Industrial training report carried out in Kabei sub-county Bukwo district local government.

Abstract

The industrial training report is a combination of all the activities undertaken during the industrial training period in Kabei s/c. Bukwo district local Government, Bukwo district is one of the districts in eastern Uganda; it's bordered by Kenya to the east, Mount Elgon Nation Park to the south, Amudat district to the north and Kween district to the west. The most predominant tribe is the sabinys who do practice livestock rearing and cultivating of crops. During my IT was attached to the production sector under The supervision of DPO and under him was the extension workers and I was introduced to many activities among which were sensitization of farmers about coffee, bananas, potatoes and distribution of those technologies to the farmers in the sub-county. Monitoring of the distributed technologies which Were distributed to the farmers which I gained mote bf the skills among of which were pest and disease diagnosis, identification of some of the pesticides to be applied to the plants affected, some of the problems faced by the farmers during post harvesting and fanner trainings and evaluation of the distributed technologies. Thus the IT has made me to relate class work to practical field. However, there were some challenges, the area was hilly which made movement hard, some farmers wanted facilitation before attending trainings, some farmers were so conservative and also the transport system. was so poor. Recommendations' local council ones should sensitize their people on importance of production training, construction of durable working roads to ease access to hard to reach area to ensure uniform technology adoption in the s/c.