Report on skills, knowledge and qualifications attained during BSA3209 industrial training at mountain harvest SMC ltd- Mbale.

Abstract

This report contains and describes the activities implemented, skills and qualifications gained, challenges faced during the industrial training, conclusion of the report and recommendations derived from the challenges faced at mountain harvest coffee company ltd. The objective of this industrial training is to make students benefit from the skills and knowledge gained from the fields, apply the knowledge they get from the classroom in the field and build confidence in the students. Internship commenced on 28th February 2022 and I was supervised on 28th April 2022. During internship I was attached to the department of certification. This was followed by orientation where I was first introduced to the staffs and organizational set up of the company and later I implemented the activities such as; marking fields and digging holes for planting coffee, sorting dry green coffee grading green coffee beans, cupping, coffee certification, training on pest and disease management, training farmers how to prune and stump coffee trees distribution of hass avocado and training on then growth, training on bee keeping, hulling coffee, weighing and milling coffee, making effective microorganisms organic fertilizer. However, I also faced some challenges like; poor mobilization of the farmer, poor turn up of the farmers to the training, Farmers expected to be given inputs, financial assistance at all times and they at times rejected trainings and other knowledge, internship was put when the season was off; therefore I was not able to learn certain activities like harvesting, drying and fermenting coffee, In conclusion all the activities were implemented and industrial training was carried out successfully, I was able to gain a lot from it. I was in position of getting practical skills and knowledge in line with my career and relating with people in the field. The technical advice that I provided addressed farmers' problem and needs. Much as all were successfully done, there were also some few challenges which hindered the smooth running of the activities making me recommend that proper mobilization of farmers must improve for the training programs to solve problems of poor turn up during such activities, the university should at least ensure two supervisions to ensure effective study like other universities because the internship practice is long, If possible let the university make bonded logbooks with hard covers other than the current ones for purposes of proper and easy information handling finally, in order for the internship to run on smoothly, the university should establish good relationship with the commonest organizations to which its students get attached to.