UG Courses
B.Sc. (Hons.) Sericulture
| I Year I Semester | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course No. | Course Title | Credit Hours | |
| SER 101 | History, Development and Organization of Sericulture Industry | 1+0 | |
| AEC 101 | Principles of Agricultural Resource Economics** | 1+1 | |
| AEX 141 | Fundamentals of Rural Sociology, Educational Psychology and Constitution of India** | 1+1 | |
| AGR 113 | Introductory Agriculture, Principles of Agronomy and Soil Management ** | 2+1 | |
| AGM 123 | Agricultural Microbiology ** | 1+1 | |
| BIC 103 | Plant Biochemistry ** | 1+1 | |
| ENG 101 | Comprehension and Communicative Skills in English ** | 1+1 | |
| FOR 111 | Introduction to Forestry** | 1+1 | |
| HOR 114 | Fundamentals of Plant Propagation and Nursery Management ** | 1+1 | |
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TAM 101 / ENG 103 |
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0+1 | |
| NSS 101 | National Service Scheme * | 0+1 | |
| SER 102 | Cultivation of Host Plants of Silkworms | 1+1 | |
| OFOR 111ut come | |||
| CO1 | Mulberry garden establishment | ||
| CO2 | Nursery preparation and cultivation | ||
| CO3 | Nutrient management | ||
| CO4 | Irrigation and water management | ||
| CO5 | Weed management | ||
| CO6 | Cropping systems | ||
| CO7 | Resource management in mulberry crop production | ||
| CO8 | Rainfed mulberry cultivation | ||
| CO9 | Pruning and Harvesting | ||
| CO10 | Mechanization in moriculture | ||
| SER 103 | Botany and Cytology of Host Plants of Silkworms | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Classification of plant kingdom | ||
| CO2 | Taxonomy | ||
| CO3 | Chromosome number and morphology of varieties of Mulberry | ||
| CO4 | Chromosome number and morphology of varieties of Castor and Tapioca | ||
| CO5 | Chromosome number and morphology of varieties of Arjun and Asan | ||
| CO6 | Chromosome number and morphology of varieties of Arjun and Asan | ||
| CO7 | Anatomy- root, stem and leaf of mulberry, castor and Terminalia | ||
| CO8 | Microsporogenesis and development of male gametophyte | ||
| CO9 | Megasporogenesis and development of female gametophyte | ||
| CO10 | Pollination and fertilization in host plants | ||
| SER 104 | Mulberry Production and Management | 0+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Mulberry Nursery: Propagation of Nursery | ||
| CO2 | Nursery Management – Kissan Nursery. | ||
| CO3 | Economics of Nursery Management | ||
| CO4 | Main field: Land preparation – Manure application | ||
| CO5 | Planting methods – Age of sapling – Time of planting and planting of sapling | ||
| CO6 | Maintenance of Mulberry garden I year onwards | ||
| CO7 | Training and pruning of mulberry | ||
| CO8 | Maintenance of Mulberry garden II year onwards | ||
| CO9 | Practicing farm machinery implements | ||
| CO10 | Harvesting and Economics of Mulberry leaf production | ||
| SER 105 | Morphology and Systematics of Silkworms | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Biodiversity of silkworms in India and World wide | ||
| CO2 | Systematics of mulberry and non-mulberry silkworms | ||
| CO3 | External morphology of life stages | ||
| CO4 | Anatomy and physiology of digestive system | ||
| CO5 | Circulatory system and respiratory system | ||
| CO6 | Excretory system and nervous system | ||
| CO7 | Reproductive system and Muscular system | ||
| CO8 | Endocrine system, hormones and their role | ||
| CO9 | Silkworm haemolymph and its role | ||
| CO10 | Silk Gland and Silk Synthesis | ||
| SER 201 | Genetics and Breeding of Host Plants of Silkworms | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Taxonomy, origin and distribution– mulberry, Terminalia, castor, som and soalu | ||
| CO2 | Mitosis and karyomorphological studies in host plants of silkworms | ||
| CO3 | Meiosis and its significance Host plants of silkworms | ||
| CO4 | Germplasm resources of host plants of silkworms and their exploration | ||
| CO5 | Conservation of germplasm of host plants of silkworm | ||
| CO6 | Role of germplasm in crop improvement | ||
| CO7 | Inheritance of economic characters | ||
| CO8 | Breeding methods | ||
| CO9 | Back cross method of breeding and its importance | ||
| CO10 | Application of tissue culture technique in mulberry | ||
