DAY 1&2

DAY 1: 19th

January 2015

Sustainable Agriculture Organisation presentation on:

Landscaping in Agriculture

Climate Change and Agriculture

with the AIESEC interns at FLIC EN FLAC

DAY 2: 20th

January 2015

Site Visit at the University of Mauritius Farm

SAO first day presentation with AIESEC Interns

On Monday 19th January , 2015, with the start of the tertiary education, the Sustaianble Agriculture

Organisation SAO also started its work “ Smart Agriculture Project”. The SAO teams reached the Interns

villa around 10a.m starting with presentation of Landscaping in agriculture by Mr. Monish which last

around 45 minutes. The Interns were origin from China and Malaysia aged around 20 – 23 yrs old.

During the presentation session, they were very interactive, able to reply questions and understand the

topic discussed.

The next presentation started around 11 am presented by Mr. Vagish, Mr. Aadarsh and Miss. Anusha on

Climate Change and Agriculture. The interns gave the same respond as the previous presentation. We end

up the session with a brainstorming on “how agriculture will mitigate Climate Change”. The Session was

divided the interns into two groups.

Find the brainstorming work and photos of the Smart Agriculture Project in the attached document

Figure 1: Mr. Monish presenting on Landscaping in Agriculture

Figure 2: Miss Anusha presenting on Climate Change and Agriculture

Figure 3: Mr Adarsh presenting on Climate Change and Agriculture

Figure 4: Mr Vagish presenting on Climate Change and Agriculture

Figure 5: Team 1 brainstorming group work

Figure 6: Team 2 Brainstorming group work

Figure 7: Team 1 final work

Figure 8: Team 2 Final work

Figure 9: AIESEC interns

Figure 10: SAO , AIESEC and interns group photo

Site visit 1 Tuesday 20th

On Tuesday 20th

January 2015, the project Smart Agriculture started its first site visit at the

University of Mauritius Farm. This site visit was possible with the help and collaboration of the

Faculty of Agriculture and Mr. Pranit who is the acting farm manager. The aim of this site visit

was to show the interns how a model farm functions and how crop and livestock production can

become synergies to each other. The Interns started their visit with the dairy sector when they

had the opportunity to milk a cow for the first time. The interns then moved on to the goat and

sheep production unit. The visit continued with at the rabbit and broiler production unit where

the interns were able to know a little on how these production system functions. Following this,

they got to learn about duck production and plant nursery. The visit ended with a visit at the

orchard where the interns got the opportunity to learn a bit about local fruits. To end with,

Mr.Pranit offered the interns jack fruit as a sign of welcoming.

Figure 1: Interns at the goat and sheep production Unit

Figure 2: Interns at the rabbit production unit

Figure 3: Mr. Pranit explaining to the interns on the functioning of the farm

Figure 4: The interns visiting the orchard

Figure 5: A jack fruit treat offered by the UOM Farm