by Iurii Mykhailov
The Union of agricultural journalists of Ukraine and The National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine on February, 26, 2016 have launched the educational program for the Ukrainian agricultural journalists and young scientists titled “The School of the Agricultural Journalism”.
The necessity of such a program comes from the fact that there is no university in Ukraine (which was often called “the breadbasket of Europe”) that offers a major in agricultural journalism.
While the field of the modern agriculture is saturated with the ever available hi-tech tools from satellites and supercomputers for weather forecasting and remote analysis of fields and crops to biotechnology (to say nothing about drones and robots), young Ukrainian agricultural journalists and scientists have little knowledge of all this.
The first three hour “lesson” titled “The basics of the agricultural journalism” was presented by the president of the Ukrainian Union of agricultural journalists – Iurii Mykhailov. Iurii also plans to give three more lessons: an introduction to economics, agricultural commodity exchanges, the basics of the traditional and alternative power generation and the global food crisis. The fourth “lesson” will be dedicated to agricultural myths including the issues of the food safety, GMOs, organic food and the global climate change.
The goal of these lessons is not to put upon young Ukrainian agricultural journalists and scientists some special point of view but to launch within them the desire to develop their own critical approaches to the general and specific information.
The Ukrainian version of the report about the first “lesson” is available on the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine web-site:http://www.naas.gov.ua/newsall/newsnaan/2439/
The three more “lessons” will be given during March. After that lessons will be given by the professors of Ukrainian agricultural universities and scientists from the NAASU.
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