Agricultural volunteer training course “Inagi Agriculture Fureai Juku”

The agricultural volunteer system is a system in which volunteers provide free assistance to farmers who are finding it difficult to farm due to aging or a lack of workers.
The purpose is to interact with farmers and deepen understanding of Inagi agriculture.

Inagi City has been running the "Inagi Agricultural Communication Academy" since fiscal 2016 to train agricultural volunteers.
Each fiscal year, we divide the students into vegetable cultivation and fruit cultivation departments, and hold a year-long course in which they can learn cultivation techniques.
After completing the course, participants will be dispatched to individual farmers as agricultural volunteers, playing an active role in boosting agriculture in Inagi.

In the fruit section, you can learn about the knowledge and techniques of pear cultivation, a specialty of Inagi.
Pear cultivation involves various tasks throughout the year, from pollination in the spring to pruning the branches in winter, so you can see the pears grow over the course of a year.
In addition, the practical training for this course involves working in the orchards of farmers from the Inagi Pear Producers Association, providing a valuable opportunity to actually learn in an orchard.
After completing the course, you will be dispatched to pear farms as a volunteer to help with fruit cultivation, specializing in pear cultivation.

Applications for this year have now closed.

In the vegetable section, you can learn about the knowledge and techniques of vegetable cultivation.
The sowing time and harvesting method vary depending on the type of vegetable.
The practical training for this course will be supervised by the Inagi City Agricultural Committee in the training fields, so you will be able to experience planting vegetables according to the season over the course of a year.
After completing the course, participants will be dispatched to vegetable farms as volunteers to help with vegetable farming.

There are no applications this year. The next application period will be around September 2025.