A report of Industrial training carried out from Iganga Municipal Council Local government in Iganga District from 28th February to 6th May 2022

Abstract

This report contains and describes the activities carried out, skills attained, trainings from the field outreaches and challenges faced during my internship. Also conclusions and recommendations of the report that I derived from the challenges I faced in Iganga municipal council-local government. The main objective of my industrial training is to complement on the classroom knowledge to make it complete by carrying out those principles practically, build confidence in handling and dealing with farmers for extension of production services. During internship was attached to the department of animal production, this was followed by orientation where I was introduced to my field supervisor, staff of abattoir and my fellow internees and later implemented the activities such as vaccination of birds, meat inspection cleaning and disinfecting animal houses, feeding of animals, spraying, treatment of animals in diseases like hypocalcaemia conragious bovine papilloma, ECF and others, deworming of goats and cattle. These activities made me to gain alot of skills and knowledge like doing meat inspection, communication skills with fanners, however it shows some of the challenges I faced during my internship like financial challenges; correlation with harsh farmers arid. traders and fewer veterinarians. In conclusion. all activities were implemented and industrial training was carried out successfully and was able to gain a lot from it with some recommendations that I put forward to assist the smooth running of internship Iike close monitoring and assistance of the internees with back up and adding on the number of veterinarians to handle the big number of farmers