THE NEED FOR HUMAN RESOURCE TRAINING IN RURAL AREAS TO DEVELOP NEW RURAL AREAS IN THAI BINH PROVINCE

The Vietnamese rural area is home to a large proportion of population who primarily work in field of agriculture. With about two thirds of the population living in rural areas, new rural development is of prime concern in our country's development. This development process requires a human resource to ensure the quality, qualification and rationality in structure of jobs. However, in rural areas, up to 91% of the labor force has not been trained. With trained workers, vocational training, vocational secondary training and college, the rural area is only 40-47% compared to urban areas, whereas rural labor accounts for more than 2 times the labor force compared to those in urban areas. This rate with undergraduate level is much lower, only about 15% (SABER National Report, 2012). This is a great challenge in the construction of new rural area when the manpower for rural areas is weak and lacking. For the purpose of clarifying the human resource needs in rural areas and for the new rural development, this paper presents the current status of rural human resources in Thai Binh province and the need for human resources training to meet the requirements of new rural development. This is a case study of Thai Binh province, belongs to project "Researching the need for human resource training in rural areas in the context of building new rural areas".