A comprehensive industrial training report carried out at Arapai campus farm

Abstract

This IT was conducted for 10 weeks Arapai campus farm located along Soroti-Moroto high way 6.5km from Soroti town from the 20TH May to 26TH July 2019 Busitema University is a public university established by stator instrument number 22, 2007 enacted by the parliament on the 10/05/2007. The university is a multi-campus model with seven (7) campuses namely; Arapai, Busitema, Kaliro, Mbale, Nagongera, Pallisa and Namasagali campus. BUAC first started as agricultural college in 1956 being officially opened by Dr. COHEN M.C.C. Recently in 2009, it was upgraded to a campus under Busitema university up to date. It started by offering CGA, DAP, DCP, APM and later introduced two more courses i.e. BSA and BAB in 2017. Arapai campus is located 6.5 km along Soroti-Moroto road the former Arapai agricultural college in Soroti district with an estimation of 6.71 hectares of land. The objective of this IT expose the students to the community members in the field they are working with and enable them to put into practice the knowledge which has been acquired from class theoretically. During the course of my training, various activities were carried out in two departments i.e. crop and animal which included the following; castration, aging of goats, disease identification and treatment, feed formulation, vaccination, breed identification, pruning, planting vegetables. weeding, spraying, potting, digging planting holes, planting etc. However, knowledge and skills were attained in both departments which included the following: Animal skills; Disease identification, treating sick animals, feed formulation animals and birds using locally available feeds,' Poultry disease identification and control measures. Crop skills; Field marking, Pest and disease identification anti management, Greenhouse management, Horticultural crops production and management, Crop spraying techniques (using a sack sprayer). Since the training involved. much in. practical activities like; treating animals, spraying, weeding, etc. the training completed successfully. And I would like to recommend the university to; buy enough tools like; Pangas, axes, tape measures; pruning saws etc. in order to reduce limitedness in tools and equipment to be used during field activities like; field marking, pruning etc., to stock inputs like; agro-chemicals and drugs in the farm for proper parasites, pest and diseases control in the farm to reduce depopulation of animals and pest damages to crops.