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Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
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English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Important dates
Course Commencement Date
Start Date : 20 Jan, 2025
Certificate Exam Date
Start Date : 25 Apr, 2025
Courses and Certificate Fees
Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
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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
- 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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