MWALIMU NYERERE MEMORIAL ACADEMY

FIELD ATTACHMENT REPORT CONDUCTED AT TARI

BY

MZUMBWE HAPPY POSTA

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 DECLARATION

I, HAPPY MZUMBWE hereby I declare that report is my practical training which I undertook at
TARI in Mbeya region , I started my practical training at 5 September to 14 October 2022, for
surely, declare that this report is my work

Signature

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Date

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

Field attachment report ...........,......................,......,...................,,....,..,..............................i

DECLARATION.........,..........................................................................................................ii

CONTENT ................,.............................................................................................................iii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS....................................................................................................iv

LIST OF TABLE, FIGURE,MAPS AND ILLUSTRATION .........................................................v

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..........................................................................................................vi

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..........................................................................................................vii

CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................. ........1

1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION........,................................................................1

1.1 VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION.......................................

1.1.1 TARI VISION......................................................................................................................

1.1.2 TARI MISSION...................................................................................................................

1.2 OBJECTIVE AND ORGANIZATION CHART........................................................................

1.2.1 OBJECTIVE......................................................................................................................

1.2.2 ORGANIZATION CHART..................................................................................................

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 ACTUAL WORK TRAINING DONE AND DEPARTMENT DUTIES UNDERTAKEN............

2.1 DEPARTMENT AND DUTIES UNDERTAKEN.....................................................................

2.2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS ACQUIRED.................................................

2.2.1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.........................................................................................

2.2.2 SkILLS ACQUARE............................................................................................................

2 3 PROBLEM ENCOUNTED DURING FIELD PRACTICAL TRAINING................................

CHAPTER THREE................................................................................................................

3.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.................................................................

3.1 CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................

3.2 RECOMMENDATION..................................................................................................

3.2.1 RECOMMENDATION TO THE INSTITUTE............................................................

3.2.2 RECOMMENDATION TO THE ORGANIZATION........................................................

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 LIST OF ABBREVIATION

TARI - Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute

CD - Center Director

HRO - Human Resource office

CRP - crop Research program

NRMP - Natural Resources Management Program

CRI - coordinator Research and Innovation

MNMA - Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy

MATI Ministry of Agriculture Training Institute

ARI Agriculture Research Institute

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I kindly appreciate the presence of all individual to completion of this study in all of their
efforts.I would Ike to express my deepest and sincerest to all my lecture at MNMA for
hardworking to spread knowledge and skills. I have gained new knowledge.

Special thanks tomy parents for their corporation.

Also thanks giving to my supervisor Salehe Mahanyu whom kindly showed his cooperation ,
kindness assistance , lesson and direction I got from him to know how to cover stories and
other stuff concerning news reporting.

I'm also grateful to my supervisor at MNMA whom made a valuable time supervising me and
lesson that she gave me.

All thanks to my fellow students who are conducting field at mbeya thanks for all cooperation
and unit that you show during the preparation of field attachment.

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This field practical focused to build the capacity of doing work that I have learnt in class and o
practice outside physically . also to create a friendship and mutual relationship with various
people within the organization and outside he organization and to acquire skills that aims at
having an experience of doing various work concerning human resource activities and activities
of other departments which integrated with human resource department.Chapter one explain
about the background of TARI, mission and vision and also objective or function of TARI.Chapter
two explain about department and duties undertaken and chapter three explain about
conclusion and the recommendation

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 CHAPTER ONE

1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION

Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) was formerly called Agriculture Research
Institute (ARI) in which as mandated to serve the southern Highland zone of Tanzania .ARI
changed to TARI in 30th September 2016 and these changes were mainly due to changes in
government TARI was established by the parliamentary Act NO.10,2016to enhance the
strengthen of Agriculture Research syestm in Tanzania .the Act No.10,2016 is ana act to provide
for the enhencement of Agriculture Research syestm TARI has 8 sub-station in four region of
the southern Highland which re Ndengo and suluti in Ruvuma region,Igeri,Isman and
seatondale in Iringa,Mbimba,and and mitalula in Mbeya and Milundikwa in Rukwa region,
which re located in in important agro-ecological niches and farming syestm of the southern
Highland zone.also the between TARI and the Ministry of Agriculture Training Institute (MATI)
is that both are under the Ministry of Agriculture Although they did not depends on each on its
activities.so TARI was mostly established for the aim of conducting Research concerning
Agriculture activities.

The Research activities are conducted across different Agro-Ecological Zone and farming system
dominating in the Zone . focus of Research activities are based on client and demand driven
approach . Research in the Zone is supported by the Government of Tanzania , development
parterners and collaborative Research with international Research centres. Although funding is
not adequate the institute has realized substantial achievement in technology dissemination
and adoption assessment in collaboration with other stake-holders

1.1 VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION

1.1.1 TARI VISSON

 Tanzania Agricultural Research Institutes would wish to be the institute of excellence for
agricultural research in Tanzania.

1.1.2 TARI MISSION

The mission of Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute is to generate and disseminate

application of knowledge in achieving Agricultural technologies as catalyst of change in
achieving Agricultural productivity , food and nutrition security, environment sustainability and
economic growth involving stakeholders in the country and the global community.

