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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 WITH HUMAN RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT OF THAI NGUYEN HIGH-TECH AGRICULTURE
Pham Thi Minh Nguyet*, Duong Thu Ha
Nong Thi Phuong Thu, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tham
Thai Nguyen College of Economics and Finance
ABSTRACT
Development of high-tech agriculture is an inevitable trend of agricultural production in Vietnam
in generally and Thai Nguyen province in particularly. Thai Nguyen is the central province of the
Northern Midlands and Mountain, Thai Nguyen has abundant natural conditions and natural
resources for economic development, especially, the development of agriculture. However, for
Thai Nguyen agriculture sector to develop sustainably, in addition to scientific and technological
progress, Human resources as capable of applying scientific and technological achievements in
agricultural production are an important factor. The article reviews the general situation of human
resources in Thai Nguyen. The article proposes some solutions to increase the number and
improve the quality of human resources towards developing high-tech agriculture.
Keywords: Human resources; High-tech agriculture; Human resources in agriculture; Thai
Nguyen province; Industrial revolution 4.0.
Received: 01/6/2019; Revised: 09/6/2019; Approved: 14/6/2019
CUỘC CÁCH MẠNG CÔNG NGHIỆP 4.0 VỚI PHÁT TRIỂN
NHÂN LỰC NÔNG NGHIỆP CÔNG NGHỆ CAO TỈNH THÁI NGUYÊN
Phạm Thị Minh Nguyệt*, Dương Thu Hà
Nông Thị Phương Thu, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Thắm
Trường Cao đẳng Kinh tế - Tài chính Thái Nguyên
TÓM TẮT
Phát triển ngành nông nghiệp công nghệ cao là xu thế tất yếu của sản xuất nông nghiệp Việt Nam
nói chung và của tỉnh Thái Nguyên nói riêng. Thái Nguyên là tỉnh trung tâm của vùng Trung du và
Miền núi phía Bắc, có điều kiện tự nhiên và tài nguyên thiên nhiên phong phú để phát triển kinh
tế, đặc biệt là phát triển ngành nông nghiệp. Tuy nhiên, để ngành này phát triển bền vững, ngoài
tiến bộ khoa học công nghệ thì nguồn nhân lực đủ khả năng ứng dụng thành tựu khoa học công
nghệ vào sản xuất nông nghiệp là một yếu tố quan trọng. Bài viết đánh giá chung về thực trạng
nguồn nhân lực ở Thái Nguyên và đề xuất một số giải pháp để tăng số lượng và nâng cao chất
lượng nguồn nhân lực hướng tới phát triển nông nghiệp công nghệ cao.
Từ khóa: nhân lực; nông nghiệp công nghệ cao; nhân lực nông nghiệp; tỉnh Thái Nguyên; cuộc
cách mạng công nghiệp 4.0.
Ngày nhận bài: 01/6/2019; Ngày hoàn thiện: 09/6/2019; Ngày duyệt đăng: 14/6/2019
*
Corresponding author. Email: phamminhnguyetkttctn@gmail.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34238/tnu-jst.2019.06.1623
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1. Introduction
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing
profoundly economic and social life, including
agriculture. Accessing and applying high-tech
scientific achievements requires Vietnam to
vigorously renew the human resource training
programs in the direction of the social need,
moreover, innovating content and creating
methods, enhancing comprehensiveness and
association.
Development of high-tech agriculture is an
inevitable trend of agricultural production in
Vietnam in generally and Thai Nguyen
agricultural sector in particularly. Thai
Nguyen is the center of the Northern
Midlands and Mountains region of Vietnam,
which has abundant natural conditions and
natural resources for economic development,
especially as agricultural development.
However, for developing sustainably, in
addition to scientific and technological
progress, human resources that are capable of
applying scientific
and
technological
achievements into agricultural production
have become an important factor.
With the pervasiveness of industrial
revolution 4.0, high-tech agricultural human
resources in high-tech agricultural becomes a
productive force with deep expertise in
applied research and transfer skills;
management professional; capacity to receive
and mastering technology for application and
production development. Training and
improving the quality of human resources in
agriculture are important for agricultural
development as well as for the development
of the entire economy. In response to the
needs of the new economic trend, with the
importance of labor resources, important
production forces of society, the authors
carried out analysis methodology that is the
secondary data collected method. The study
used Thai Nguyen Statistical Yearbook from
2013 to 2018, the other related reports and
summaries of Thai Nguyen Provincial
Committee, specialized state’s departments in
Thai Nguyen, reports of Vietnam General
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Statistics Office and so on, assessing the
actual situation of high-tech agricultural
human
resources
in Thai
Nguyen.
