Abstract:
This report contains and describes the activities implemented, skills and qualifications gained, challenges faced during industrial training, conclusion of the report and recommendation derived from the challenges faced at OCGCU.
The Objectives of this industrial training is to make students benefit from skills and knowledge gained from the field, apply the knowledge they got from class in the field and build confidence in the students
Daring the industrial training I was attached to the department of crop production this was followed by the orientation were I was first introduced to the staff of OCGCU and later implemented the activities such as porting, watering, weeding, raising of shed, levelling of ground, compost making, contours bound construction, planting of cover crops, profiling farmers to join cooperatives integrated pest management sensitizing farmers on local seeds in different cooperative societies.
These activities made me to gain skills and knowledge like training farmers on integrated pest management and I gained skills in making compost manure, soil conservation thru planting of cover crops and construction of-contour bounds I gained skills in general management in crop production and communication skills and confidence in training fanners in crop production and management, during internship I also faced challenges like poor mobilization of farmers in different societies, limited transport mean's for field work in the production department and poor turn up of farmers to the training.
In conclusion all the activities were implemented and industrial training was carried out successfully 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 problems and needs much as all were successfully done, there were also some little challenges which hindered the smooth running of the activities which making me recommend that proper mobilization of fanners must improve for the training programmer to solve the problems of poor tum up during such. activities, the union should also increase the number of motorcycles to solve transport problems.
