Masoud Kipanya is wrong about SUA

[Mzeeba]

hebu weka courses za agribusiness......

Bachelor of Science Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Curricular​

SEMESTER I
Core Courses: (Numbers on brackets are credit hours)
AEA 101: Introductory Agricultural Economics (2)
AEA 104: Introduction to Micro and Macro Economics (2)
MB 100: Mathematics (2)
CIT 100: Introduction to Microcomputers (2)
SC 100: Communication Skills (2)

Elective Courses:
EE 101: Basic sociology (1)
AE 101: Principles of Agricultural Engineering (1)
DS 100: Theories and Principles of Development (1)
CS ___: Principles of Crop Production (2)

SEMESTER 2
Core Courses:
AEA 103: Principles of Agricultural Development (2)
AEA 102: Introduction to Agribusiness (2)
AEA 105: Principles of Accounting (2)
AEA ___: Mathematics for Economics (2)
MB 101: Introductory Statistics (2)

Elective Courses:
FT 100: Introduction to Food Science (1)
EE 105: Principles of Administration and Management (1)
CIT 200: Computing Applications (2)
EE 102: Introduction Anthropology (1)
SS 100: Agrometerology (1)
AEA __: Business Mathematics (2)
AS 103: Introduction to Animal Production and Management (2)

SEMESTER 3
Core Courses:
AEA 201: Production economics (2)
AEA 202: Agricultural Marketing Management (2)
AEA 205: Microeconomics (1)
AEA 208: Statistics for Social Science (2)
AEA 210: Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship Development (2)

Elective Courses:
HT 101: Principles and practice of horticulture (2)
AEA 202: Agricultural Marketing (1)
EE 104: Agricultural Extension (1)
FT ___: Food Storage and Distribution (2)

SEMESTER 4
Core Courses:
AEA 200: Agribusiness Skills I (2)
AEA 204: Farm Management and Accounting (2)
AEA 206: Macroeconomics (1)
AEA 207: Agricultural Price Analysis (2)
AEA 209: Economics Survey Methods (1)

Elective Courses:
DS 200: Alternatives and Interventions Strategies in Development (2)
CS 204: Principles of Agronomy (2)
EE 206: Agricultural Admin. And Management (2)
SS 201: Introduction to Soil Science (2)
EE 205: Programme Planning and Evaluation (2)

SEMESTER 5
Core Courses:
AEA 301: Agribusiness Skills II (2)
AEA 302: Operations Research (2)
AEA 303: Agribusiness finance and Credit Management (2)
AEA 305: Agribusiness Project Appraisal and Evaluation (2)
AEA 309: Econometrics (2)

Elective Courses:
AEA 304: Business Strategy (2)
AEA 310: Agricultural Policies (1)
HE 310: Food and Nutrition Security (1)
DS 300 : Planning and Management of Development (2)
AE 206: Technologies for Crop and Livestock Production and Processing (1)

SEMESTER 6
Core Courses:
AEA 300: Special Project (3)
AEA 306: Human resource management (2)
AEA 307: Resource and environmental economics (2)
AEA 308: Economic development and planning (1)
AEA 311: Business laws and ethics (2)
AEA 312: International agricultural trade (1)

Elective Courses:
PS 301 Environmental impact assessment (1)
CIT 300: Information and Communication Management for Agricultural Professionals (2)
AE 301: Applied Decision Support Systems (1)
AEA 314: Electronic Commerce (1)
AEA 313: New Institutional economics (2)

 

[Mtabiri]

Safi sana Mzeeba

 

[Akili Unazo!]

Jamani hata mkisema hiki chuo ni uozo mtupu utakuta Professor mzima wa hicho chuo baadala ya kuwekeza kwenye kilimo bora kama wafanyavyo huko botswana wao wanwekeza kwenye mabaa na mageust

 

[mTz]

Kudos Mzeeba, the course contents shows why SUA graduates can be employed in a wide array of jobs due to their versatility.

Now, back to the cartoon, Kipanya may be right or wrong depending on which angle one decides to view the whole issue.

He may be right in the sense that despite having poor agricultural productivity most of graduates of agriculture and allied sciences are not employed in activities directly related to agriculture. But are there enough job opportunities to absorb all graduates? even if they are there, do they remunerate amply compare to other potential employment opportunities (banking, microfinance etc)?

