A report on skills and qualifications attained during industrial training at Kasolwe stock farm - NAGRC&DB.

Abstract

The objective of this industrial training is to make students benefit from the skills and knowledge gained from the fields, apply the knowledge they get from the classroom in the field and build confidence in the students. I held my internship at Kasolwe Stock Farm from the 28th of February 2022 to 6th May 2022. KSF is a government farm with five main enterprises i.e.; cattle, poultry, piggery, aquaculture, and nutrition. It is aimed at training farmers for producing high quality and quantity milk, beef, pork, eggs, chicken, fish and feeds. The major activities include; • Pond construction, sexing, sampling, grading, feeding, pond maintenance under the aquaculture section. • Census, disinfection of all units, inspection, treatment, isolation of sick birds, feeding, cleaning poultry units, collecting eggs, litter management in the poultry section. Feed rationing, feed mixing, postharvest handling and pasture management in the nutrition section. • Castration, pregnancy diagnosis, branding, deworming, artificial insemination, dipping, census and verification, inspection, treatment, ear tagging in the cattle section. • Spraying, inspection, and treatment, deworming, census, post mortem in goat section. The training exposed me to the practical concept of the classroom knowledge and equipped me with skills and knowledge of practice in livestock management hence pride in the effort. I recommend that the farm lobbies for a better power supply that is reliable because this was the only limiting factor in our daily farm endeavors.