Industrial training report conducted at Katine Joint Farmers’ Cooperative Society limited (KAJOFACO) Katine Subcounty Soroti District.

Abstract

This industrial training report was carried out at KAJOFACO, Katine sub county, Dakabela county, Soroti district in the academic year 2020/2021 starting from 28th /02/2022-6th /05/2022 with the objective of exposing students to field work activities, helping farmers learn scientific/modem agriculture and to disseminate the new innovations in farming through extension service and field visits to improve farmers' standards of living. KATOFACO is a private organization owned by the community farmers of Katine and supported by AMREF, USDAF and UDET. The cooperative has a supreme body called AGM followed by BOD and finally the SUPCO capable of managing, implementing and supervision of day-to-day activities. The cooperative has three enterprises which include: production and marketing enterprise which deals with the produce purchase, bulking value addition and marketing, and other one is the input enterprise. which is involved in all farm inputs that a farmer requires to produce quality produce and finally the Sacco enterprise which deals with farmers' savings and different. The cooperative runs majorly on crop production. and the activities carried out during intern period were; field visits to TOT's, pilot farmers and irrigation site, siting, preparation and management of nursery beds, storage and store management, store records, attending to farmers at Agro inputs, planting tree seedlings at the cooperative, demonstration on how to plant maize with fertilizers, making compost manure, banana pruning and corm removal. On the animal section the following was done; meat inspection, disease diagnosis and treatment, surgery of the cow on dystocia, livestock inspection and issuing of permits at the market kraal vaccination of dogs and cats against rabies various skills and qualifications were obtained which majorly included; deworming of animal, pest identification and management, meat inspection, stacking and packaging of bags and riding motorcycles. Also, some responsibilities were held and they include the following; raising nursery bed, cleaning the maize mill machine, selling out of the agro inputs, field visits, receiving produce from the store, disease diagnosis and treatment of animals. Despite the various challenges that came my way, I managed to obtain various skills and knowledge that will influence my future plans. What I experienced out there in the field was closely related to the lecture room knowledge I had at the university. Finally, KAJOFACO is greatly progressing basing on its mission, vision and objectives. The cooperative can also add capacity to its clients by training them on vegetable production. Last but not least, the university should always do early supervision of students to give them room for report writing.