AGRICULTURAL I.T REPORT DONE AT AFRICAN REGIONAL AQUACULTURE CENTRE (ARAC)



INTRODUCTION
Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)
            The students industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is the accepted skills training programme, which forms part of the approved minimum academic standards in the various degree programmes for all the Nigerian universities. It is an effort to bridge the gap existing between theory and practice of engineering and technology, sciences, agriculture, medical, management and other professional educational programmes in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.
It is aimed at exposing students to machines and equipment, professional work methods and ways of safe-grading the work areas and workers in industrial and other organizations. It is funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria and jointly coordinated by the industrial training and (ITF) and the National Universities Commission (NUC)
The Buguma out section was established for research and training in brackish water aquaculture.

OBJECTIVE OF SIWES:
a.         To Provide an avenue for students in the Nigeria universities to acquire industrial skills and experience in their course of study;
b.         Prepare students for the work situation they are likely to meet after graduation.
c.         Expose student to work methods and techniques in handling equipment and machinery that may not be available in the universities.
            Make the transition form the University to the world of work easier, and thus enhance students’ contacts for later job placement;
e.         Provide student with opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in real work situation, thereby bridging the gap between university work and actual practices, and
f.          Enlist and strengthen employers’ involvement in the entire educational process of preparing university graduate for employment in industry.
The role of the industrial training fund (ITF)
i.          Provide logistic material needed to administer the scheme;
ii.         Compile lists of employers and available training place for industrial attachment and forward such lists to the co-coordinating Agencies (i.e. NUC, NBTE, NCCE);
iii.       Organize bi-ennial conferences and seminars on SIWEs
The role of the co-coordinating agency (NUC)
1.         Establish SIWES coordinating units.
2.         Appoint full-time industrial co-ordinators to operate the scheme at agency level;
3.         Evolve a minimum national guide programme for supervised industrial training activities for approved SIWES courses;
4.         Vet and approve SIWES master and placement lists and forward to ITF;
5.         In collaboration with ITF, compile lists of employers for institutions’ placement lists.


THE ROLE OF STUDENTS:
*          Be regular and punctual at respective place of attachment;
*          Comply with the employers’ rule and regulations;
*          Keep proper records of training activities and other assignments in the log-book;
*          Arrange their own living accommodation during the period of attachment;
*          Submit to ITF through their employer form SPE


HISTORY OF THE ARAC
The African Regional Aquaculture centre (ARAC) was established in 1960 under the sponsorship of Africa-countries in accordance with recommendation of the first Regional workshop on Agriculture planning in Africa help at Accra Ghana on February 1975.
            The centre offer both long and short  training  program example post graduate diploma in aquaculture.fish farm manage


Various unit in African Regional aquaculture centre (ARAC) and their function.
1.         Integrated unit: this unit deals in the integrated system of aquaculture which is practiced to use the waste gotten from livestock as manure for crops and fertilizer to fertilized ponds. There are different sections in this unit such as snailary section, arable section, and piggery section
2.         Hatchery unit: this unit is for artificial breeding, hatching and rearing through the early life stages of finfish and shell fish in particular. it is to support the aquaculture industry before they are transferred to on growing systems example pond to reach harvest size.
3.         Macrobrachium Unit- This unit deals with the culture of prawns. There are two species of prawn produce in ARAC.
4.         Feed mill unit: This unit deals with the formulation and production of both fish feed and live stock feed using the right ingredient in the right proportion.
5.         Buguma (Brackish water station): This unit deals with brackish water fishers and research of mangrove and aquatic plant found in brackish water environment. They also culture tilapia.
6.         Tilapia unit: this is known as family testing unit. Here different species of tilapia are cultured. This unit is mostly used for research purposes. Here tilapia is subjected to test before stocking or selling them to farmers. The kinds of test they undergo include feeding habit, growth rate and genetics 




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