1.2 OBJECTIVE/ FUNCTION AND ORGANIZATION CHART

1.2.1 OBJECTIVE

To conduct research activities

TARI mission is to generate and and promote application of knowledge in Agricultural

technologies as the catalyst of change in achieving Agriculture productivity ,food and nutrition
security, sustainable Agriculture and economic growth involving stakeholders in the country
and global community.

To innovate different seeds

Through current plan and strategies,TARI want to come p with new improved seeds varieties
which have high protein and edible oil content,so the intention of TARI is to develop new
soybean varieties and increase production of early generate soybean seed

To transfer technology and partnership

Technology Dissemination , communication and partnership , facilitate transfer of appropriate

Agriculture technologies , innovation, good Management practices to stakeholders, coordinate
collection, documentation and oversee implementation of Agricultural shows, exhibition,
conference and seminars so this can help to transfer technologies

To produce seeds and sales

TARI they make sure that they produce seeds with high quality according to the need f the
customers so they produce better seeds and they supply to the people who needs such seeds
so this is among f the objective or function of TARI

1.2.2 ORGANIZATION CHART

In TARI there are 96 total number of employees in which there are 45 female and 51 male

1.DIRECTOR GENERAL

The one who found at the top of TARI structure

2.CENTRE DIRECTOR

The one who responsible to direct research activities,human resource and financial resources
at the center and also to protect and maintain the centre infrastructure

3.COORDINATOR OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Is a head of research and Innovation at the centre, and also is responsible to advance centre
direct on issues related to management of centre

4.COORDINATOR OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND PARTNERSHIP

To initiate and coordinate technologies transfer and partnership activities at the centre

5.ADMINISTRATION AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT UNIT

Are responsible for keeping record all staff information's according to their scheme of service,
also are conducting long and short term plan training program of employees,to prepare staff
leave roster, preparation of staff succession planning, to collect and keep in records staff
statistics for further planning, to conduct management meeting and all Issues to be discussed,
to address employees grievance, to determine performance appraisal

6.P/S CENTRE DIRECTOR OFFIC

of corresponding email to the centre Director's office,to type and keep in records all official
document as signed by centre director

7.REGISTRY OFFICE

Sorting and organizing files, receiving and distributing letters, keeping records of staff
documents

8.OFFICE ATTENDANT

Office cleaning and environment, collection of letters and parcel from post

GUARD PROGRAM

To protect physical assets of government from thefts and damages,to record shift activities and
complaint for supervisor review

10.DRIVERS

To ensure vehicle is given regular day to day maintenance checks , ensure vehicle kept
clean ,tidy and in good working condition at all

11.HOUSE AND ENVIRONMENT

To construct and repair building framework and structure such as stairway, doorframe,
partition and after made from wood and other materials

12.WATER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Uyole management for water system management, Rehabilitation water system and intake

12.PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY DEPARTMENT

To prepare procurement plan, to execute procurement process and also arrange and
administer the receiving process

13.CROP RESEARCH PROGRAM UNIT RESPONSIBILITY

WHEAT

Conduct advanced wheat yield trial, preliminary evaluation of yield performance of germplasm
from cimmity, Data collection and analysis and interpretation.

14.BEAN AND OIL SEEDS

Production of breeder seed of targeted varieties based on the bean corridor requirements.
Plant protection data collection analysis and interpretation, research proposal writing,insect
pest control.

15.PYRETHRUM

To to coordinate pyrethrum research program in Tanzania mainland,to implement pyrethrum

research program.

16.HORTICULTURE

Training farmers at the centre and on farm , conduct horticulture research, research proposal
writing writing.

17.ROUND POTATO/ROOT AND TUBERS

Conduct advanced yield trial, coordinate potato research program in Tanzania.

18.ACCOUNTS

To batch paid vouchers, to maintain cash book ,to collect LL revenue.

19.FARM AND BUSINESS UNIT

Preparation of annual plan for seed production,farm budget preparation.

20.AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS

Training of farmers and stakeholders on Good Agriculture Practice, Germplasm maintenance.

21.FINGERMILET
To plan and conduct research on fingers millet crop, maintenance of finger Millet Germplasm,
trials management, data collection and analysis.

22.RICE AND PALM OIL

Plan conduct research on rice crop, maintenance of germplasm.

23.MAIZE CROP

Training of of farmers and stakeholders on GAP, supervisor of field trial and casual labours.

24.AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING/AGRO-MECHANIZATION

Conduct on-station and on conservation agriculture and climate smart Agriculture.

25.PLANT OPERATOR

Oversee plant adhere to safety and environment rules, monitor and troubleshoot operating
equipment.

26.NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Head of of natural resources research program ,soil fertility, crop management.

27.TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND PARTNERSHIP

Technology transfer and partnership to document the inventory of available technologies on

respective crops in the centre,to develop and maintain database of agriculture technologies.

Technology dissemination and partnership program.

To collect information on agriculture research technologies from researchers and other

stakeholders.

Knowledge management and communication program.

To re-packege and upscale technology for wide application.

