Abstract:
It is mandatory for students at Busiterna University to carryout industrial training after two semesters of study.
Industrial training is a module carried out to help students be exposed to practical skills which involves visiting Agricultural institutes both public and private organizations such as research stations, Sugar estates, District agricultural offices and animal farms. The objective of the study was to boost theoretical skills and knowledge learnt in class with hands on practical skills and applied knowledge. It always takes a period of two months.
The- study was carried out under the following activities;
• Visiting the organization to seek acceptance.
• Preparation of the industrial training by meeting with the supervisors to give us details on how we shall carry out the training and orientation.
• Conducting the training in various enterprises.
The key objective of this training is to enable us apply the theory learnt at school and pul it in practice, get more knowledge in the field so as to know how to work with the know challenges faced outside,
The major enterprises we dealt with were;
Maize, Bananas, Cassava, Rice’s Sustainable land management (SLM), Coffee, Sweet potatoes, Beans„ Pasture, Eucalyptus production, Agro forestry. Report writing and conducting experiments.
The industrial training was successfully done; the supervisors were good and were open to give us all the skills we needed. Though as an organization it has challenges but it prospering.
The major challenge was water shortage but this can be solved by the Community and the organization to put efforts together and dig and construct more bore holes and also, I encourage the national water and sewage cooperation to improve its service delivery.
