Bukalasa Agricultural Training Institute
Bukalasa Agricultural College was founded in 1920 as a Cotton Breeding Centre and since then, partly via mergers with other institutes, developed into the current institute that provides agricultural education in a broad range of fields. Since 1991 Bukalasa Agricultural College is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Sports. The college receives substantial funding from the Danish government for rehabilitation of the facilities en reviewing the curricula.
Curriculum
Since 2000, the college offers a two-year Diploma and Certificate course in:
Crop Production and Management
Animal Production and Management.
The curriculum is under review. It is the intention to include the more traditional courses in the new curriculum, including:
Dairy Science and Technology, Poultry Production and Management, Horticulture, Floriculture, Leather Science and Technology
Tailor made course of 2 to 4 weeks’ duration are programmed starting August of each year:
Poultry, Dairy production, Livestock feed mixing, Pig production, Horticulture, Apiary ( bee keeping), Sustainable agriculture
Bukalasa Agricultural College is an institute that provides agricultural education in a broad range of fields. The mission of the college is to produce competent professionals and practitioners with positive attitudes to engage in the delivery of quality services in agricultural and agro-industrial development.
The college envisions an institution of impeccable reputation in the participatory development of the most relevant and gender-responsive knowledge, skills and attitudes contributing to qualitative leaps in the performance of the agricultural sector in Uganda.
The college offers a two-year Diploma and Certificate course in: Crop production and management; Animal production and management. The curriculum is under review and the intention to include the more traditional courses in the new curriculum, including: Dairy science and technology; Poultry production and management; Horticulture; Floriculture; and Leather science and technology.
The ongoing courses.
◾Diploma in crop Production and Management
◾Diploma in Animal Production and Management
◾Diploma in Agri-business Management
◾Diploma in Horticulture production and Management
◾Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
◾Certificate in crop Production and Management
◾Certificate in Animal Production and Management
◾Certificate Horticulture production and Management The curriculum review is on the courses in Diary science and technologies at certificate and diploma levels
Contacts
Academic registrar
0782 632 739, 0782 893 454.