28.POST HARVEST HANDLING AND PROCESSINGCapacity building to farmers andotheron the
value addition of agriculture produces.

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 ACTUAL WORK TRAINING DONE AND DEPARTMENT DUTIES UNDERTAKEN

2.1 DEPARTMENT AND DUTIES UNDERTAKEN

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

To ensure all employees follow all issues of discipline matters ;this can be like proper dressing
code and ethics matters can be supervised y human resource department.

Reviewing the list employees list employees from other departments and section

The purpose of this task is to identify demand and supply of employees to the whole
organization may help the organization to plan for the future.

Preparation of training program

In organization Human resource department conduct two types of training which is short
training and and long term training.in which short training can be conducted for new employee
in order to familiarize them with their activities and environment for the organization But long
term training conducted to the employees prepare them for higher responsibilities normally
takes a one year and above . this kind of training follow one procedure in which an employee
should write a letter to ask to be in plan of training program .the organization should reply that
letter to inform that employee is allowed to apply different college or universities. For example
we have been prepared Training program for some employee who requested to go to study

To prepare sceneority list

The Human resource department also they prepared sceneority list which show the list of
employees from the top to the bottom and their responsibilities,so through this can help the
human resource department to allocate the responsibilities of each employee in the
organization regarding their careers and their Position

Performance appraisal

Refer to the process of assessing the performance of employees .The performance appraisal
can be so as to reach the organization goal in which each employee can notify his or we
supervisor about what he or she what to do.this can be done on 1st July per each year in which
on December they can seat so as to review some objective which they made.

To prepare staff leave roster

Also this can be done by Human resource department to prepare the holidays of employees in
which the human resource manager suppose to knows about holidays of each employee per
year and if at that the employees need to be paid or not as a laws says.

2.2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS ACQUIRED

2.2.1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1.through training I leant that things are change every day even technology change for this case
training is very important in order to to make employees to adopt with new changes in their
day to day activities .also training is very important for developing career of employees mostly
long term training and also number of employees expected to undertake training should be
known

2.Through succession planning I learned that it became Easy to plan for future because
succession planning it help o determine about how many employees at retire and for which
time so this can help the Human resource department to be aware on the how many
employees who are needed at a specific time.

3.Through data cleaning leant that it became easy for employer to know the status of
employees when the information like date of birth, marital status, and and education
background are very important to employer mostly for planning.

4.Through performance appraisal I learned that it can be the source of employees to work hard
because through performance it can be the source of promotion for those employees who
performed well.

2.2.2 SKILLS ACQUIRED

Skills on how to draft and reply official letters to different client

I understand those necessary things which are needed when you draft official letter like address
for f institute, address of receiver,Date,aimed of that letter and others for example we have
prepared letters for those who not paid money for house so as to remind hem to pay

Skills of writing minutes of different meeting which conducted within the department and other
meetings which are conducted in the organization.

I understand about how to prepare different meeting which are conducted in the organization
and also things which can be done in the meeting like attendance, agendas, and others.so
meeting for each department can be done at least once per month

2.3 PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED BY STUDENT AND POSSIBLE SOLUTION

1.The support and friendly environment of TARI made me comfortable and have fewer problem
faced is to perform during my practical training.among of the problem faced is to perform
repetitive task due to the fact that there are some task which does not allowed being
performed by student mostly the task which needs to be performed in the system.

2.Electricity cut off which lead to big problem of accomplish work assigned .the solution is that
we use alternative source of electricity example the use of generator at the sometime.

3. Negative perception towards the students on preforming their duties .other employees from
other departments they believe that me as a student I can not handle same issue so the only
thing I do is to perform harder to each job which was assigned to me.

4.Little access to the system this is due to the fact that some issue in the system is very
confidential so only one person can access the system.

CHAPTER THREE
3.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

3.1 CONCLUSION

A practical training experience is very important for bidging theory and practice that are
conducted for six(6) weeks was an opportunity for putting into practice all skills obtained during
classes.This can has helped in shaping my professional towards development of my career ,
data cleaning , recruitment and selection, training programe, preparing succession planning ,
preparing staff leave Roster which creat more experience during my practical training

3.2 RECOMMENDATION

A lot of things were experienced as part of training at TARI some was absolutely new while
others were common .It is good that those areas which were not covered in class should be
included so as to bridge the gap between theory and practical.so practical training generally
was good due to the fact that slot of experience has been obtained , although there are some
few things which need consideration

3.2.1 RECOMMENDATION TO THE INSTITUTE

Introducing software in the syllabus many subject in our academy normally taught manual
contract to the current level of technology .Many organization now days use software for
performing fairly activities

Duration

Practical training take six weeks for this year to be completed . for that six weeks I spent were
very interesting but unfortunately were not enough to to learn all the organization aspects.I
advice at least 8 weeks will be enough for a student to learn about more activities of the
organization so as to become more compitate on those Human resource management activities

3.2.2 RECOMMENDATION TO THE ORGANIZATION

TARI should provide means of motivating employee like bonus and other sa well as for field
student at least for providing meals allowance .By doing so this can help to increase morale of
work to the employees

Reference.

TARI website-www.tari.go.tz