Industrial training report carried out at national semi arid resources research institute [NaSARRI], Serere under different programs on crop production and management.

Abstract

Industrial training aims at equipping students with practical skills of what they have been fought theoretically. This report contains various activities carried out during internship. NaSARRI was started as an experimental station in 1920, later in 1992 SARRI took and in 2005 NARO took over up to date. It is mandated to undertake research in crop production for semi-arid systems. NaSARRI conducts research on finger millet, pearl millet, sorghum, sun flower, groundnuts, cotton, cow peas, pegion pea, animal traction, soil economic and marketing, emerging semi-arid issues. This report covers five programs e.g. Dry land legumes, oil crops, fibre crops, farm management, cereals program. The following activities were carried out, breeding which is the purposeful manipulation of plant species to create plant phenotypes with desired characteristics. Emasculation. This is the removal of the male part of the flower' Selfing is the breeding practice where by a farmer can tend to protect the plant from being contaminated. Crossing is the process of transferring pollen grains from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another flower but of the same species, Seed bulking, pest and disease identification, seed counting and field marking. In conclusion, the training was done successfully and I learnt how to carry out field marking, crossing, selfing and pest and disease identification. I recommend the management of NaSARRI to recruit more technicians at least two per program to avoid missing being attended because of the absence of the technician.