Industrial training report carried out at Kasajja stock farm, Kolonyi 1, Kolonyi parish, Nakaloke sub county, Mbale district.

Abstract

This industrial training was compiled at Kasajja stock farm in a period often weeks from the 28th of February 2022 to 6th of May 2022 from Monday to Friday. Since it is mandatory for every student pursuing a diploma in anima production and management to undertake IT for 10 weeks after the first academic year as a requirement of the partial fulfillment of a course and to also equip students with practical skills and expose them to the community world. This report is made up of four chapters that is to say; chapter one, two, three and chapter four.

Chapter one consists of the introduction of the farm, its name as Kasajja stock farm located in Mbale district Nakaloke Sub County which seats on over, the history i.e., the year it started (1966), privately owned farm, dealing in dairy farming offering milk to its clients and also offering technical skills to students from various institutions and also employment opportunities to the people and finally their leadership is autocratic whereby instructions are given by the board of director, chief executive, farm managers and down to the casual workers.

Chapter two describes most of the activities carried out while at the farm like orientations, which exposed us to the farm, making work plans to guide us, pregnancy diagnosis using rectal palpation, disease diagnosis, cattle dipping and spraying to control external parasites, deworming to control internal parasites treating animals, castration, dehorning, disbudding pasture establishment, hay making, milking and many others.

Chapter three contains mostly the skills gained like dehorning, castration, treating, milking and other skills obtained including the responsibilities I undertook like participating in dehorning, castration, milking, feeding calves, feeding vows and others not forgetting the influence to my future career like using the skills gained to also venture in dairy farming and treating animals in may locality to earn a living and the relations of the lecture room knowledge and the farm activities.

And finally, chapter four consists other outcomes and recommendations like what should done, maintained and revised for example purchasing more tools by the farm, employing more technical persons to handle crop sections and also the university to avail funds time for timely supervision.