Thenceforth, the authors proposed a number
of solutions to improve the quantity and
quality of human resources towards high-tech
agricultural development before industrial
revolution 4.0.
2. High-tech agricultural human resources
in industrial revolution 4.0
2.1. Industrial revolution 4.0
According to Mr. Klaus Schwab, Chairman of
the World Economic Forum, Industrial
revolution 4.0 is a term that includes a variety
of modern automation technologies, data
exchange and manufacturing along with
physical systems in cyberspace, Internet of
things (IoT) and internet of services (IoS).
Industrial revolution 4.0 is based on digital
technology platform and integrates all
intelligent technologies to optimize processes
and production methods; emphasizing the
technologies that are and will have the biggest
impact are virtual technology, biotechnology,
new material technology, automation
technology, robots... Industrial revolution 4.0
based on internet connect usage, everything to
transform the entire real world into a digital
world. This revolution has a strong impact on
the world and all economic sectors with the
unprecedented breakthrough technology,
including breakthrough in the agricultural
sector. Vietnam is deeply integrated into the
world economy; Vietnam economy is
developing with a high proportion of
agriculture, will be deeply affected by this
global revolution.
Figure 1. History of industrial revolution 4.0
High-tech agriculture
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According to the Department of Science and
Technology - Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development, high-tech agriculture is
an application of new technologies in
agriculture production. Such technologies
include automation, mechanization of
agricultural
production,
information
technology, new material technology,
biotechnology, livestock breeds, new crops
with high productivity and high quality,
sustainable development on the basis of
organic
farming.
Moreover,
existing
approaches in agricultural supply chains try to
take benefit of recent technologies related to
the digitalization era, such as precision
farming, which makes use of positioning
technologies combined with the application of
extra sensors and the collected data increasing
the yield [1].
High-tech agriculture has the following basic
characteristics: Firstly, large investment, large
payback, knowledge-intensive applications
(such as the application of biotechnology
need to apply knowledge: mathematics,
agronomy, botany, microbiology, genetics,
molecular biology...). Second, the market of
high-tech agriculture focuses mainly on a few
large companies due to the large capital
required to apply modern scientific advances.
Third, the model of building new agricultural
enterprises, mainly focuses on areas such as
creating new breeds through genetic
engineering, genetic engineering, using new
techniques in breeding, automated breeding
process and strictly controlled...
The mission of high-tech agriculture is
materials creation; Using machinery and
equipment in agriculture; Selecting, creating
and propagating plants and animals for high
productivity and quality; High effective
cultivation and breeding; Prevention and
eradication of diseases in plants and animals;
Preserving and processing agricultural
products; Developing high-tech services for
agriculture; Developing agricultural with
applying technology. Thus, the ultimate goal
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of the development of high-tech agriculture is
to resolve the conflict between low agricultural
productivity, low quality products, high labor
cost, low economic efficiency, and pressure of
using
scientific
and
technological
achievements to ensure stable agricultural
growth with high productivity, high quantity,
efficiency and quality. The best of
coordination implementation between people
and resources, making the advantages of
sources achieve the greatest efficiency,
harmony and unification of social, economic
and ecological environmental benefits.
2.2. Human resources in high-tech agriculture
Human resources for agriculture include the
labor force in agriculture in use and labor
force for agriculture. The process of creating
a healthy physical and mental labor force,
achieving a high level of education,
vocational training, lifestyle and behavior that
accords with the development requirements of
the agricultural and high technological
industry. Human resources in the high-tech
agricultural sector require labor to be trained
in agriculture, with a high level of knowledge
and skills, applied and transfer research,
professional skills and management skills, the
ability to receive and master the technology to
apply and develop into practical production
with the development requirements of hightech agriculture. The State needs attract
talented and skilled collaborators who bring
to the table a problem-solving mentality. To
achieve the goal a target, governments should
look for the best talent to contribute to the
program. The best talent will not come easily
and competition is strong. Differentiating in
your attraction plan is key: Provide high
quality job opportunities; Communicate your
intentions to show global experts see it is a
unique global opportunity that will have a
global impact [2].
