Abstract:
During my field attachment at Kakira Sugar Limited, I successfully carried out a number of activities in four different sections from 28th February to 29th April 2022.
Under nucleus estate, activities such as; identifying implements, land preparation, planting, weed management, fertilizer application, irrigation and cane harvesting were successfully done.
Dairy unit is located at Kabiaza hill and purely deals in fresh and clean milk production. I actively participated in; machine milking, feed mixing, bucket feeding of calves, hand spraying against ecto-parasites general cleaning of animal sheds and drainage systems in the farm.
Agronomy is a research station dealing with cane variety evaluation, tiller counting, growth rate measurement, juice analysis in the laboratory, fertilizer application; cane. planting; cane harvesting, cane weighment and weather forecasting.
Horticulture deals with vegetable and ornamental plant growing, nursery bed preparation, compost making, pest and disease control then finally lawn and hedge management.
However, f was in position to gain practical' skills and knowledge in line with my career and relating with field workers at Kakira Sugar Limited.
In a nutshell, I also encountered a few challenges like placement delays but I recommend KSL to officially reopen the trainee activities so that students from higher institutions can be absorbed and availed with opportunities to conduct their training from within the KSL estates thus catering for their practical needs.
