Abstract:
This report is about industrial training which was carried. out at RALNUC Agricultural Unit (RAU) Agago for a period of two months that is from 16/05/2016 -to 22/07/2016.
RALNUC agricultural unit has got two stations with the main station is in Patongo town council, Agago district and the satellite station Is in Kalongo town council, Agago district for a good coordination and the organization has thirty-four staff with the head being the coordinator and twenty-six Agricultural tension Officers (AEO) who perform daily extension activities with the farmer in the field and these extension officers are being monitor by Agricultural Extension Supervisor (AES).
The organization has their main goal as to improve the production level of the small holder farmers with their main objectives being;
to increase the agricultural production and marketing of agricultural produce for small scale-farmer,
2 to improve the agricultural related infrastructure using the labor-intensive approach, and,
3. to build the capacity of DLO to improve service delivery mainly in ere of areas of agriculture and rural infrastructure, as per sub section one;
The organization aims at carrying out adaptive research on crop to produce crops that can suit the northern agro-ecological climate, to train farmers on good agronomic practices, to improve on the dietary needs of the local farmers and equipping students with skills and knowledge on practical aspects in the field of agriculture.
The organization also consist of two department i.e., crop and animal. For crop, it was implemented on the 01/02/2016 which is functioning at the moment but for animal department it was not yet implemented so they are still looking forward for purchasing oxen to distribute to the farmers though we are doing small activities like spraying animals, deworming therefore from the activities I carried out during the attachment period, I was able to gain skills and qualification such as spraying animals deworming drafting production and marketing plan for the farmer, measuring of demonstration plot using tape measure, planting demonstration of sunflower and sesame in the lines and Collecting of data for drafting production and marketing plan hence I do recommend that the industrial training should continue though the university should support the organization to facilitating the mentor field supervisors so that they should deliver all they have to student for the better training and success of industrial training to improve on good agronomic practices in northern Uganda to promote high products.
