Decision No. 26/2024/QD-UBND, issued by the People's Committee of Tien Giang Province on 2 October 2024 and signed by Vice-Chairman Nguyen Thanh Dieu on behalf of the Chairman, promulgates economic-technical norms for seven training occupations of under three months' duration applied in vocational education in Tien Giang Province; it takes effect from 18 October 2024. The legal bases include the 2014 Law on Vocational Education, Decree No. 15/2019/ND-CP, Decree No. 32/2019/ND-CP on task assignment, ordering and bidding for public services funded by recurrent State-budget expenditure, and Circular No. 07/2020/TT-BLDTBXH of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on the formulation, appraisal and issuance of training norms. The seven occupations, each set out in its own appendix, are: industrial sewing (Appendix 1); cultivation and propagation of citrus trees (Appendix 2); cultivation and propagation of durian (Appendix 3); cultivation and propagation of dragon fruit (Appendix 4); growing melon and vegetables in net houses (Appendix 5); goat raising (Appendix 6); and cattle raising (Appendix 7). The Decision applies to State management agencies for vocational education, vocational education institutions, establishments conducting vocational education activities, and related organizations and individuals delivering sub-three-month training in the province. Each appendix defines, per trainee, four norm categories: labour norms (direct teaching hours for theory and practice plus indirect labour for management and service); equipment norms (hours of use per equipment type, serving as the basis for energy costing and depreciation); material norms (consumables, lighting electricity and domestic water, maintenance materials, and initial non-consumed supplies); and physical-facility norms (floor area and hours of use of theory rooms, practice workshops and other functional areas). The norms are calculated for theory classes of 35 learners and practice classes of 18 learners. Industrial sewing runs 2 months (160 hours: 26 theory, 131 practice, 3 assessment) with a total labour norm of 9.415 hours per trainee and detailed equipment norms (e.g., 100.278 hours on single-needle sewing machines); the six agricultural occupations each run 1.5 months (120 hours), with total labour norms of 6.984 hours (citrus, durian, dragon fruit), 7.046 hours (net-house melon and vegetables) and 6.922 hours (goats, cattle) per trainee. Material schedules quantify items per learner — e.g., 4.222 kg of kate fabric for sewing; seedlings, rootstocks, fertilizers (DAP, potassium sulphate, urea) and pesticides for the crop trades; veterinary instruments, vaccines (including foot-and-mouth disease vaccine), antibiotics and a 260 kg-plus cow for cattle raising — along with computed electricity and water norms (e.g., 381.8 litres of water per sewing trainee). Norms are used to determine training costs and to plan and manage finances and quality; where training conditions differ, agencies adjust the norms accordingly. The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs guides and inspects implementation, reports annually, and reviews the norms every three years for amendment.