Abstract:
I have personally compiled this report that details all the activities carried during my Industrial Training, Skilling and Mentorship at National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) for both theoretical and practical work carried out on the firm.
Chapter one introduces National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) in a broad sense clearly giving its mission, vision, objectives and organizational structure.
Chapter Two looks at the activities involved during the training at National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE). It started with Orientation on the first day by the Human Resource Manager and the officials at the firm site. The training was mainly carried out to equip the internees with knowledge and skills on the entire coffee value chain. Understanding all the activities carried out right from the farm through post harvesting processes, processing, up to coffee in a cup. Some of these include identifying the two main types of coffee grown in Uganda, their physical differences and characteristics, coffee defects and their effects on coffee tastes and flavors in the cup, cupping, and sorting, grading, physical analysis of coffee in the laboratory. All the aspects I learned from these activities included theory and practical work and individual involvement and assessment.
Chapter Three basically entails my expectations before the training versing what I got on ground, my personal experiences, new practical skills and lessons learned. It also contains the challenges during the course of my training which included among others; having to move long distance to and fro training place, unfriendly weather sometimes like heavy rains and extreme sun heat on some days.
Chapter four is summarized with key conclusions from the industrial training experience, general observations about which the sector of NUCAFE operates from and Suggestions/recommendations following logically from the conclusions
