Abstract:
It is a must for students at Busitema University to carryout industrial training after two semesters of study. Industrial training is module carried out to help students to be exposed to practical skills which involves visiting Agricultural institutes both public and private organizations such as research stations sugar estates and animal farms. The main objective of the study was to boost theoretical knowledge and skills learnt in class with hands on practical skills and applied knowledge. It always takes period of two months.
The study was carried out under the following activities;
Visiting the organization to seek acceptance.
Preparation of the industrial training by meeting with the supervisors to give us details on how we shall carry out the training and orientation.
Conducting the training in various enterprises.
The key objective of this training is to enable us apply the theory learnt in class and put it in practice, get more knowledge in the field so as to know how to work with the community. to know challenges faced outside.
The major enterprises we dealt with were;
Coffee, banana, wheat, Meteorology, field peas, aquaculture and apples.
The training was successfully done, the supervisors were friendly and were free to give us all the skills we needed. Through the organization it has the challenges but it is prospering. The major challenges were unfavorable weather with too much rainfall leading to poor road network and this can be solved through government support in organizing them so as to ease transportation of crop produce. Also, there was lack of enough equipment to-be used in the field such as secateurs, wheel barrows, hoes, pangas, pruning saw, watering cans, knapsack sprayers which delayed our work in field and so I request the research organization to have more of them to ease work in the field.
