A report on field attachment carried out at CUARD from February-May 2022.

Abstract

Industrial training is a course module that is conducted from either within or outside the University with the intension of imparting practical knowledge and skills to the students. I conducted my IT from CURAD (CEBU) located at Gayaza Kabanyolo in Kampala district for ten weeks from 28th/February/2022 to 07th/May/2022. The key objective of this training is to enable us as students apply the theory learnt at the University and put it into practice, get more knowledge in the field so as to know how to work with the community and be able to solve some of the challenges they are facing outside, During my Industrial Training, I carried out several activities specifically coffee processing, quality analysis, buying of coffee, value addition for example roasting, grinding, weighing, packaging, sealing and marketing of coffee and its products. During the period of IT, I gained a lot of skills post-harvest handling of coffee. Despite of the activities and skills gained in the field, I faced some challenges such as off season since serious harvesting of coffee had not started and hence limiting the clients to be attended to so as to continuously develop my skill in all aspects of value addition. In adequate working materials to be used in the field such as few electronic weighing machines to ease work, processing and value addition section. However, these challenges can be over came by the incubator preserving some coffee by storing it in stores for study purposes by IT students, purchasing of more working materials and equipment to be used by internees in the field and now congratulating CURAD for invading another form of power such as a generator other than relying only on electricity which is never stable and then successfully installing CCTV cameras in the facility (CEBU) to critically handle theft and monitor smooth running of activities. Conclusively the framing was successfully done due to the co-operation and the maximum efforts maintained between Internees, field supervisors and the rest of the staff of CEBU.