chancellor of Perrotis College Dr. Konstantinos Rotsio and researchers of the AGS

“First of all, we can cooperate on education issues by giving strong ‘weapons’, i.e. knowledge, to young people who consciously want to engage in the primary sector“, pointing out that “it is a priority to create at least 60,000 new jobs or to turn 60,000 young people to deal with our land”, the minister pointed out.

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The minister was given a tour of the School’s facilities and was informed about the operation of the laboratories and the new scientific methods they use.

As Mr. Avgenakis pointed out: “In difficult times due to natural disasters, our cooperation in the next period will be much stronger and closer. In collaboration with ELGO – DIMITRA, which in many places the objects are identical, we can strengthen it, because knowledge must be spread, it must be transmitted everywhere. The important thing is that the scientific staff, the entire AAS community, the president and the executives are all willing to channel what they know well, either in the training rooms or in their laboratories, to Greek producers. And this will be done through a close partnership that we will shape the framework in the coming days, working together with our executives.”

The cooperation

He then announced that there will be cooperation in the matter of the agricultural school of Messara, which is in the south of the prefecture of Heraklion, and in a second project, a corresponding school in the prefecture of Rethymno, which will deal with livestock.

And gradually this cooperation will evolve, since as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said: “The primary sector and above all the mentality that we have to change in the people who deal with the primary sector requires a lot of work and from many people. And there is no better thing than to work with people who have, already, given examples of quality, right training, right behavior, right operation, verticalization, holistic approach.

For his part, the president of the AGS, Dr. Jeff Lansdale, emphasized that he was happy to welcome the Minister of Rural Development with whom he discussed the opportunities for cooperation.