3. Actual situation of high-tech agricultural
human resources in Thai Nguyen province
In 2010, the Government approved the project
of developing high-tech applied agriculture
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by 2020. The project has the goal of building
comprehensive development agriculture in the
direction of modernization, producing large
and production with high quality, efficiency
and competitiveness, achieving a growth rate
of over 3.5% per year, ensuring national food
security both immediate, medium- term and
in the long-term.
After having the High Technology Law, the
Prime Minister issued Decision No. 1895 /
QD-TTg dated 17th December 2012
approving the program of high technology
application in agriculture [3]. In April 2015,
the Prime Minister issued Decision No.
575/QD-TTg approving the master plan of
high-tech agricultural zones and zones by
2020. The decision is clear that “the coffee
high-tech
production
regions
are
concentrated in the Central Highlands,
Northwest and North Central regions. Hightech tea production areas are concentrated
in Thai Nguyen and Lam Dong. Areas of
high-tech dragon fruit production are
concentrated in Binh Thuan” [4].
3.1. Achievements in high-tech agriculture
in Thai Nguyen province
Thai Nguyen agriculture sector after more
than 10 years of implementing the Program of
Action in the whole Party Committee on
agriculture, farmers and rural areas, has
basically had large change, average income of
people rural areas reached 33.84 million
VND/person/ year, increased 4 times
compared to 2008, the rate of trained workers
reached 62.78%. The value of agricultural
products per one ha of cultivated land reached
91.4 million VND, the rate of rural people
using clean water reached 89%. Total added
value of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in
2017 reached VND 7,231 billion (an increase
of VND 2,899 billion compared to 2008); The
value of agricultural production in 2017 was
VND 12,515 billion (an increase of VND
5,656 billion compared to 2008).
In the field of cultivation, in recent years,
many farmers in the province have actively
applied many scientific and technological
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advances to use high-tech into production.
Initially, the province has established a
number of safe vegetable and fruit production
areas. The investment in building cold houses
to preserve flowers in large areas of flowergrowing areas of the province such as Huong
Thuong (Dong Hy) and Tuc Duyen (Thai
Nguyen). With cold houses, flower farmers no
longer have difficulties related to the weather
or are worry about early blooming flowers,
quickly decaying, losing value... Phu Gia Dai
Tu's high-tech mushroom production and
medicinal mushroom models have produced
Export products. The model is giving high
economic efficiency to grow pepper banana by
growing in a culture medium method at Gia
Sang technical and agricultural seedling
transfer station (Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development)... Especially, for tea spearhead specialty of the province, the areas
in the province have been attended to raising
tea plantation area to nearly 22,000 ha,
creating many tea regions for organic
production.
In the livestock sector: The province has built a
number of main breeding areas with high
economic efficiency (areas of chickens raising
areas in Phu Binh, Dinh Hoa and Vo Nhai; pig
raising areas in Phu Binh, Pho Yen...). With
chicken raising areas, there are 200/356 hightech application farms such as high-yield, coldcoop breeding, automating care systems, about
20% of the total number of chickens in the
province. In pig raising areas, 40/250 farms
apply high-tech such as high yielding varieties,
cold cages, automating feed and water
operation, antiseptic and environmental
treatment according to advanced breeding
technology process, making 11.2% of the total
pig quantity in the province... These
applications help reduce labor cost, increase
production efficiency for farmers, so that
number of pigs grow to more than 700
thousands (up more than 300 thousands
compared to 5 years ago), poultry quantity is
up to 10 millions, increasing 4 millions for 5
years ago.
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agriculture, it really achieved good results, it
needs to raise awareness, financial capacity,
technology, policies and organizational
mechanism, close coordination between the
state and the faculties, the scientists, investors
and farmers.
In 2018, the province identified a large, deep
and wide vision in developing and
considering major directions, including the
content of diversifying the economy with
three pillars: Developing high-tech industry
with electronic industry, related supporting
industries; tourism - service, in which, the
development of education, training and
medical services has gradually become an
important sector of the local economy; hightech agricultural development. Thai Nguyen
province is in parallel with the issuance of
projects and plans to support production
development associated with agricultural
restructuring and new rural construction (such
as: Agricultural restructuring scheme, Scheme
Agricultural application of high technology,
the scheme of developing tea plants and tea
product brands, the development of high-tech
agriculture is a great program of Thai
Nguyen. In the province, the project of hightech agricultural development has been
developed and implemented; The program of
agricultural restructuring towards improving
added value and sustainable development is
being considered as the main driving force for
promoting agricultural growth in the area,
improving incomes and improving people's
lives countryside. Along with the expansion
of the above models, many financial
resources have been invested in high-tech
applications, forming and developing link
chains or using block-chain, creating quality
agricultural products, productivity and value,
high, environmentally friendly, contributing
to ensuring social safety.
