Week 14: Cottage Industries (Apiculture & Sericulture)
Apiculture
The practice of keeping bees for honey production is called apiculture.
Sericulture
The act of rearing silk moths for silk production is called sericulture.
Course Material
- Week 1: Economic Importance of Insects; Reasons of Insect Success; How Insects Have Become Pest
- Week 2: Foundations, Principals and Methods of Insect Control
- Week 3: Cultural, Physical & Mechanical Control of Insects
- Week 4: Biological, Legislative and Reproductive Control of Insects
- Week 5: Chemical Control; Classification of insecticides (Mode of Entry & Action)
- Week 6: Chemical Control; Classification of insecticides (Chemical Nature & Formulations)
- Week 7: Insect Pests of Cotton (Chewing & Sucking Complex)
- Week 8: Mid-term
- Week 9: Insect Pests of Sugarcane & Rice
- Week 10: Insect pests of Maize, Sorghum, Gram & Vegetables
- Week 11: Insect Pests of Fruits (Citrus & Mango)
- Week 12: Insect Pests of Stored Products & Households
- Week 13: General Agricultural Pests (Desert Locust & Termites)
- Week 14: Cottage Industries (Apiculture & Sericulture)
- Week 15: Lac culture + Insecticides Application (Numerical for Dose Calculation)
- Week 16: Final-term
- Chapters 16
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Syed Muhammad Ali Zahid