He may be wrong in the sense that most of the jobs now want people with the right attitude and the rest is provided through on-job training to re-orient the candidate to fit in whatever the employer want. Recently there was an advert in one of the local newspapers where NMB or NBC was seeking to recruit management trainees from any background provided they possess a GPA of 3.8 and above.

Angalizo:
I find the criticism leveled against Shambani graduates totally uncalled for. Those guys came with a new idea, i.e. instead of getting employed in banks etc ("misplacing their expertise" as it is argued here) they decided to venture into dairy business. Now they are buying over 200 litres of milk from Ngerengere community, paying over 100,000 USD! Can't we see that as trickle down effect?. check out more here BiD Network - Expansion of Shambani Graduates Milk Processing Enterprise They were even recognised internationally where they won Yara award in 2008 The Yara Prize Laureates 2008

 

[Mzeeba]

rural sociology ni kasehemu tu ka programme ya degree and hiyo unayosema economics hata mimi Prof.Mlambiti alinifundisha but it is not enough kujiita mimi mwanauchumi kwa kuwa nimesoma kozi moja ya economics!!! we need proffesionals katika kila field...Mbona hatujaona madaktari toka muhimbili wamekuwa ma loan officer bank?? then between us and you nani mwenye mtazamo hasi..Think!!!

Dear Kigogo,
I get an impression you are out of touch with realities at SUA. You might be an Alumni of the university but I am not sure you have taken trouble to check back what has changed since you left. Since 1998/1999 a new degree B.Sc. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness (AEA) has been established. Before the establishment of this degree program B.Sc. Agriculture students used to opt in there 3rd year towards rural economics. Legendary Prof. Mlambiti and many others had been the force towards the establishment of this new degree program. If during your study years at SUA you only attended one economics course by Prof. Mlambiti it is obvious you have not majored in economics. and surely you are not an economist. You can see the current curricular for B.Sc. AEA in page 11 of this thread in which rural sociology is not in the list. Please make your judgment after you have familiarized yourself with current information. Provide evidence for us to support your argument that there are no economists coming out of SUA.

Second, you should know that good loans are among the major sources of profit for any bank. That said; loan officers are thus very important elements in making banks realize this profit. A bank needs a loan officer who is well versed in the nature of business clients are seeking loans for. If the loan needed is agricultural based (inputs provision, production, processing of agricultural products, marketing and many more) then you need a loan officer well versed in agricultural economics to evaluate and appraise the business before a loan is given. If a loan needed is engineering based then defiantly you will need a loan officer who is well versed in engineering economics to evaluate and appraise the loan. Hence having an agricultural economist working as a loan officer is more logical to a country where agriculture dominates major businesses. When you say you are yet to see doctors who are loan officers that is not a counter argument for agricultural economist being loan officers. Truly there are many professions you have not seen working as loan officers, but that does not support the argument agricultural economists or engineering economists should not work as loan officers. To borrow from you "...Think!!!"

This post does not intend to argue if the cartoonist Kipanya is right or wrong. It is simply a reply to Kigogo post No.535266

 

[Nyati]

Kama kulima kalimeni wenyewe
ANGALIA SCENARIO HII.

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Hivyo tusiangalie tulipoangukia bali tulipojikwaa, HATUTHAMINI kilimo ndo maana wahuni wanakandiana kwa kuitana wakulima.
MIMI SIENDI nendeni wenyewe nasema. *&%^$%#@!@~#>?<}{_}} zenu

 

[Nyuki]

vision and mission ya SUA nini? it good to be specific in proffession other proffessional conflict will be created,

 

[MzalendoHalisi]

labda nikujibu kwa swali? je si kwamba wanaitwaga interview na kupambanishwa na SUA products then wanakuwa hoi? Unajua ni jinsi gani graduates wa vyuo kama CBE, IFM na TIA wanavyokuwaga wababaishaji na hawasomi wanategemea kununua mitihani? Fanya research kwanza ujue ubora wa products za vyuo vikuu kabla ya kuandika matope kama uliyoandika?

Shangazi,

Kaazi kweli kweli!

Mapinduzi ya kilimo Tz je yatachochewa na products za SUA kuajiriwa ktk benki??

Tuna njia ndefu Tz tunakoelekea!