General characteristics of human resources in
Thai Nguyen province: Regarding the number
of labor force, by the end of 2017, the
province's labor force from the age of 15 to
over Which reached 769 thousand people,
increasing of 5,000 people to 2016 (male
49.7% and female 50.3%), urban labor force
accounts for 30.3%, rural area 69.7%.
Workers from the aged 15 and over working
in economic sectors in 2017 reached 758
thousand people, up 5.8 thousand people to
2016. In which, agriculture, forestry and
fishery sector 332.1 thousands of people, for
43.8%; industry and construction 234.6
thousand people, for 30.9%; service sector
191.3 thousand people, for 25.3%. Thus, Thai
Nguyen agricultural workers still account for
a higher proportion than other sectors.
However, many high-tech application
development projects still exist. Agricultural
production in the province is still mainly
small and fragmented production based on
household size, mainly raw materials, low
rate of industrial processing. In order to
develop sustainably in high-tech application
Regarding the employment status of Thai
Nguyen's human resources, the number and
proportion of laborers in the agriculture,
forestry and fishery sectors in Thai Nguyen
are always higher than those of industry,
construction and services over the years.
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3.2. Actual situation of human resources in
Thai Nguyen province
Regarding the quality of labor force in Thai
Nguyen province, compared to the rate of
trained laborers in the whole country in 2017,
about 53%, the proportion of trained laborers
with degrees and certificates in Thai Nguyen
only reached 30.7% (although it was higher
than 29.4% in 2016), in which trained
workers in urban areas reached 57.7%, rural
areas reached 19.2%.
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Table 1. The number and proportion of employees working annually following to Thai Nguyen economic sector
Year
Total
(people)
2015
2016
2017
746,898
752,337
758,082
Agriculture and forestry –
fishery products
Amount
Proportion
(people)
(%)
377,139
50.49%
354,364
47.1%
332,116
43.81%
Industry and
construction
Amount
Proportion
(people)
(%)
205,254
27.48%
219,622
29.19%
234,586
30.94%
Service
Amount
(people)
164,505
178,351
191,380
Proportion
(%)
22.03%
23.71%
25.25%
Source: Thai Nguyen Statistical Yearbook 2017[5]
The unemployment rate of labor force in
people. In the coming years, the province
working age in 2017 is 1.68%, of which, labor
implements measures to develop human
in urban areas are 2.16%, in rural areas are
resources; especially focusing on the
1.46%. The underemployment rate of the labor
renovation of state management methods on
force in the working age is 0.47% (0.21% in
training, human resource development, capital
urban areas and 0.58% in rural areas).
mobilization,
training
to
improve
qualifications,
knowledge
and
skills
for
Regarding training of human resources, by
employees.
2020, Thai Nguyen will have about 70% of
trained laborers will be trained; becoming a
Regarding training, Thai Nguyen currently
high quality human resource training center
has nine universities with about 2,499
for the Northern midland and mountainous
lecturers, 14 professional colleges and
provinces... Thai Nguyen has nine
vocational colleges with over 1,648 lecturers,
universities, nineteen colleges, professional
10 intermediate schools with over 661
and vocational schools, and thirty-three
teachers. The number of teachers increased in
vocational training centers. Every year,
both quantity and qualifications.
vocational training for about 16,000 to 18,000
Table 2. Level of lecturers of Thai Nguyen University, College and Intermediate school
Year
2015
2016
2017
University lecturers
Post Bachelor’s
graduate
degree
2.139
449
2.244
312
2.290
209
College lecturers
Post –
Bachelor’s
graduate
degree
905
818
961
705
979
600
Intermediate teacher
Post –
Bachelor’s
graduate
degree
112
344
112
322
164
339
Source: Thai Nguyen Statistical Yearbook 2017[5]
In the field of majority training, the number of science and technology organizations in the field
of agricultural increased significantly over the years, accounting for the highest proportion in the
field of scientific research in 2017, this shows that the focus on research investment in the field of
agricultural science is increasingly being done high attention.
