Abstract:
This industrial training was carried out at Livestock Experimental Farm NAGRC & DB, one of the farms under NAGRC and DB is the Livestock Experimental Station (LES) which is located in Wakiso district 7 km from Kitooro along Entebbe Airport Road, around the shores of Lake Victoria
During this period, a variety of activities were carried out e.g. milking, bucket feeding calves, intensive system of poultry management, castration, dehorning, spraying goats and calves dipping cattle, heat detection, artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, multiple ovulation and embryo transfer, swine management, fencing disease diagnosis and treatment, deworming, pasture management and pasture conservation in which new skills and exposure to various field cases or activities were gained.
Despite the fact that a number of challenges were encountered especially lack of enough equipment like pangas hoes and slashes, poor pastures lack of source of information and lack of sufficient drugs for disease treatment, the industrial training was very beneficial in building up my future career and improving on my professional ethics as related to my course of animal production and management.
I would recommend that the administrators of Busitema University provide some little amount of money to the field supervisors to motivate them to provide sufficient training and skills to students during the field attachment.
To LES NAGRC & DB, I recommend that the managing staff equips the farm with sufficient tools, bid for more drugs from the government for proper disease control and also renovate some of the fam building especially the milking parlor and the calf pen.
