Abstract:
The outreach program is carried out in the first semester the second year by all the CGA, DCP and DAP students. This year's outreach program started on 12th March 2021 and ended on
16thApril 2021 and usually conducted on every Friday. We were grouped and attached to different zones under different supervisors and different farmers. I was attached to KANYETA WARD, ARAPAI SUB COUNTY, SOROTI CITY WEST AND ARAPAI ZONE A and supervisor was Mr. BULUMA DAVID, he divided us into groups and assigned each group to four different farmers during the first activity which was orientation. I was placed in group c and our farmers were Madam ASAO NAUME, Mr. ANDREW, Madam AKUJO TEDDY and Mr. ONYAIT VINCENT. I together with our group members carried out the following activities with the farmers paring of the nursery bed, identification and control of diseases in the citrus plantation by collecting and burying all the affected orang fruits m the plantation.
Application of manure to both citrus and banana plantations, planting, weeding, thinning and hardening off seedlings of tomatoes in the nursery bed which was the transplanted to the main garden, spraying of the farmer's animals to control external parasites and maintenance of kitchen garden. We as students were able to attain many achievements which include all activities we did in the farmer's homesteads and even the farmers and the university made some achievements during the outreach program, I personally encountered many challenges like bad weather which interfered with some of our programs, language barrier which was solved by use of a translator among the students in our group who knows the language, few working tools like hoes was solved by borrowing from the neighborhood. We advised the farmers together with their family's members to continue monitoring all the projects we had started like the transplanted tomato seedlings, planted egg plants and the kitchen garden in order to ensure that they get good harvest.