Table 3. Number of science and technology organizations in the field of science in Thai Nguyen province
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Science
Natural Sciences
Technology Science
Agronomy
Medical science
Social science
Humanities
2015
1
7
5
4
8
1
2016
3
3
3
2
3
0
2017
2
11
16
3
6
4
Source: Thai Nguyen Statistical Yearbook 2017[6]
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However, high-tech agricultural of Thai
Nguyen has limit of the whole country.
According to the Vietnam human resource
development plan for the period 2011-2020,
which has been approved by the Prime
Minister, the proportion of human resources
trained in agriculture, forestry and fishery has
increased from 15.5% in 2010 up to about
50% by 2020. However, it is forecasted that
by 2020, human resources in this sector will
lack about 3.2 millions trained laborers.
In order to develop high-tech agriculture in
industrial revolution 4.0, Thai Nguyen
province must have a synchronous solution
system and comprehensive linkage between
the State - Scientist - Enterprise - Farmer.
4. Solution to develop high-tech agricultural
human resources in Thai Nguyen province
with industrial revolution 4.0
4.1. Growth trends of high-tech agricultural
industry and requirements for the
developing high-tech agriculture human
resources in Thai Nguyen province
According to the plan to 2020, Thai Nguyen
province will complete the construction of
infrastructure of high-tech agricultural
applications with scale of 320 ha which
located in Tien Phong and Tan Huong (Pho
Yen district); to build agricultural areas where
high-tech applications are applied to crops
and livestock which are majorities of the
agriculture; there are at least 2 enterprises
(businesses) to develop high-tech agricultural
applications; to reach to the proportion of
high-tech agricultural production value into
20% or more of the total value of agricultural
production in the locality; to build and perfect
the system of technical processes for
agricultural, forestry and aquatic, production
for plants and animals suitable to the
conditions of the province with using hightech application... [4] These are considered
hard-targets for a actual province situation
with a low starting point in developing
agricultural high-tech applications such as
Thai Nguyen. Thai Nguyen has just been at
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the starting point, but the province has
identified high-tech agricultural investment as
an inevitable direction in the province's socioeconomic development strategy. Specifically,
in 2018, Thai Nguyen attracted 65 projects,
especially focusing on 19 projects in the
agricultural
sector,
mainly
high-tech
agricultural projects.
The requirement for the development of hightech agriculture human resources in Thai
Nguyen province before agriculture 4.0
requires the labor force with high skills and
proficiency in the application of scientific and
technological advances... for economic
results. However, the fact shows that the
qualification of labor in rural areas of Thai
Nguyen is low, the system of vocational
training is outdated and does not meet the
requirements. Facing this situation, the
renewal of training methods and human
resource development for agriculture 4.0 is an
urgent requirement for functional levels and
branches, needing practical solutions for
development of human agricultural force.
4.2. Solution on controlling quantity and
quality and improvement of high-tech
agricultural human resources
Firstly, there must be good at controlling in
terms of the number of human resources,
limiting the population growth rate of the
province. According to Thai Nguyen
statistics, the population of Thai Nguyen
province in 2016 is 1,227,400 people, the
natural population growth rate is 0.99%. In
particularly, the main reason for Thai Nguyen
population growth due to high migration into
Thai Nguyen (two directions: rural - Thai
Nguyen and other urban areas - Thai Nguyen);
Thai Nguyen crude birth rate in 2017 is 15.14
‰ (decreasing 0.17 ‰ compared to 2016), the
reduction is not sustainable, especially, that is
higher than the other province because of
childbearing in rural. Thereby, all creating
many problems that need solved such as labor
and employment: unemployment rate of labor
resources in the working age in 2017 is 1.68%,
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of which rural areas are 1.46%. Therefore,
ensuring a reasonable population size, limiting
the birth of a third child, continue to maintain
and promote the implementation of policies on
population planning.
Secondly, improving the quality of human
resources, it is necessary to improve the
physical and mental level of human
resources. Propagating and raising awareness
for employees, opening propaganda classes
for managers, thereby enabling them to go
deeper and closer to the workforce of rural
agricultural workers (especially ethnic
minorities) to active, disciplined life skills in
the new environment as well as knowledge
of new techniques that will be applied in
cultivation under the impact of the 4.0 digital
technology context. Improving the income of
workers on the basis of stable jobs, ensuring
social justice to create conditions for
children of poor families to access
educational health services.
Thirdly, creating jobs for the labor force in
the working age to reduce the unemployment
rate in both urban and rural areas, accelerating
labor restructuring to progress and improve
the efficiency of human resource in use.