| SER 202 | Silkworm Anatomy and Physiology | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Anatomy and physiology of digestive system | ||
| CO2 | Circulatory system and respiratory system | ||
| CO3 | Excretory system and nervous system | ||
| CO4 | Reproductive system and Muscular system | ||
| CO5 | Endocrine system, hormones and their role | ||
| CO6 | Silkworm haemolymph and its role | ||
| CO7 | Silk Gland and Silk Synthesis | ||
| CO8 | Biodiversity of silkworms in India and World wide | ||
| CO9 | Systematics of mulberry and non-mulberry silkworms | ||
| CO10 | External morphology of life stages | ||
| SER 203 | Cytology and Genetics of Silkworms | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | History of silkworm breeding Japan, China, India | ||
| CO2 | Silkworm gene bank and maintaining germplasm | ||
| CO3 | Hybridization programme | ||
| CO4 | Heterosis in different crossing systems | ||
| CO5 | Parthenogenesis | ||
| CO6 | Mutation breeding, historical accounts, spontaneous and induced mutations | ||
| CO7 | Breeding of high temperature tolerant breeds | ||
| CO8 | Authorization of parental breeds, hybrids and Authorization committee – role | ||
| CO9 | Phases of silkworm breeds developed, prospects and its applications | ||
| CO10 | Molecular markers in silkworm breedings | ||
| SER 204 | Vanya Sericulture | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Introduction to primary host plants -tasar, eri and muga silkworms | ||
| CO2 | Cultivation of Eri Primary Host plants | ||
| CO3 | Cultivation of Eri Secondary Host plants | ||
| CO4 | Cultivation of Tasar Host plants | ||
| CO5 | Cultivation of Muga Host plants | ||
| CO6 | Eri silkworms rearing techniques | ||
| CO7 | Tasar silkworms rearing techniques | ||
| CO8 | Muga silkworms rearing techniques | ||
| CO9 | Young age rearing methods | ||
| CO10 | Late age rearing methods | ||
| SER 205 | Resource Generation and Management in Sericulture | 1+0 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Introduction to Sericulture resource generation | ||
| CO2 | Resources in Mulberry cultivation, Silkworm rearing, Silk reeling and post reeling | ||
| CO3 | Mulberry nursery, farm inputs and improved techniques | ||
| CO4 | Manure and fertilizer use efficiency, Calculation of chemicals/fertilizers requirement | ||
| CO5 | Utilization of weeds, Intercropping, INM and IPM techniques | ||
| CO6 | Water management in Mulberry cultivation | ||
| CO7 | Use of bio-digestor, vermi-wash, Use of treated drainage water, Silage preparation. | ||
| CO8 | Silkworm rearing and Silk reeling management | ||
| CO9 | Feed management in rearing, Labour, time and input managements | ||
| CO10 | Manpower and power management in reeling and post reeling activities | ||
| SER 206 | Mulberry Silkworm Rearing | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Silkworm Races and Authorization | ||
| CO2 | Silkworm races, classification based on voltinism, geography and moulting | ||
| CO3 | Rearing appliances and its uses | ||
| CO4 | Chawki rearing methods and its importance | ||
| CO5 | Late age rearing methods and its importance | ||
| CO6 | Silkworm Growth and Nutrition | ||
| CO7 | Role of various nutrients in silkworm growth, development and silk production | ||
| CO8 | Mountages and mounting of worms, spinning care effective rate of rearing, cocoon harvesting and sorting | ||
| CO9 | Transporting and marketing of cocoons | ||
| CO10 | Assessment of cocoon yield and quality | ||
| SER 208 | Genetic Resources of Mulberry and Silkworm | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Mulberry Germplasm and Diversity | ||
| CO2 | Mulberry biodiversity, wild mulberry, distribution and documentation | ||
| CO3 | Survey, exploration, collection, conservation, maintenance | ||
| CO4 | Evaluation of genetic resources of mulberry | ||
| CO5 | Cataloging, data storage and retrieval of information | ||
| CO6 | Characterization and evaluation, morphological, reproductive, anatomical descriptions, growth, propagation and biochemical descriptions | ||
| CO7 | Role of tissue culture in genetic conservation of mulberry | ||
| CO8 | Silkworm biodiversity and documentation | ||
| CO9 | Characterization and evaluation of silkworm genetic resources | ||
| CO10 | Silkworm Germplasm Conservation | ||
| SER 209 | Silkworm Breeding | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | History of silkworm breeding | ||
