Bukalasa Agricultural Training Centre (BATI), also Bukalasa Agricultural College, is a public vocational training institute operated and administered by the Uganda Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).see www.bac.ac.ug [1] The institute is located in the neighborhood of Bukalasa, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2 mi),[2] Bukalasa is approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi), by road, north of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda.

[4] The institute was established by the government of Uganda in 1920, as a cotton research centre.

Over the years, through mergers with other institutions, the centre was transformed into a comprehensive agricultural research and training institute.

In 1952, BATI began offering a two-year certificate course and a diploma course was introduced in 1960.

The two main challenges that face the institution are insufficient classrooms and insufficient mechanized equipment for use in teaching modern agricultural methods.