Training Courses
List of Courses Offered
  • Dairy Management:
    Animal Health, including Mastitis Control, animal Nutrition, Feeds and Feeding, Herd Management, Pasture Management, Record Keeping, Clean Milk Production, Milking Procedures and  Sanitation, servicing of Milking Machines
  • Poultry Production:  
    Brooding of Baby Chicks, Feeding Regimes, General Management of Broilers, Poultry House Design
  • Greenhouse Vegetable Production:
    what is hydroponics?  What is Humus? Using Humus,  Humus / Sand Mixture,  acquiring seedlings, Planting seedlings,   Caring the Crops, Harvesting
  • Dairy Products Manufacture:
    Milk as an important food, Benefits of Milk, Making Yogurt, Making Cottage Cheese, Paneer as a Meat Substitute


Other Areas of Training Include:

  • Hay Making
  • Silage Production
  • Compost production
  • Vermiclture / Humus production
  • Biogas production
Enrolling
Information in Enrolling

All courses will be done at the SSCF Complex. Special courses could be organized for groups. Ask for Group Rates.

For further information call SSCF, ask for Mr. Rohan or Mr. Panday.

SSCF: 69 Sophia Backlands, Greater Georgetown.
Phone:+1(592) 222-2991,
+1( 592) 222-4754

Gallery
Hands-on Vegetable Production
Classroom Session
Training

St. Stanislaus Training Centre was established in 1993 with the financial assistance from Futures Fund and the Agricultural Institute of Canada. The German and Netherlands Micro Projects fund was also utilized for the acquisition of training equipment and materials. Persons trained / exposed over the years include farmers, students from primary and secondary schools as well as students from the Guyana School of Agriculture, the Regional Programme for Animal Health Assistants and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Guyana.

Since its inception, the Complex has been responsible for providing formal and informal training opportunities to over 10,000 farmers, students and others. The foundation courses have been Dairy Management and Poultry Production. Specific Dairy Management topics have included clean milk production, milking procedures and sanitation, servicing of milk machines, animal health including mastitis control, animal nutrition, feeds and feeding, herd management, pasture management and record keeping; while specific Poultry Production topics included brooding of baby chicks, feeding regimes, general management of broilers and poultry house design.

The Complex has hosted more demonstrations on haymaking, silage making, rotational grazing, organic fertilizer production, machine milking of animals, milk cooling, the manufacture of milk products and greenhouse vegetable production than any other location in Guyana. It is the only location in Guyana where one can witness humus production, compost production, biogas production and hydroponics all on the same complex.

With the support of the Guyana Micro Projects Programme, the SSCF under a project entitled, “Support to Training Activities”, has recently acquired additional equipment (computers, multimedia projector, screen and digital camera) that will be used to better facilitate training. In addition, a new set of training modules have been prepared. The SSCF is now in a better position to re-launch its training programme in a more organized way. The project is consistent with the overall objective of the GMPP as is it geared to empower farmers, technicians and students thereby assisting in the reduction of  poverty and social inequality in Guyana.

In recent years, about 300 to 500 students per year have utilized this facility for training. These numbers will increase dramatically as the new training modules are launched. Twenty seven modules have been prepared under the project of which six are DVDs. The rest are CDs. The modules embrace areas such as livestock breeds (cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, swine and rabbits); pasture production and management systems (Pasture grasses and legumes, pasture establishment and systems and grazing management systems); cost of producing meat birds; marketing poultry products; common livestock calculations; farrowing and care and management of piglets; and meat carcasses and cuts. Several student training and farmer training sessions will be done each year and there will be three to four specially organized Caricom student experience tours and farmer training opportunities each year.