| CO2 | Silkworm gene bank, maintaining germplasm, maintenance of breeds / stocks | ||
| CO3 | Hybridization | ||
| CO4 | Heterosis: Genetic basis for heterosis, manifestation of heterosis, commercial exploitation of heterosis | ||
| CO5 | Different crossing systems | ||
| CO6 | Parthenogenesis | ||
| CO7 | Mutation breeding | ||
| CO8 | Application of mutation breeding, achievements and limitations | ||
| CO9 | Autosexing silkworm breeds | ||
| CO10 | Authorization committee | ||
| SER 210 | Principles and Pests of Host Plants of Silkworms and their Management | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Pest Management Principles | ||
| CO2 | Role of biotic factors: competition, parasitoids, pathogens and predators in mulberry ecosystem. | ||
| CO3 | Pest Management Strategies | ||
| CO4 | Components of pest management | ||
| CO5 | Cultural, Mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, botanicals, host plant resistance, legal, Phyto sanitary certificate | ||
| CO6 | Biotechnological approach for insect pests management | ||
| CO7 | Sucking pests of mulberry and its management | ||
| CO8 | Non-mulberry Host Plants Pests and its Management | ||
| CO9 | Classification of pesticides | ||
| CO10 | Principles of insecticide residue analysis.and Safer chemicals for mulberry pest management | ||
| SER 211 | Pests of Silkworms and Management | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Introduction to pest, parasite, predator, hyperparasite and other types of parasites on pests | ||
| CO2 | Uzi fly | ||
| CO3 | Nature of damage | ||
| CO4 | life stages | ||
| CO5 | External morphology of egg and maggot | ||
| CO6 | Biology of maggot | ||
| CO7 | Biology of pupa and adult stages of uzifly | ||
| CO8 | Host and parasite interactions | ||
| CO9 | Integrated management | ||
| CO10 | Non Insect Pests and Dermestid | ||
| SER 301 | Sustainable Moriculture | 2+0 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Essential components for growth and development of mulberry | ||
| CO2 | Climatic resources for sustained crop productivity | ||
| CO3 | Eco farming and Sericulture as a component in Integrated Farming System | ||
| CO4 | Concept of growth analysis | ||
| CO5 | Leaf quality parameters | ||
| CO6 | Role of organics, green manures, inter crops and Bio fertilizers | ||
| CO7 | Water resources and water requirement of mulberry in different situations and seasons | ||
| CO8 | Management of established mulberry garden | ||
| CO9 | Machineries in sericulture | ||
| CO10 | Role of environmental factors and environmental pollutants on mulberry growth and development | ||
| SER 302 | Bivoltine Sericulture | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Overview about Indian Bivoltine Sericulture | ||
| CO2 | Planning for bivoltine silkworm rearing suitable to different regions of Tamil Nadu | ||
| CO3 | Agencies involved in bivoltine egg production, egg procurement and care in handling | ||
| CO4 | Brushing of loose eggs, leaf selection for chawki instars, frequency and quantum of feeding | ||
| CO5 | Importance of spacing for rearing, care at moulting and bed cleaning for bivoltines | ||
| CO6 | Cocoon harvesting, sorting, transporting and marketing of cocoons | ||
| CO7 | Loose egg production, acid treatment and preservation schedules | ||
| CO8 | Economics of rearing house and Benefit cost ratio of silkworm rearing | ||
| CO9 | Role of JICA and other agencies in promoting Bivoltine sericulture in India | ||
| CO10 | Role of Extension Agencies in promoting Bivoltine sericulture | ||
| SER 303 | Planning and Management of Silk Reeling Industry | 2+0 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Importance of silk reeling industry | ||
| CO2 | Scope and Limitations | ||
| CO3 | Properties of Silk | ||
| CO4 | Specific gravity | ||
| CO5 | Tenacity and elongation | ||
| CO6 | Hygroscopic nature | ||
| CO7 | Electrical properties | ||
| CO8 | Action of water | ||
| CO9 | Degradation by acids, alkalis | ||
| CO10 | General characters of Silk | ||
| SER 304 | Diseases of Host Plants of Silkworms | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Epidemiology of plant diseases | ||
| CO2 | Role of weather factors in disease development | ||
| CO3 | Principles of Plant Diseases Management | ||
