Abstract:
This report contains information on farm and community practice that I undertook for a period of ten weeks between 28th February, 2022 to 6th Maý.2022 at Agency for Community
Empowerment Nebbi district with an aim of acquiring hands-on skills and experience in farming and community practice to get exposed to various farm enterprises and cultural beliefs, behaviors and norms of the community,
While in the field I participated in number of activities that is; training on good agronomic practices of Bean, Cassava and onion, training on Saving with a Purpose, preparing Onion planting materials, Nursery bed establishment for horticultural entity, group conflict resolution, field monitoring. The methodology used were: Recording, Observation, Interviewing and demonstration. I learnt the following lessons. How to set demonstration garden using Pythagoras theory (a2+b2=c2 where a— 3, b=4 and c=5), data collection and management, coffee processing using hurling machine, honey processing using honey extractor. Below are some of the key skills attained; Riding, Communication and community dialogue, training and couching.
In conclusion, the industrial training was successful though I encountered some few challenges; Poor Road network, unpredictable weather, poor attendance of meetings and trainings by the farmers, late coming of farmers for the meeting, limited time for internship, long distance.
