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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesAMU Aligarh

The Syllabus

  • Introductory overview of aquaculture
  • Status of inland and marine aquaculture
  • Prospects of aquaculture growth
  • Aquaculture as a food production system
  • Role of aquaculture in food supply

  • Agencies involved in promoting academic
  • research and entrepreneurship opportunities in aquaculture
  • Introductory overview 
  • Institutes under the Ministry of Fisheries
  • Animal Husbandry and Dairying
  • Academic/research institutions
  • Fisheries departments/ Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs) in different states of the country 
  • International agencies/societies in fisheries and aquaculture
  • Private companies engaged in fisheries/ aquaculture activities

  • Types of farming systems: Introductory account 
  • Extensive culture system
  • Semi-intensive culture system 
  • Intensive culture system
  • Recirculatory aquaculture system
  • Cage culture
  • Integrated fish farming 
  • Fish-cum-duck culture
  • Fish-cum-paddy culture

  • Types of fish ponds 
  • Fish pond management
  • Water quality parameters and their analysis 
  • Management of water quality in aquaculture practice

  • Age and growth estimation in fish
  • Introductory account and significance
  • Methods of  fish age estimation
  • Fish growth and methods of its determination

  • Nutritional and feeding strategies in aquaculture 
  • Composite fish farming with special reference to Indian major carps; Induced breeding 
  • Introductory account & significance 
  • Induced breeding technique using pituitary gland 
  • Use of inducing agents other than Pituitary gland for fish breeding

  • Mariculture: status and prospects
  • Sea ranching practice and its significance 
  • Commercially important marine prawns and lobsters
  • Farming of lobsters

  • Biology and farming practices of pearl oyster
  • Pinctada fucata
  • Pearl culture
  • Biology and culture methods of mullet
  • Mugil cephalus 
  • Biology of the tiger prawn 
  • Penaeus monodon

  • Culture practices of tiger prawn  
  • Penaeus monodon 
  • Biology and culture methods of giant freshwater prawn
  • Macrobrachium rosenbergii

  • Sustainable aquaculture: concepts and challenges
  • Intensification of aquaculture and its impact on environment
  • Types of feeds used in aquaculture

  • Fish feed ingredients
  • Types and their proximate composition 
  • Fish feed formulation Concepts and methods of feed formulations 
  • On-farm feed preparation; Types of feeders used in aquaculture

  • Ornamental fish culture
  • Introductory account and significance 
  • Commercially important freshwater and marine ornamental fish species 
  • Culture method of ornamental fish
  • Construction and maintenance of aquaria

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