The Continuing Agricultural Education Center(CAEC) has hosted 14 participants from Zombo and Lamwo District Local Governments training them on soil kit use and sustainable land management starting from 30/10/2018 to 02/11/2018 basically with the module objectives of;
- Understanding the soil fertililty status in Uganda and its implication on agricultural production.
- Diadnose soil based nutrient deficiencies and toxicities commonly found in crops.
- Equipped to address the soils problems commonly experienced in the field.
- Skilled to implement sustainable land management.
The workshop is being facilitated by prof. Moses Tenywa and the service providers are Public-Private-Partnership between AGINSBA and Makerere University.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries(MAAIF) is implementing the Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP) whose development objective is to raise on-farm productivity, production and marketable volumes of maize, beans, cassava, rice and coffee in specified geograhical clusters in Uganda. The Ministry intends to use part of project funds to conduct a training to trainees(TOT) for 72 technical staff on Intergrated Production and Pest Management(IPPM) for the five commodities between May and June 2019. It is desired that the training is conducted and certified by Makerere University.