 

[mTz]

vision and mission ya SUA nini? it good to be specific in proffession other proffessional conflict will be created,

About the University
The history of Sokoine University of Agriculture dates back to 1965 when it started as an Agricultural College offering diploma training in the discipline of agriculture. With the dissolution of the University of East Africa and the consequent establishment of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in July 1970, the College was transformed into a Faculty of Agriculture of UDSM and thereby started offering Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. In 1974, the Division of Forestry was established and hence the faculty was named Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The introduction of Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 1976 and the establishment of the Division of Veterinary Science, the Faculty was re-named “Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Sciences”. The Faculty was on the 1st of July 1984 transformed, through Parliamentary Act No. 6 of 1984, into a full-fledged University and became known as Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) with the Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Currently SUA has four faculties namely; the Faculty of Agriculture (FoA), Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation (FoF & NC), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVM) and the Faculty of Science (FoS), the latter which was established in 2001. Other academic units include the Directorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies (DRPGS), Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Development Studies Institute (DSI), Computer Centre (CC), Pest Management Centre (PMC), SUA Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SCSRD) and the Sokoine National Agriculture Library (SNAL). SUA also hosts the African Seed Health Centre and Virtual Centre known as “Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance”.

The university which is located in Morogoro Municipality has 3,350 ha of land for training, research and production in Morogoro municipality; 840 ha of forest land in Arusha; 320 ha of virgin forest for research in Usambara Mountains in Tanga and 500 ha of miombo woodlands in Kitulanghalo in Morogoro region. The university has for campuses namely, the Main Campus within Morogoro municipality; Solomon Mahlangu Campus (SMC) in Morogoro municipality; SUA Training Forest (SUATF) Olmotonyi in Arusha region and Mazumbai Forestry Reserve in Tanga region. The University also has one Constituent College, the Moshi University College of Cooperatives and Business Studies (MUCCoBS) which is located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Moshi Municipality.

SUA’s academic business is guided by the university’s vision and missions as well as the Corporate Strategic plan (2005-2010), the latter that spells out plans in keeping with university’s core missions and functions as well as the need to remain competitive. The Vision of the university is “To become a center of excellence and a valued member of the global academic community in agriculture and other related fields with emphasis on implementing practical skills, entrepreneurship, research and integration of basic and applied knowledge in an environmentally friendly manner”. The vision is guided through the mission, which is “To promote development through training, research, extension, provision of services to the public and private sector in an environmentally friendly manner”.

SUA is currently offering 20 undergraduate and 33 postgraduate programmes in agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine, environmental sciences and allied disciplines. To date, SUA is the only university, amongst 34 universities and university colleges in Tanzania that offers degree programmes in the broad field of agriculture. On the other hand, MUCCoBS offers non-degree, Bachelor and postgraduate programmes in the disciplines of cooperative and business studies.

SUA’s main research objective is to provide leadership in basic and applied research in order to generate science evidence knowledge and innovations that respond to contemporary and emerging needs. SUA thus emphasizes that research becomes linked to development and societal issues. Research, outreach and consultancy services are driven by trained agricultural and natural resource manpower base that comprises 452 academic staff, out whom 50% have PhD qualifications. Research capacity at SUA is further enhanced through collaborative research projects, which are supported by more than 50 memoranda of understanding. Currently, there are a number of ongoing research projects.

For more information please contact:The Vice-Chancellor
Sokoine University of Agriculture,
P.O. Box 3000 CHUO KIKUU, Morogoro, Tanzania
Tel. +256 23 2603511-4,
Fax +255 23 2604573 Email: vc@suanet.ac.tz

Source: SUA website Sokoine University of Agriculture

 

[Mzeeba]

i can categorically tell you i accessed one of their proposed they applied for a grant with DFID where i work as a technical Advisor and i find them not impressing and even meets the minimum requirements to qualify for the grant...so i know what iam saying ..it is not blal blal...the fact is SUA graduates are not ready to work in their areas of specializations.by the way Iam a graduate and iam working in my area of specialization...Tena nilisoma ile SUA ya zamani si hii yenu ya siku hizi ya semester iliyokuwa diluted..

Ndugu Kigogo
Truly I now believe you reach conclusions without doing any kind of research. I will however give you the benefit of doubt that you accessed a proposal by Shambani Graduate Enterprise Ltd (SGE). So just by meeting these guys in Nairobi and the document you accessed made you reach a conclusion they are not impressive, and they are just after donor money? That is very thin. If you could just have Goggled Shambani Milk you could have know how serious this guys from SUA are. These are among the first products of B.Sc. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, who decided to venture into agriculture against all odd to show it can be done.

