Topic outline
- General
- 1.1 Extension: 1.1.1 Definition, meaning, origin and growth of extension work education.
- 1.1 Extension: 1.1.2. Attributes and training of extension work.
- 1.1 Extension: 1.1.3Community development programmes -Role of extension in rural development. Sericulture as tool for rural development
- 1.2.1. Learning and teaching extension-formal and informal education.
- 1.2. 2 Agricultural, Sericultural extension system in India (merits and limitations)
- 1.2.2.1 Training and visits system, 1.2.2.2. Extension teaching methods -Farm and Home visits. 1.2.2.3. Farmer's training programme-Lectures, symposium, panel and forum as extension methods. 1.2.2.4. Field day and field trips. 1.2.2.5. Map contact m
- 1.3.1. Organization at various levels, especially C.S.B. Policy for development, research and training in state and at National level.
- 1.3.2. Sericulture service net work –B.S.F., seed area, grainages, nurseries, CRC, TSC’s, Cocoon market, filature, silk exchanges and cocoon certification centres.,
- 2.1 Marketing Management: 2.1.1. Sericultural marketing organization, their merits and limitation.
- 2.1.2. Traditional and regulated markets of seed, cocoon, raw silk and silk fabric.
- 2.1.3. Government intervention legislation, implications.
- 2.1.4. Marketing institutions - marketing boards -cooperative with special reference to J& K State.
- 2.2 Cooperative and credit agencies: 2.2.1. Definition, types, Sericultural cum farmer’s cooperative societies (Cooperative C.R.C., Cooperative farming society, cooperative yarn produces society, silk marketing society credit cooperatives).
- 2.2.2. Financing agencies in Sericulture 2.2.2.1. Short term, mid term and long term financing, NABARD. SlDBl, IDBI and Bank
- 2.2.3 Unit cost, importance of credit in sericulture.
- 2.2.4. Assistance for sericulture: IRDP, ITDP. TADA, Special component schemes
- 2.3 Feed back system: 2.3.1. Survey types, merits and limitations.
- 2.3.2 Collection of data and its evaluation
- 3.1. History of non-mulberry sericulture: Types of non-mulberry silkworms and their distribution in India and other countries.
- 3.2. Production of mulberry and non-mulberry silk in India and other countries: 3.2.1. Comparative production efficiencies, prospectus and problems in developing countries. 3.2.2. Non mulberry sericulture organizational set up, administrative, research
- 3.3. Non mulberry sericulture and its relevant to social forestry schemes.
- 3.4. Tassar Culture: 3.4.1. Tassar culture and its association with forest tribes. 3.4.2. Distribution of tropical tassar flora -primary and secondary food plants in different states. 3.4.3. Distribution of temperate farmer flora -primary and: secondar
- 3.5. Muga Culture and its endemic nature to Assam: 3.5.1. Primary and secondary food plants distribution
- 3.6 Eri-Culture- primary and secondary food plants
- 4.1 Morphology and rearing of non mulberry silkworms 4.1.1. Morphology of egg, larva, pupa and moth. 4.1.2. Digestive system of Larva. 4.1.3. Ecological conditions and improved rearing methods-for young & late-age silkworms. 4.1.4. Mounting method
- 4.2 Seed Cocoon: 4.2.1 Procurement, preservation. 4.2.2. Synchronization of moth emergence. 4.2.3. Problems in seed supply
- 4.3 Reeling of Tassar, muga & Eri Cocoons. 4.3.1. Basic differences between mulberry and non-mulberry silk reeling. 4.3.2. Different reeling machines. Traditional and modern methods of reeling. 4.4 Spinning: principles of spinning, different spinning m
- 5.1 Diseases of non-mulberry silkworms 5.1.1. Symptoms, causative agent, preventive and control measures of protozoan disease. 5.1.2. Symptoms, causative agents, preventive and control measures of bacterial disease. 5.1.3 Symptoms, causative agent
- 5.2 Pests and predators of non-mulberry silkworms, seasonal abundance, nature and extent of damages of various pests and their control.
- 5.3 Management of extension organizations in non-mulberry sericulture 5.3.1. Management for effective participation of farmers. 5.3.2. Functions of Management in non-mulberry sericulture.
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