SUA is Nurturing Competent Aquaculture Graduates!   Our Model Training Farm (MTF) offered a dynamic five-week Field Practical Training (FPT) for 190+ second-year BSc Aquaculture students.   The MTF delivered hands-on experiences from producing tilapia and African catfish, alternative low-cost fish feeds (Azolla, Black Soldier Flies, redworms), and integrating fish farming with horticulture for enhanced...Read More

This was a third Model Training Farm department meeting which was held on 26th February 2024 at African Seed, this meeting included all staff from MTF with the chairman of the meeting being the head of department Dr Newton kilasi. In the meeting various matters were discussed including those that raised from the past meetings...Read More

The Sokoine University of Agriculture recently had the pleasure of hosting passionate visitors from Finland at our Modal Training Farm Aquaculture Unit! Their purposeful visit was fueled by a desire to learn and gain insights into fish farming, collaborating with fish farmers back home. With an eagerness to absorb knowledge, they immersed themselves in the...Read More

Juncao grass is a hybrid Napier grass imported from China  whose scientific name is Pennisetum purpureum X P. typhoideum. It is usually a very tall growing grass with strong fibrous root system compared to local Napier grass found in Tanzania. At Sokoine university of Agriculture specifically the department of  Model Training Farm Juncao grass was first...Read More

The Sokoine University of Agriculture recently had the pleasure of hosting passionate visitors from Finland at our Modal Training Farm Aquaculture Unit! Their purposeful visit was fueled by a desire to learn and gain insights into fish farming, collaborating with fish farmers back home. With an eagerness to absorb knowledge, they immersed themselves in the...Read More

The Department of Model Training Farm under the College of Agriculture, Sokoine University of Agriculture, on thursday 26, received first year students 2023/2024, who were in the oriantation week,  Students got the chance to visit all the units found under the Model farm Department which are Magadu animal Unit, Aquaculture unit, Main gate and Horticulture...Read More

Wanafunzi wa mwaka wa pili katika kozi za uhandisi wa kilimo na uhandisi wa umwagiliaji, wakiwa katika masomo kwa vitendo( Field Practicals), wameshiriki katika ujenzi wa canal ya umwagiliaji katika kitengo cha bustani kilicho chini ya idara ya shamba la mafunzo. Ujenzi huo ulianza kwa kufanya vipimo mbalimbali ikiwa ni pamoja kufanya survey, pamoja na...Read More

Zanzibar Students from Benbendell secondary school and their stuff visited at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Aquaculture unit MTF acquire some of the knowledge on how farming is conducted for the beginners farmer they studied about different Aquaculture system like recycle ting Aquaculture system RAS also they study about how Nile tilapia hatchery works and...Read More

Kuanzia Leo tarehe 30/08/2023 na kuendelea idara ya shamba la mafunzo inauza ndizi za aina mbalimbali kama vile mzuzu, malindi, malembo, mshale na nyingine nyingi.   Tunawakaribisha jumuiya yote kufika katika duka la idara ya shamba la mafunzo kwa ajiri ya kujipatia ndizi nzuri kabisa Ndugu mteja unaehitaji kwa wingi pia unakaribishwa kuweka oda yako...Read More

Model Training farm (horticulture unit) under the College of Agriculture at Sokoine University of Agriculture(SUA). On 29 July 2023 we were graced to receive visitors from Sega secondary school where we received both students and staff members. The main objectives of their tour at Horticulture unit was to see various botanical plants found at Horticulture...Read More