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Aquaculture
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12 Weeks
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| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 1000 | yes | AMU 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
- Concepts of sustainable aquaculture
- Introductory account
- Intensification of aquaculture & its impact on environment
- types of environmental impacts
- Types of feeds used in aquaculture
- An overview
- classification of feeds
- feed manufacturing
- Fish feed ingredients
- types & their proximate composition
- Fish feed formulation
- concepts & methods of feed formulations
- On-farm feed preparation
- types of feeders used in aquaculture
- Types of fish ponds
- fish pond management
- water quality parameters and their analysis
- Management of water quality in aquaculture practic
- Age and Growth estimation in fish
- Introductory account & 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
- 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
- Challenges of sustainable aquaculture
- types of farming systems: Introductory account
- Extensive culture system
- Semi-intensive culture system, Intensive culture system
- Recirculatory aquaculture system (RAS)
- Cage culture
- Integrated fish farming
- Fish-cum-duck culture
- Fish-cum-paddy culture