FOUNDATION FOR ORGANIC & RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Content of the training programme as follows:
Component | Course content | Eligibility | Fees(in Rs.) |
Apiculture(Bee keeping) | · What is bee keeping?· Bee keeping practices · Basics of bee keeping · The queen, the workers and the drone · Life cycle of honey bee · Harvest and honey extraction and marketing | 10+2/Under Graduate/Post Graduate | 4000.00 |
Sericulture | · What is silk and types of silks?· How silk is produced? · Requirements for silk production · Benefit of silk production | 10+2/Under Graduate/Post Graduate | 4000.00 |
Mushroom cultivation training | · What is mushroom, structure, taxonomy and types?· Requirements for mushroom cultivation · Steps of cultivation (Spawn, compost, cropping, processing, value addition, marketing etc. | 10+2/Under Graduate/Post Graduate | 4000.00 |
Non Organization (NGO) | · What is NGO and its formation?· Objectives of NGO · Role of NGO in rural development · NGO and community development | Under Graduate/Post Graduate | 4000.00 |
Socio economic survey at village level | · Essential of preliminary survey· Need assessment · Development of questionnaire · Use of survey technique/tool · Field visit · Utilization of soft skills · Data collection and analysis · Report writing with citation and references | Under Graduate/ Post Graduate | 4000.00 |
Organic (Compost) farming | · What is organic farming?· Demerits of current chemical rich farming · IFOAM standards for organic production · National Standard for Organic Production (NPOP) · Conversion, certification, labelling and transport of organic produce · Brief about organic inputs | 10+2/Graduate/Post Graduate | 4000.00 |