Accommodation

MATIU has a standard accommodation facility to accommodate 292 full time campus students       and over 40 people at a time for short course. There is a rest house that accommodates 6 people,   with spacious sitting room, dinning room and kitchen.

       1.      Makweta hostel                                   40 students

       2.      Diploma A Hostel                               28 students

       3.      Diploma B Hostel                               40 students

       4.      Diploma D Hostel                               40 students

       5.      Pamba  Hostel                                    144 students

 Farmers’ hostel                                           40 Farmers

         8.      Total                                                   292 + 40 Farmers

        Services 

        Catering services

      The Institute can offer full balanced meals which are served in a spacious dining hall with capacityof 350 people at time. Varieties of food services are offered in response to customers’ preferences.

       Library Services

     The Institute has a library with sufficient stock of books, regular journals and other publications in Crop Science, Animal Science, Farm Management, Agricultural Engineering, Resource Management, Educational Sciences and Agricultural Extension. Services are offered daily with the exception of Saturdays, Sundays, and Public Holidays and closes at 22:00 hours.

      Multipurpose Hall and Tutorial Halls

      These are available for hire to any interested organisation. Audio-visual equipment is also provided on request.

      Consultancy

      This service to specific task can be requested through the PRINCIPAL on the following areas: energy saving stoves (construction and use, micro-enterprise development skills, tree nursery raising and woodlot establishment, participatory training methods, and any other field under crop and animal science, food production. 

      Challenges:

      The main challenges are availability of sufficient funds to meet running costs. Other challenges are coping with changes and advances in technology, economy and government policies.

      Most of practical equipment/apparatus are not available and the few that are present are outdated for   example   laboratories for Soil science and Crop Science are not well operating due to lack of some of laboratory apparatus, chemicals, and reagents etc. Some textbooks and manuals are also lacking and those present are of old editions. Unavailability of training facilities makes it difficult to assess some practical skills. 

      Conclusion

      MATIU will capture the opportunities of expanding agriculture sector and the socio-economic trends worldwide. MATIU in consultation with Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives will continue efforts to make sure there is adequate supply of required human and physical resources to provide quality training and other related services provided by the institute.