Ndugu Kigogo, I will show you all that you said about Shambani is BLAH BLAH with capital letters. Here are facts about SGE that you might need to know before you level any accusation about them.

1.From March to June 2009 SGE has paid to about 62 farmers a total of TAS 12,544,305 for milk supplies. This average to about TAS 50,500 per month per farmer. Note this data is just from one milk collection center (Source; MD SGE). I believe this is what others call positive impact on communities.

2.At present SGE have 20 staffs. This number is expected to increase as newly installed machines have increased the processing capacity of SGE to 4000 litres per day.

3.In 2008 they won the YARA Prize for African Green Revolution 2008 for their respective contributions to the African Green Revolution through improving food security and developing agricultural value chains. They were awarded USD $100,000. See Overview - Prizewinners since 2005

4.The same SGE you scorn were First Winner of Business plan competition organized by Business In Development (BiD Network) in collaboration with University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship Centre (UDEC) in 2007. See BiD Network - Finalists BiD Challenge Tanzania 2007

5.They were also Satellite winner of 2007 global business plan competition organized by Business In Development (BiD Network) in Amsterdam, Netherlands in December, 2007. see BiD Network - Expansion of Shambani Graduates Milk Processing Enterprise

6.In the same year they were Second winner of 2007 Believe Begin Become Business (BBB) plan competition organized by Technoserve funded by Google.Org. Place: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in December, 2007

Now Ndugu Kigogo how can these same people recognized internationally for their innovativeness, hard work, determination and successes be just wasanii to you? Being a SUA Alumni this should have raise your curiosity to want to know more about them rather than blah blah ulizotoa hapo juu. Almost all this information is available in the internet. And for more information you could have easily call them or visit their plant in Morogoro. (I just called their MD to fill gaps on information already in public domain). Know the facts then render your judgment.

DFID has worked very well with SGE to train livestock keepers in Ngerengere Morogoro. It is through these trainings livestock keepers can now supply good quality milk to SGE. As a technical advisor to DFID you might already know this. If that is the case why are you misleading the public? Is this just a matter for you to score points?

Then how should we judge you when you post “…the fact is SUA graduates are not ready to work in their areas of specializations…”???

 

[reyla]

Tatizo watu hatupendi kuambiwa ukweli sasa wewe ina maana unaenda SUA kusoma BVM ili ufanye kazi bank? Sio kweli yaani hapo mtu unakosa kazi kwenye field yako ndio unafanya chochote.Masoud alikuwa na maana nzuri tu.

 

[Nduka]

Ndugu Kigogo
Truly I now believe you reach conclusions without doing any kind of research. I will however give you the benefit of doubt that you accessed a proposal by Shambani Graduate Enterprise Ltd (SGE). So just by meeting these guys in Nairobi and the document you accessed made you reach a conclusion they are not impressive, and they are just after donor money? That is very thin. If you could just have Goggled Shambani Milk you could have know how serious this guys from SUA are. These are among the first products of B.Sc. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, who decided to venture into agriculture against all odd to show it can be done.

Sasa waende kuwachomoa wenzao kutoka wimbi la cheap labour huko mabenki, sacos na twisheni senta za ilala mchikichini wakakamue ng'ombe ndio kodi za wananchi zilivyokusudiwa kutumika.

 

[Njowepo]

Masoud yuko right lengo kutuonya on resource missallocation tunaongelea uhaba wa wataalamu wa kilimo kumbe wengine wako bank.
Serkali ijifunze kuwatumia vijana kulingana na fani zao otherwise wata end up kusahau ata walichojifunza at the end of the day.

 

[mTz]

Jamani hata mkisema hiki chuo ni uozo mtupu utakuta Professor mzima wa hicho chuo baadala ya kuwekeza kwenye kilimo bora kama wafanyavyo huko botswana wao wanwekeza kwenye mabaa na mageust

Your argument is wrong, does it mean that a graduate in banking studies should open a bank? hell no! With investment every person has a right to invest where s/he think will make money within a reasonably short period. Agriculture in Tanzania has never been so attractive to invest, ask yourself why majority of FDI goes to mining, tourism etc and almost none to agriculture. All in all, we still have a very good number of Professors who have invested in large scale diary cattle and diary production, animal feed production (Tanfeeds company is owned by a SUA Prof.) just to mention a few.