Implementing
regional
economic
restructuring towards the formation and
development of industries and economic
sectors to form a new form of economic
structure and labor structure, including three
closely linked and supportive sections,
creating a multi-tiered grid system and create
jobs for human resources.
4.3. Solutions to improve the efficiency of
using high-tech agricultural human resources
In order for human resources to serve hightech development with quality and efficiency,
it is necessary to build a close link between
four houses "Farmers - State - Scientists Enterprises" this is the development trend of
modern and sustainable agriculture. In
particular, enterprises applying industry 4.0
support effectively farmers applying high
technology, actively linking with agricultural
experts in developed countries to provide
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solutions,
equipment
and
specific
implementation formulas. Domestic high-tech
agricultural experts will apply all in practice.
The local governments of the provinces need
to promote the policy of supporting
enterprises,
creating
a
coordination
mechanism, getting close links between the
state and enterprises, training institutions and
farmers, promoting potentials power.
4.4. Solution for training human resources
in Thai Nguyen province
Vietnam is lacking of qualified and intensive
teachers on new rural areas and agriculture,
specially, high-tech agriculture. There are
much of theory in training programs, the
content does not cover all the knowledge,
skills and skills about new rural areas, lack of
deep
knowledge
about
international
integration, climate change, production
linkages, value chain development, business,
market
orientation,
entrepreneurship
knowledge, high technology, information
technology application...
Firstly, the State must be decisive role in the
development of high-tech agriculture. With
the tradition of an agricultural production
economy, there are about 70% of the
population participating in agricultural
production in the whole country, in Thai
Nguyen the labor force in agriculture
accounts for nearly 50%. Thus, in the process
of applying high technology to agricultural
production, farmers and peasants are mostly
in doing. The State should organize training
courses to raise farmers' awareness about the
importance
of
high-tech
agricultural
development, as well as training of life skills,
discipline and matching village life with
industrial style to increase the dynamics of
rural agricultural human resources but not
lose the good national identity and culture.
At the same time, the state also needs to enact
policies to support businesses, creating
opportunities for enterprises to train farmers
to produce according to the order
requirements of enterprises. Support capital in
the application and transfer of high
technology in agricultural production to both
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farmers and businesses for a number of main
projects (such as the application of high
technology in tea production and products
from tea) ... The state needs enforce policies
which support talented people, good experts
in the field of high-tech to develop agriculture
in Thai Nguyen.
Secondly, improving the professional and
technical qualifications of human resources.
The rate of unskilled workers in Thai Nguyen
which accounts for a high proportion of
69.3% (although it has decreased compared to
70.6% in 2016), of which, untrained workers
in urban areas are 42.3%, rural areas account
for a very high rate of 80.8%. Therefore, the
province needs to build and develop a human
resource training system in association with
importance products, high competitiveness
and great demand. There are prospects for
future development of Thai Nguyen, such as
planting and processing tea products, growing
safe vegetables, flowers and ornamental
plants, medicinal plants...
Thirdly, it is necessary to coordinate links
between enterprises and schools in training
high-tech human resources. Currently, in
order to have human resources for developing
high-tech agriculture, Thai Nguyen province
needs to be bold in the program to send
workers to overseas training or training at
domestic educational institutions, training
links both learning and doing according to the
needs of businesses. The school facilitates
students to practice in the enterprises to have
more experiences, skills for applying the
acquired knowledge in the school in working
at the enterprise. The school with high
qualified scientific researchers needs to
cooperate with enterprises to implement
projects on agricultural applications in
agriculture such as green agriculture, smart
agriculture ... including the participation of
trainees let them directly study as well as gain
more practical experience. The co-operation
among universities, businesses and research
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institutes is an inevitable reality when training
must follow to the demand or according to the
orders of the business.
5. Conclusion
The fourth industrial revolution is changing the
global economy, having a direct impact on
Vietnam (both positive and negative). If
Vietnam takes good opportunities and
overcomes challenges, Vietnam will be able to
narrow the development gap with more
advanced countries. It’s sooner to realize its
goal of becoming a modern developed country.
This article contributes to agricultural
development in Thai Nguyen province in
accordance with the trend of industrial
revolution, improving the socio-economic life
of the local people, aiming at agriculture with
breeding and farming automation and high
standards processes. With the participation of
the political system, businesses and peasants,
good high-tech agricultural will become a
reality, contributing to ensuring food security
and national food in generally and agricultural
development in Thai Nguyen province in
particularly.
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