Lakshaya Beeharee

* Lead operation teams for daily irrigation operations and for the optimisation of our water quotas.

* Involved in the planning of maintenance of our irrigation systems.

* Involved in administrative activities such as data entries for the contractual labour, monitoring our daily water use, use of the canepro application for our plan schedule to communicate with other departments

* Digitalising our exisiting pipe networks on a masterplan with use of digital tools such as QGIS and QField

* Carrying out the use of remote control of pivots as part of a trial for future automatisation

* Involved in operations in both the Irrigation Department and the Agronomy Department

* Conducted practical experiments for weed management and cane varieties

* Assisted in calibration of knapsacks and boom sprayers before herbicide application

* Assisted the testing of the brix on fields

* Involved in administrative tasks such repartitioning of CEB costs based on the pump operations and daily data entries for irrigation planning

* Follow-ups on the ripener application and organising irrigation of the ripened parcels

* Involved in effluent management for irrigation during the harvest period and constant follow-ups to document all the use of effluents from different bassins and accross different irrigation systems

*Involved in quality checks during dripperline installations

* Learnt about the sugar cane cultivation steps

* Appointed with the Agronomy and Irrigation Department

* Assisted in the daily operations of the two departments - Planning of irrigation operations, follow-ups on elongation

* Learnt about the digital tools such as QGIS, QField, Trimble used by the Agronomy department

* Participated in the weed identification, orange rust and brown rust during field visits

* Planned activities with contractors for the rehabilitation of all the irrigation pump houses

* Collaborated in the DeSIRA Work Package 3 funded by the European Union

* Focus of my internship was reduction and recovery of food losses and food waste to improve food security

* Helped in conducting awareness campaigns, seminars, focus groups with different stakeholders

* Designed awareness materials such as bookmarks, banners, posters and videos

* Conducted a survey with the general public to understand on Food waste at Household level

* Collaborated with chefs for the creation of a recipe book on : Valorizing food leftovers and Imperfect Fruits & Vegetables.

* Collaborating with private stakeholders to understand the food waste reduction strategies adopted by different industries in Mauritius

* Proper recording and documentation of all events organised for the creation of the DeSIRA WP3 website

* Assisted the compliance team in the verification of stock inventories

* Assisted in the retail shrinkage analysis

* Analysis of the pH of water samples from the retail outlets

* Participated in food safety checks in retail shops

* Participated in the Food Safety Training of Staffs from different departments of different retail outlets