 

[Ubungoubungo]

kwa hivyo tu aliishia form three, angefika University angekuwaje? hawa watu wa sua mi wanachoniuzi zaidi ni kukaa mijini wakati wamesomea udaktari wa ng'ombe na kuku. kazi kwelikweli. yuko right kabisa.

 

[mndundu pori]

hawa watu wa sua mi wanachoniuzi zaidi ni kukaa mijini wakati wamesomea udaktari wa ng'ombe na kuku. .

UbungoUbungo kama kuna nafasi za kazi ambazo hazijajazwa za huo udaktari wa kuku na ng'ombe zitangaze hapa watu watatuma maombi. Sina data kwa hiyo siwezi kuwa na uhakika kama kuna nafasi zimetangazwa zikakosa SUA graduates. Assumption (open to research) ni kuwa watu wa SUA washajaza hizo kazi na wanakuja kamua hizo zenu mjini. Kinachouma ni uwezo wa hao watu wa SUA kwenye interview unaowafanya waajiri wawachukue badala yenu; hapa kimsingi ukimlaumu graduate wa SUA si sahihi sana..unasemaje?

Kigogo una matatizo makubwa. Umesema wewe ni technical advisor wa DFID na uliangalia proposED ya Shambani na kuikuta haiko up to standards..Proposed ni kitu gani hicho? Kinaonekana? Kama ulimaanisha proposal na mimi nina mashaka na kazi yako hapo DFID, typing error zipo ila kwenye keyboard 'ed' na 'al' kuzichanganya ni lazima uwe bingwa wa kubahatisha!! SUA hebu kachukueni kazi hiyo hayuko competent huyu Kigogo!! Kama kiingereza chenyewe kinakushinda utatambua vipi kama proposal iko vizuri au la? Au iliandikwa kwa kiswahili?

 

[Nanren]

Ndo maaana hata system za mabank zikilala zinalala jumla mtu kasomea mizizi SUA unamwajili kitengo cha IT kwenye bank wapi na wapi nyie nenda hapo NBC angalia system zao zilivyo za long time mtu hajui IT anagusa gusa ikizimika ndo jumla siku nzima hakuna kazi tumeona hii na hili lipo kila ukienda unaambiwa system hazijaamka.

Statements kama hizi za kusema "mtu kasomea mizizi SUA anaajiriwa Bank" ni za kitoto and very misleading. Mtu wa namna hii inashindikana hata kumlaumu kwa sababu inaonekana ni one of the many who are ignorant about SUA. Let me just enlighten him/her that SUA offers a degree in Informatics (I doubt if he'll understand). Informatics is all about ICT. SUA also offers degrees in Tourim management, even a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in Rural Development.These are not about mizizi. In fact hata degrees zinazohusiana na Kilimo kama vile Bsc Agriculture, Bsc Horticulture, Bsc Animal Science hazifundishi kuhusu mizizi bali hufundisha sciences behind Crop and animal production. Pia lazima ufahamu kuwa Agriculture is not the same as farming. Agriculture is multidiciplinary in nature including economics, engineering, animal production, Education and Extension, Soil Science, Crop Production, Nutrition, food science, administration etc. Usije shangaa mtu kasoma Agriculture SUA ukakuta anajua Sociology kama mtu aliyesoma BA sociology chuo kingine. Halafu, pamoja na kwamba kuna kazi za kujuana juana hapa nchini, unafikiri ni watu wangapi kutoka SUA wanaoweza kuwa na connections za kupata kazi, ukitilia maanani kwa ujumla nature ya watu wanaosoma SUA? Rather than being connected, it is the nature of the curricullum and the quality of the SUA graduates that have been impressing on the potential employers. These graduates have always delivered once employed. I know a number of holders of BSc agriculture who are working as human resource officers based on the administration modules they studied at SUA and they are working quite well. Talk of marketing, is there a difference in principle, in marketing elephant tusks, logs, food, from that of airtime? Basi usishangae mtu alipata dose nzito ya marketing akiwa anasomea BSc Forestry pale SUA akawa marketing manager wa vodacom!

 

[Kalunguyeye]

Naomba mnisaidie hivi mtu kufanya kazi Bank anatakiwa asomee nini wajameni???

