CAVM Laboratories
CAVM is actually managing 7 laboratories.
which have been set up to sustain the Mission of CAVM related to teaching, research and technology transfer in crop production, animal production, soil and agriculture engineering mainly.
Thus, the main objectives of these laboratories are:
- To provide better training practice to CAVM students and to improve the quality of research for different departments of CAVM.
- To provide reliable data to farmers and other applicants, for better counselor in their quest of appropriate technologies. This is all aimed to the development, the welfare of Rwandese community the specific objectives are:
- To produce good and reliable analytical data for internal and external customers.
- To help students to develop laboratory skills and practices to develop CAVM laboratories at the level of research and reference laboratories.
- To develop highly competent human resource for laboratory development.
Laboratory
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Objectives
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Principal analyses
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Chemistry and Soils laboratory
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1. Soil testing for advising the
farmers to apply suitable organic and inorganic fertilizers,to increase crop
production.
2. Students skills development for analyzing soil physical and chemical properties 3. To test the quality of fertilizers sold in Rwanda 4. To characterize the soils of Rwanda and to prepare soil maps. 5. To test the soil microbial health for better crop production. 6. To test water and soil pollutants 7. Reclamation of salinity, alkalinity and acidity of soils. |
Physical and chemical properties
of soils, plant mineral and organic compounds determination, water and
fertilizers analysis
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Food and plant
laboratory
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1.Plant testing for
advising farmers to correct soil properties
2.Food testing nutritional value to advice producers, industrials, transformers to correct food processing operations 3.Students skills development for analyzing food properties. 4.To test the quality of food sold in Rwandan markets. 5.To characterize middle scale farms products and technologies for better productivity. 6.To test food pollutants |
Determination of plant
and food mineral and organic compounds
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Microbiology
laboratory
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1.Foods and water testing
microbiological level to advice producers, industrials, transformers to
correct food processing operations and to prevent consumers against diseases.
2.To test microbiological food pollutants and, in general, the quality of
food sold in Rwandan markets. 3.To characterize middle scale farms products
and technologies for better productivity. 4.To diagnostic domestic animal
diseases for better productivity. 5.Students skills development for analyzing
food microbiological properties and animal diseases.
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Foods, water and
beverages bacteriological analysis, diseases diagnostic.
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Plant Biology
Laboratory
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1. To diagnose plant
diseases 2. To propose effective cures against diseases diagnosed on the
basis of sensitivity of the germs in question. 3. To extract active
ingredients from medicinal plants. 4. To learn to the students how to
recognize and distinguish various types of plant pathogens.
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Detection of plant
pathogens (bacteria and fungi).Sensibility tests of pathogens to crude
extracts and active principles of plants.
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Animal Biology
laboratory
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1. Diagnose of animal
diseases to advice producers on the health of their cheptel and to protect
consumers against consumption of corrupted animal products.
2.Students skills development on animal diseases identification |
Analysis of blood,
feces and urine for diseases determination for cattle, sheep, goats, pork, rabbits,
poultry…
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Tissue culture
laboratory
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1.To help farmers and
other producers to get healthy seeds
2. To help students to learn various ways of seed production and control of environmental conditions for plants growth. |
Production of healthy
seeds, study of certain physiological characteristics of plants in green
house.
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