| CO4 | Role of cultural practices in plant disease management | ||
| CO5 | Protection: Chemical control of plant diseases, fungicides, Different group of fungicides and antibiotics in plant disease management | ||
| CO6 | Immunization | ||
| CO7 | Types of resistance | ||
| CO8 | Biotechnological approaches for crop disease management | ||
| CO9 | Diseases of host plants of Mulberry silkworm | ||
| CO10 | Integrated management of diseases due to fungi, bacteria, viruses, phytoplasma, Nematode and non-parasitic causes of mulberry | ||
| SER 305 | Diseases of Silkworms & Management | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Insect pathology | ||
| CO2 | Types of Diseases | ||
| CO3 | Protozoan and Fungal Infection | ||
| CO4 | Mass mother moth testing. Pebrine monitoring and management | ||
| CO5 | Types of bacterial diseases | ||
| CO6 | Types of fungal infection | ||
| CO7 | Classification of insect viruses | ||
| CO8 | Viral diseases of silkworm | ||
| CO9 | Disinfection, Characterization | ||
| CO10 | Histopathology and Bioassay Studies | ||
| SER 306 | Silk Throwing, Dyeing and Weaving | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Learn processes of silk winding, doubling, twisting, warping, bleaching, dyeing, printing and weaving | ||
| CO2 | Silk throwing and winding Importance of silk throwing | ||
| CO3 | Doubling and Twisting | ||
| CO4 | Doubling machine and advantages of Doubling | ||
| CO5 | Twisting, Twisting machine and advantages of twisting. Steaming, setting of twist, re-reeling | ||
| CO6 | Warping, Warping of the yarn, warping machine, sectional warp, ball warp | ||
| CO7 | Bleaching, Dyeing and Printing | ||
| CO8 | Bleaching, Dyeing of yarn, classification of dyes, factors influencing the dyeing | ||
| CO9 | Printing, methods of printing. Block method, screen printing, lithoprinting | ||
| CO10 | Weaving, loom, structure of loom. Types of looms and Yarn arrangement on loom, plain weaving, design weaving. | ||
| SER 307 | Silkworm Seed Technology | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Indian sericulture scenario in egg production | ||
| CO2 | Preparation for Egg Production | ||
| CO3 | Sex separation in egg, larva, pupa and adult | ||
| CO4 | Sheet egg production and logistics | ||
| CO5 | Loose egg production | ||
| CO6 | Egg Morphology and Physiology | ||
| CO7 | Bivoltine seed production, importance and characteristic features | ||
| CO8 | Seed Multiplication | ||
| CO9 | Disease Free Egg Production | ||
| CO10 | Economics of Egg Production | ||
| SER 308 | Cocoon Production Technology | 0+2 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Authorized Silkworm Races suitable for different regions | ||
| CO2 | Differences between rearing of crossbreed and bivoltine silkworm | ||
| CO3 | Rearing houses, plan and maintenance. Rearing appliances | ||
| CO4 | Agencies involved in egg production and procurement of eggs | ||
| CO5 | Rearing of chawki worms and methods | ||
| CO6 | Record maintenance and logistics at Chawki Rearing Centres | ||
| CO7 | Transport of Chawki worms | ||
| CO8 | Moulting care, application of bed disinfectants and its importance | ||
| CO9 | Calculation of Effective Rate of Rearing | ||
| CO10 | Project preparation for establishing Chawki Rearing Centres, Late age rearing centres, Large scale sericulture farming and contract farming | ||
| SER 309 | Physics and Chemistry of Fibres | 1+0 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | History and classification of natural fibres and yarns | ||
| CO2 | Physical structure of natural fibres | ||
| CO3 | Physical properties of natural fibre | ||
| CO4 | Synthetic Fibre | ||
| CO5 | Composition and manufacturing methods | ||
| CO6 | Properties and uses of synthetic fibre | ||
| CO7 | Silk Fibre | ||
| CO8 | Chemical structure of fibroin and Comparison of silk fibre with silk like synthetic fibre fabric | ||
| CO9 | Chemical Properties and Application | ||
| CO10 | Application of properties of fibres for inducing special effects in fabrics | ||
| SER 310 | Experimental Techniques in Sericultural Research | 1+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Development of sericulture research | ||
| CO2 | Modern trends, concepts in sericulture research and their impact on productivity | ||
| CO3 | Selection of site for experiments | ||
