Abstract:
Industrial training is a practical module where students are required to display skills and knowledge learnt from school at work stations. It also equips students with new skills as well as exposing them to the work environment.
All of this is aimed at preparing students to understand the dynamics of work outside school, class and build them with the necessary experience needed at career levels. Therefore, I was able to integrate lecture room knowledge while experiencing and understanding work ethics, while at Busitema university Arapai campus farm. I went through different sections of both crop and animal departments that include, green house, orchard, piggery, cattle section, small ruminants and dairy section. I also planted maize and dug holes for sucker planting. Busitema university Arapai campus farm is located in Soroti city Arapai sub county, 10km from Soroti city along Moroto road. BUAC is a faculty of agriculture and animal sciences that offers various agricultural related courses including DAP, DCP, BAB, CGA, BSA, APM with a standard university board of administrators and lecturers equipped and prepared with vast knowledge to up bring students in the various career levels in the field of agriculture.
The industrial training program which lasted 10 weeks involved orientation of the available farm activities, grouping, field marking and plot allocation, greenhouse activities of seed bed preparation, orchard farming, piggery farming, cattle husbandry, small ruminants and dairy section. All these skills acquired put me top level with the different professional classes available in that I am confidently able to undertake all but choose the best enterprise and fully exploit all the available resources to fulfil my goals and objectives in such a field. Integration of lecture room knowledge to the training related in the subject of principles and practices of agronomy, animal husbandry practices, disease diagnosis, treatment and control, enterprise management. However, limited equipment and bad weather are some of the challenges I encountered. The university is encouraged to invest furthermore and implement these notes in order to facilitate effective and participatory learning.
