Abstract:
This industrial training was compiled at Sironko District demonstration farm in a period of 10 weeks from 28th Feb 2022 to 6th May2022 from Monday to Friday. Since it is mandatory for every student pursuing a diploma in crop production and management to undertake IT for 10 weeks after the first academic year as a requirement for the partial fulfilment of the course and also to equip student with practical skills and expose them to the community world.
This report is made up of four chapters i.e.: chapter one, chapter two; chapter three and chapter four.
Chapter one consists of the introduction of the farm, its name as Sironko district demonstration farm located in Sironko District Mutufu town council, the history i.e. the year it started (2016), publically owned farm dealing in crop and animal production offering food to its clients and also offering technical skills to students from various institutions and also employment opportunities to the people, E.g. farm managers and to the casual workers.
Chapter two describes most of the activities carried out at the farm like orientations which exposed us to the farm, making work plans-to guide us, disease identification in banana and coffee plantations, testing seed variability, carrying out soil sampling and control of maize/borer using push and pull method and many others.
Chapter three contains mostly the skills gained like how to plan and conduct trainings, demonstrations, record keeping, crop management, pest and disease identification and their control and skills on how to determine seed germination percentage
And finally chapter four consists other outcomes and recommendations like what should be done, maintained and revised for example purchasing more tools by the farm, employing more technical persons to handle animal sections
