Abstract:
The 10 weeks of industrial training were done at BUZARDE which is a public agricultural organization mediated to conduct and manage adaptive agriculture research development and disseminate improved agricultural technology relative to the Lake Albert crescent zone. It covers all districts of Hoima, Masindi, Kibaale, Kagadi, Buliisa, Kikuube, Kiryandongo, and Kakl_uniro.
The main objective of the attachment was to acquire practical skills, knowledge, and experience in diverse fields of agriculture that help to broaden the knowledge of the theoretical approaches that we had learnt in class to the practice in the field.
The main objective of the field attachment was to obtain the practical skills, knowledge, and experience the diverse field of agriculture that help to broaden the knowledge I learn in class and be able to apply it in the field. The different skills I attained at different sections that I attended include; identifying different injection sites of animals, and how to do the injection, doing the castration that involved the removing of the male testis by breaking the sperm cords stop blood supply to the testis, dehorning; egg candling that involves the examining of eggs under light to identify fertility in eggs during artificial incubation, how to. determine different chick malpositions, skills on pig restrain using a pig snare, grafting in agroforestry. All these activities were possible to attain since I did them practical hands-on.
The entire internship program was successfully done however different challenges were faced along like harsh weather especially heavy sunshine and sometimes rains that used to hinder our Programmes, we also faced. challengers of lack of pots to practically deal with indigenous microorganism in pigs another challenge was the limited attention by some of the technicians as they were at times committed to outside community outreach programs that left with a gap in achieving all things in time however the internship wag generally interesting since we gotten a huge impact .on our skills and were able to learn other things outside class like to conduct myself at the work place in, terms of time and associations.
