Farming Freeters Save The Harvest

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: New farm skills training course a flop with NEETs

It seems the promise of important job skills and fresh country air are not enough to lure the nation's growing NEET and "freeter" population into action. In fact, only six people have applied to take part in a farm skills training program recently set up by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...Ministry officials calculated 120 people a year would take part in the "Challenge! Farm School" program annually...According to a number of nonprofit organizations that work with young people, the high price tag of the courses, as well as the length, is most likely where the ministry went wrong. The six-month program costs about 570,000 yen.