Phú Thọ Promotes Mushroom Cultivation Training to Boost Rural Employment

Phú Thọ province is promoting an organic mushroom cultivation project in Hương Cần commune in partnership with businesses, giving priority to poor and near-poor households and ethnic minority residents. Businesses supply mushroom spawn, cooperate in production and purchase the harvest, providing growers with a sales channel. The project currently employs dozens of local workers, mainly ethnic minority residents, who earn 7 million to 9 million Vietnamese dong per person per month.

Residents of Hương Cần commune, Phú Thọ province, inspect mushrooms in a cultivation project.（VietVance）

The project uses agricultural and forestry byproducts and corncobs as growing materials to reduce costs. Phú Thọ also provides vocational training in mushroom cultivation, covering spawn propagation, preparation of growing substrates, routine care, temperature and humidity control, and harvesting. The province has included mushroom cultivation in its list of elementary-level vocational courses and courses lasting less than three months, allowing vocational education institutions to offer training according to actual demand.

The mushroom cultivation project in Hương Cần commune, Phú Thọ province, provides jobs for local residents.（VietVance）

From 2021 to 2025, Phú Thọ provided more than 22,000 instances of vocational training for ethnic minority workers and conducted 173 on-site training programs. From 2026 to 2030, the province plans to provide vocational training, retraining and skills development for about 76,500 rural workers, aiming for at least 85% of trainees to find employment after training.

Linking vocational training with businesses, sales markets and local livelihood projects is also a focus of a related subproject under Vietnam’s National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas. The aim is to increase employment and income and support sustained poverty reduction.

Source: VietVance