Abstract:
The industrial training (IT) was conducted for a period of' 10 weeks at National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) from 28th February 2022 to 06th May 2022. This is located in the Eastern Agro-ecological zone in Serere District, 27 km south of Soroti City. NaSARRI is one of the 16 Public Agricultural Research Institutes (PARIs) of National Agricultural Research Organization CNARO) established by the National Agricultural Act 2005, The objective of IT is to enable students acquire practical knowledge, skills, on carry out practices in agricultural production, processing and related activities, write a report on industrial attachment experiences, Collect data in the field of attachment, Analyze and interpret data. collected. This training was carried out in different programs in a rotation i.e. farm management, dry land cereals program, dry land legumes program, fiber crop program and oil crop program.
During the training, various activities were carried out which included; Disease identification (Grain mold, Anthracnose) in sorghum, pest identification in sorghum (sorghum shoot fly, stalk borer) post-harvest data collection on 100 seed count of sorghum and green gram, bulking of green gram, pest and disease identification selfing, emasculation and, crossing of flowers in different crops such as groundnuts, cotton, cereals.
However, various skills were gained; and these include breeding activities such as scouting for flowers that are ready for emasculation, emasculation activity, cross pollinating or dusting pollen on the emasculated flowers, field marking, pest identification from different crops, I gained a skill on how to differentiate diseases and data collection and some few challenges were faced like; Time allocation for each section was not enough because there was a lot to be covered under each program which led to most activities to remain uncovered as they meant to done, limited tools, faulty equipment in different sections attended tor
Conclusively, would like to conclude by saying that during the industrial training attachment I learnt a lot of skills from different areas and it has positively contributed to my future career plan and therefore I recommend the research institute to increase the time allocated for each section so that work that is meant to be covered in a particular section will fully be done as well as providing more functional tools.
