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The daily wage varies from VND 34 thous<strong>and</strong> per day for permanent skilled male workers to<br />

VND 20 thous<strong>and</strong> per day for temporary female workers. For each category of labor (skilled,<br />

unskilled <strong>and</strong> temporary), the average daily rate for males was about 20 percent higher than the<br />

correspond<strong>in</strong>g wage for females (see Table 5-6).<br />

The daily rates for skilled <strong>and</strong> unskilled permanent labor <strong>in</strong>creased as the size of processor<br />

<strong>in</strong>creased. In one case, male skilled labor, the average daily rate for large firms was 28 percent<br />

greater than that of small firms. Wages <strong>in</strong> the South are about 20 percent higher than those <strong>in</strong> the<br />

North.<br />

3.3 Education <strong>and</strong> skills<br />

About half (51 percent) of the workers of fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetable processors did not complete<br />

secondary school. About 37 percent had just a secondary school degree <strong>and</strong> just 12 percent had<br />

educational levels greater than secondary school. The proportion of the workers with post-high<br />

school qualifications was just 5 percent among small processors, ris<strong>in</strong>g to 20 percent among large<br />

ones.<br />

Processors workforces obta<strong>in</strong>ed their skills from a number of sources. The most common<br />

source (48 percent) of skills for the workforce was that they were self taught. The next most common<br />

source of workplace skills was learn<strong>in</strong>g on the job at the processor, account<strong>in</strong>g for an average of<br />

almost 29 percent of the workforce. A higher proportion of the workforce of large processors obta<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

their skills at universities. Around 15 percent of processors <strong>in</strong>dicated that they felt that their staff had<br />

serious skill deficiencies. The ma<strong>in</strong> areas of serious skill deficiency highlighted by processors were<br />

pric<strong>in</strong>g of products <strong>and</strong> underly<strong>in</strong>g technical skills. These areas were highlighted as important by all<br />

sizes of processor.<br />

Only 6 percent of processors <strong>in</strong>dicated that members of their workforce had undertaken<br />

tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses, though this percentage was higher among large processors. Among the few<br />

processors who planned to provide tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g to workers, the most common tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g location was at<br />

universities, account<strong>in</strong>g for almost 54 percent of the cases.<br />

Around 8 percent (20) of the processors <strong>in</strong>dicated that their workforce would be undertak<strong>in</strong>g<br />

tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses <strong>in</strong> the future. The major reasons cited for hav<strong>in</strong>g no <strong>in</strong>tention of provid<strong>in</strong>g tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g to<br />

workers was that there were no tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g programs available or that the cost of tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> terms of staff<br />

time would be too great. The majority of the tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses undertaken by staff of processors were<br />

provided by universities. These accounted for almost 63 percent of the total tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g courses provided.<br />

Chapter 5 Fruit <strong>and</strong> Vegetable Processors Page 5-4

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