Agricultural-Livestock Technique.
The Tertiary Course that has been taught at the Melo Agrarian School for more than a decade not only offers quick job placement to those who obtain the degree after two years but also many advantages for those young people who later wish to continue university studies both in the Faculty of Agronomy and in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
“I come to promote, to tell you what the Technique in Intensive Agricultural-Livestock Production is like. It consists of two intense years of practice receiving knowledge from a very interesting group of Agricultural Engineers, Veterinarians and Technicians who are the ones who teach the courses.” he remarked Dairy Technician Luis Parentini.
“This Technique has been working for more than 13 or 14 years. It started at the Bernardo Rosengurt Experimental Station in a kind of agreement and then we moved to the Agrarian School. With the Fraile Muerto Annex we generate a very interesting offer” he counted.
“We receive students from various parts of the country. We have had experience of kids from Montevideo, Durazno, Paysandú, Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Lavalleja, Rivera and Tacuarembó visiting us, staying for a while and leaving.” he detailed. “This is very pleasing to us because being chosen is really very good” he added.
“Students live their boarding experience beyond what they can also do as external students” he pointed out. “Living at the boarding school creates a very nice bond between them and us that makes the Teaching Staff strive to give them what we can. Many times we participate with them in marathon days, touring various parts of the country so that they can train themselves.” stressed the Teacher of the Alcides F. Pintos Agrarian School in the city of Melo.
“The boys graduate with the title of Technicians. They have their time of internships and thesis. “They have had a very good job placement in various areas of agricultural production, in practice, in important establishments in the area” Parentini highlighted.
“We are pleased to have students, our graduates, working in New Zealand” he pointed out.
“When the UTU had the great idea of generating this end that was previously a precipice because they had to go back to go to the Faculty of Agronomy, being able to complete the Baccalaureate and the insertion to continue the Faculty of Agronomy or to continue Veterinary Medicine has done something very interesting” he assured. “The first years that they attend any of these Faculties, having had that experience with animals, with crops and with machines, gives them an advantage that makes a difference that the university teachers themselves highlight” he commented.
Luis Parentini works at the dairy, as a teacher in the dairy area of the Agrarian School. “It may not be one of the most interesting areas today, but it is an area that brings families forward, that generates interesting resources. My commitment is to teach them to take care of the animals, the machines and also see their training as a job opportunity and also as a possibility to generate their income, to suggest possible investments to their parents and with what they learned to be able to milk cows.” he concluded.