| CO4 | Factors considered in fixing treatments and in fitting experiments | ||
| CO5 | Experiments on mulberry and non-mulberry host plants | ||
| CO6 | Maintenance of experimental records | ||
| CO7 | Recording of observations, sampling techniques, tabulation, analysis and interpretation of results | ||
| CO8 | Preparation of data for scientific papers and presentation of results | ||
| CO9 | Different types of experiments-varietal, cultural, manurial, irrigation, weed control, silkworm rearing, silkworm breeding, grainage, pests, diseases and silk technology | ||
| CO10 | Scientific photography and preparation of transparencies for slide projector and overhead projector | ||
| SER 311 | Raw Silk Technology | 2+1 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | General principles in reeling, different reeling machines | ||
| CO2 | Physical and chemical properties of silk-,effect of heat, electricity | ||
| CO3 | Evolution of reeling machines | ||
| CO4 | Specific gravity | ||
| CO5 | Tenacity and elongation | ||
| CO6 | Hygroscopic nature | ||
| CO7 | Electrical properties | ||
| CO8 | Action of water | ||
| CO9 | Degradation by acids, alkalis | ||
| CO10 | Marketing of silk, silk exchanges and price stabilization of silk | ||
| SER 312 | Spun Silk Technology | 1+0 | |
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Spun Silk | ||
| CO2 | Manufacturing of Spun silk | ||
| CO3 | Systems of spun silk processing, silk wastes, pierced cocoons and Eri cocoons as raw material for spinning industry | ||
| CO4 | Flow chart of spinning, spinning operations, procurement and storing of silk waste | ||
| CO5 | Re-reeling and packaging of Spun silk | ||
| CO6 | Hand spinning of cocoon wastes, Katia, Matka, Geecha silk | ||
| CO7 | Trivedi and Chowdary spinning wheels | ||
| CO8 | Machines used in spun silk industry.Study of different silk wastes | ||
| CO9 | Motorized cum pedal operated spinning wheel | ||
| CO10 | Raw silk waste, opened waste, combed / Dressed waste, sliver, Rovings. Processing of silk waste / Eri cocoons / pierced | ||
| SER 401 | Rural Work Experience Programme (Sericulture) | 0+20 | |
| 1. Placement in Grainage Technology | 0+4 | ||
| 2. Seri Polyclinic | 0+4 | ||
| 3. Placement in Silk Product Technology | 0+4 | ||
| 4. Placement in Value Addition to Sericultural By-Products | 0+3 | ||
| 5. Practical Extension Work in Villages | 0+5 | ||
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | The students will be involved in various aspects of egg production and grainage management | ||
| CO2 | Preparation of layings on egg cards and loose egg preparation | ||
| CO3 | Soil health diagnosis, INM practices to improve the soil and plant health, identification of deficiency symptoms in mulberry and acquainting with remedial measures | ||
| CO4 | Development of INM and IDPM schedules for management of Nutrition and pest and diseases in mulberry | ||
| CO5 | The students will be involved in various aspects of silk product science | ||
| CO6 | Placement will be conducted in Govt. Grainage/CSB Grainage/Private Grainage. | ||
| CO7 | The students will be involved in various aspects of silk product science | ||
| CO8 | Placement will be conducted in Govt. Grainage/CSB Grainage/Private Grainage. | ||
| CO9 | The students will camp in the villages and work with farmers. | ||
| CO10 | Conducting method / result demonstrations to teach the skills to prove the worthiness of technologies to the farmers based on problems and needs | ||
| SER 403 | STUDENT READY: Experimental Learning programme | 20(0+20) | |
| STUDENT READY ELP /HOT Modules | |||
| i. Host Plant Production | |||
| ii. Cocoon Crop Production | |||
| iii.Silk Product Science | |||
| iv. Natural Resource Management | |||
| Out come | |||
| CO1 | Mulberry and Non-Mulberry Host Plant Nursery Management | ||
| CO2 | Host Plants Production Technology for Mulberry and Non-mulberry silkworms | ||
| CO3 | Value Addition to Mulberry and Non-Mulberry by products | ||
| CO4 | Farm Mechanization | ||
| CO5 | Bivoltine Silkworm Rearing technology | ||
| CO6 | Value Addition to Grainage and Rearing Byproducts | ||
| CO7 | Entrepreneurship Development in Post silk Technology | ||
| CO8 | Entrepreneurship Development in Silk Apparel Technology | ||
| CO9 | Soil Health Clinic | ||
| CO10 | Problematic Soils and their Management | ||