DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

The course provides students with the introduction to communication skills, writing skills and an introduction to HIV and AIDS, the course further goes a head to discourse writing, presentations spread and control measures of HIV/AIDS. The students will also be taught the oral communication skills, agricultural work environment, impact and interventions of HIV/AIDS

The course introduces students to Agricultural Mechanization, tools and equipment, farm power and supply, farm tractor and its implements, farm power supply, farm tractor and its implements, appropriate technologies, designing of farm tools, implements and equipment, farming in urban and peri-urban setting, mushroom growing, safety precautions to machine and the operator and precautionary measures during farming operations.

The course introduces students to agribusiness,  creativity and innovations in agribusiness, business opportunity, starting and sustaining Agribusiness, planning a business, managing a business, , customer care and agribusiness ethics, Demand and supply, agricultural credit and financing financial management, factors of production, product costing and agribusiness records, risks and uncertainties in agriculture, cooperatives, SACCOs, village savings and loan associations (VSLA)

The course introduces students to Processing and value addition, marketing of farm products/services, handling and management of animal products, value addition to animal products, fish processing, preservation and marketing, developing new products on the farm market research agricultural tourism.

Students studying this course unit will be introduced to livestock improvement, breeding selection, management of breeding stock, reproductive system of poultry and cattle, breeding systems, introduction to Animal health and nutrition, Animal feed formulation, pasture establishment and management, preservation of pastures

This is a purely practical course unit and student will engage in all the activities on the farm and the community. This involves a combination of subjects’ knowledge, process skills and transferable abilities. Trainees have to apply classroom knowledge and skills proactively in a real-life context for an extended period of time. Each trainee will be required to run a project outside the 5 classroom time. At the end of every term, a trainee should have a visible real life project on the ground to be authenticated by Bugema University and UBTEB. Assessment shall be made based on both the process involved and the final product. A team of assessors from UBTEB will be moving around to assess the implementation, authenticity, and progression of the projects. As extension workers to be, trainees should always be prepared to make presentations on how one/a group began to where it is.

The course introduces students to agroforestry, tree nursery, establishment and management, bee keeping and management, agroforestry component interactions, flower, and ornamental production, farm waste disposal and management, sustainable Agriculture practices, productive utilization of wetlands.