Abstract:
This report was carried out at SPCMF and it involves and describes the activities carried out, skills gained and challenges faced during the training, conclusions of the report and recommendations derived from the challenges faced during the attachment at SPCMF. The objective of this IT is to make the students benefit from the practical skills gained from the field during the attachment Another objective was to acquire practical skills in the field to boost the theoretical knowledge gained from class know how to propagate apples 9to get exposed to different organizations such as research centers and animal farms, to know how nursery managements is curried out. During internship at St. Paul 's College Mixed Farm in Mbale district for 10 weeks, the main activities carried out were, planting of bananas, grafting of apples, harvesting of apple root stocks coffee management, mixing of chemicals and spraying of coffee, identification of pests and disease in the field of bananas and coffee, field marking using A-frame, using H-frame for constructing contours arranging Polly pots, beating up of clonal eucalyptus trees.
The intern program was relevant and applicable as I was able to apply the knowledge from class to the practical work in the field, community outreach also added a great impact towards my goal, and the supervisors were good and were open to give us all the skills we needed. Though as an organization it had challenges but it's prospering.
The major challenge was poor road network but this can be solved by the community and the organization to put efforts together and develop the roads for easy transportation network.
Throughout the internship, I learnt that it's good to maintain cooperation and respect among staff members in order to attain organizational goals. Too much shade around the greenhouse affected the growth of vegetables thus poor yielding.
I there for recommend that the institution should improve on the infrastructure like buildings for more workers and roads to improve on transportation network and there is need for more watering cans for provision of water at the nursery station.
In conclusion I observed that the institute was not having enough equipment's for example hoes, not having enough projects which limited our learning.