 

[Kigogo]

Ndugu Kigogo
Truly I now believe you reach conclusions without doing any kind of research. I will however give you the benefit of doubt that you accessed a proposal by Shambani Graduate Enterprise Ltd (SGE). So just by meeting these guys in Nairobi and the document you accessed made you reach a conclusion they are not impressive, and they are just after donor money? That is very thin. If you could just have Goggled Shambani Milk you could have know how serious this guys from SUA are. These are among the first products of B.Sc. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, who decided to venture into agriculture against all odd to show it can be done.

Ndugu Kigogo, I will show you all that you said about Shambani is BLAH BLAH with capital letters. Here are facts about SGE that you might need to know before you level any accusation about them.

1.From March to June 2009 SGE has paid to about 62 farmers a total of TAS 12,544,305 for milk supplies. This average to about TAS 50,500 per month per farmer. Note this data is just from one milk collection center (Source; MD SGE). I believe this is what others call positive impact on communities.

2.At present SGE have 20 staffs. This number is expected to increase as newly installed machines have increased the processing capacity of SGE to 4000 litres per day.

3.In 2008 they won the YARA Prize for African Green Revolution 2008 for their respective contributions to the African Green Revolution through improving food security and developing agricultural value chains. They were awarded USD $100,000. See Overview - Prizewinners since 2005

4.The same SGE you scorn were First Winner of Business plan competition organized by Business In Development (BiD Network) in collaboration with University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship Centre (UDEC) in 2007. See BiD Network - Finalists BiD Challenge Tanzania 2007

5.They were also Satellite winner of 2007 global business plan competition organized by Business In Development (BiD Network) in Amsterdam, Netherlands in December, 2007. see BiD Network - Expansion of Shambani Graduates Milk Processing Enterprise

6.In the same year they were Second winner of 2007 Believe Begin Become Business (BBB) plan competition organized by Technoserve funded by Google.Org. Place: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in December, 2007

Now Ndugu Kigogo how can these same people recognized internationally for their innovativeness, hard work, determination and successes be just wasanii to you? Being a SUA Alumni this should have raise your curiosity to want to know more about them rather than blah blah ulizotoa hapo juu. Almost all this information is available in the internet. And for more information you could have easily call them or visit their plant in Morogoro. (I just called their MD to fill gaps on information already in public domain). Know the facts then render your judgment.

DFID has worked very well with SGE to train livestock keepers in Ngerengere Morogoro. It is through these trainings livestock keepers can now supply good quality milk to SGE. As a technical advisor to DFID you might already know this. If that is the case why are you misleading the public? Is this just a matter for you to score points?

Then how should we judge you when you post “…the fact is SUA graduates are not ready to work in their areas of specializations…”???

the point is simple and clear,wanzuoni wa SUA ni wavivu wa kwenda kufanya kazi zao za ubwana na ubibi shamba...hilo ndio eneo lenu la kujidai maana mmefunzwa hayo.

 

[Kigogo]

Kudos Mzeeba, the course contents shows why SUA graduates can be employed in a wide array of jobs due to their versatility.

Now, back to the cartoon, Kipanya may be right or wrong depending on which angle one decides to view the whole issue.

He may be right in the sense that despite having poor agricultural productivity most of graduates of agriculture and allied sciences are not employed in activities directly related to agriculture. But are there enough job opportunities to absorb all graduates? even if they are there, do they remunerate amply compare to other potential employment opportunities (banking, microfinance etc)?

He may be wrong in the sense that most of the jobs now want people with the right attitude and the rest is provided through on-job training to re-orient the candidate to fit in whatever the employer want. Recently there was an advert in one of the local newspapers where NMB or NBC was seeking to recruit management trainees from any background provided they possess a GPA of 3.8 and above.

Angalizo:
I find the criticism leveled against Shambani graduates totally uncalled for. Those guys came with a new idea, i.e. instead of getting employed in banks etc ("misplacing their expertise" as it is argued here) they decided to venture into dairy business. Now they are buying over 200 litres of milk from Ngerengere community, paying over 100,000 USD! Can't we see that as trickle down effect?. check out more here BiD Network - Expansion of Shambani Graduates Milk Processing Enterprise They were even recognised internationally where they won Yara award in 2008 The Yara Prize Laureates 2008

200litres and paying 100,000 USD= usd 500/litre....duuuh kweli hawa ni shambani graduate and kweli tunaona matunda ya SUA...hongereni sana maana kweli hawa misplace expertise zao