Online Certification Courses (Short-Term)
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Course Title: Application of ICTs in Agriculture
Duration (in Weeks): 6 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Big data analysis and machine learning role in future farming
- Machine learning for future farming
- Impact applications of ICT
- Scalability of ICT application in Agriculture
- ICT technologies and its role in Agriculture
- Sensor based technologies for agriculture
- Guiding opportunities in State and National institutions
- Drones and their applications in farming
- Promotional incentives from public sectors
Course Title: Entrepreneurial opportunities of Processing and Value addition in food crops
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
- Significance of food processing and value addition
- Entrepreneurial Opportunities of food processing and value addition
- SWOC Analysis
- Commodity based institutional product development
- Availment of Institutional support from public and corporate sector
- Project formulation and investment planning
- Market tie-up plans for aggressive and aggregate marketing
- Product demand survey and decision process.
- Economic analysis for scale up production
- Regulatory mechanisms in establishing entrepreneurial units.
Course Title: Agricultural Market Knowledge Management
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Agricultural price policies
- Components and dimensions of market
- Price fixation mechanism and MSP applications
- Classification of market and market functions
- Market information and advisories
- Private and public sector markets
- Agricultural marketing institutions
- Community marketing opportunities
- Advanced ICT platform support for online marketing.
- Public sector Institutional promotional incentives.
Course Title: Organic Interventions for sustainable crop production
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Organic interventions and its application in seed treatment,
- Organic nutrient management
- Organic weed, Pest & Disease management,
- Indigenous post-harvest management and storage techniques.
- Organic certification procedures
- Post-harvest management and marketing
- Promotional incentives in public sector program
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Climate related hazards and natural disasters
- Policy implications on integrated climate change measures
- Awareness generation and institutional capacity building on climate change
- Planning of state environmental report and its implementations
- Integration of plans and programs of related public sector
- ICT application to develop region suit at agro-crop planning
- Early warning and impact reduction mitigation strategies
- Concurrent monitoring and evaluation practices for impact assessment
- Private sector and institutional collaborative plans
- Reviewed analysis of the state and district as per SD Goals
- Greenhouse management of climate change.
- adopting crop for climate management
- Economic impact of climate change in agriculture
- Contribution of conservation agriculture to buffering climate change
- GIS and crop simulation modeling application in climate change
Course Title: Agri-Business and Market Intelligence in enhancing Farmer’s Income
Duration (in Weeks): 4 Weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Competitive Agri-Business models
- Techniques of capital budgeting
- Corporate and contract farming packages
- Formulation of MSP plans and implementation
- ICT applications on price forecast and decision making
- Advances in online Agri-Business and marketing
- Incentive programs for establishing price forecasting system
- Innovative Agri-Business model for security and income
- Market analysis and market research
- Market channels and strategies
- Operation of Domestic and market intelligence cells
- MIS services for Agri enterprises
Course Title: Innovative Applications of Renewable Energy Technologies for Agricultural Sector
Duration (in Weeks): 4 Weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Assessment of energy demand in various crop production and agricultural practices
- Biomass and biofuel utilization opportunities in agricultural sectors
- Advances in solar energy application in agriculture.
- Innovative programs and plans for public sector
- Integrated renewable energy
production for different scale of agriculture - Community based renewable energy models
- Climate friendly agriculture and renewable energy
- Applications of green energy in agriculture
- Scenario of Public and Private Agri enterprises Scheme and it application in renewable energy resources
Course Title: Pressurized Irrigation System for Enhancing Water Use Efficiency
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Assessment of water use efficiency across crops
- Field planning and designing of pressurized irrigation system
- Advances with sensors and ICT applications
- Automated irrigation system for precision agriculture
- Public sector incentive for installing pressurized irrigation system
- Management and maintenance practices of pressurized irrigation system
- Use of tools and models to assess the impact of pressurized irrigation system for enhancing water use efficiency
Course Title: Soil and plant health management strategies for adaptation to climate change
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Status and consequences in Global warming
- SDG plans and strategies to mitigate climate change
- Effects of global warming – soil and plant health
- Approaches to improve Carbon Sequestration on soil and plant health.
- Best agricultural practices to climate change management
- Low cost innovative technologies for climate change management.
- State Plans and programs for climate change management.
Course Title: Applications of Remote Sensing, GIS and Spatial Modeling in Land Resource Mapping and Management
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Role of Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies in Precision Agriculture
- Analysis and budgeting of land resources for crop production
- Comprehensive Decision Support System (DSS) and its application.
- Application of land resources inventorisation (LRI) for crop planning.
- Crop production modeling and forecasting
- Remote sensing and conservation agriculture
- Remote sensing – watershed planning and management
- Institutional support for crop planning with GIS
Course Title: Crop Diversification for Resilience in Agriculture and Doubling Farmers Income
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Crop diversification- importance, advantages.
- Effects of climate change- adaptation, resilience, mitigation, current situations in India
- Adaptability options in a comprehensive cropping system for income enhancement.
- Integrated and diversified crop planning for income enhancement
- Smart agricultural practices and technologies for climate resilient agriculture.
- Technical innovations for crop diversification in drought prone areas
- Best PHM practices, primary food processing, and value addition
- Promotional incentives in public sector program
Course Title: Soilless crops production
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Significance of soilless cultivation – types, systems and opportunities
- Applications of hydroponics –types and practices
- Application of Aeroponics – types and opportunities
- Material and structural components for soilless crop production
- Fertigation management practices
- Integrated pest and Disease management
- Project formulation for year round crops production.
- Economic analysis of soilless crop production practices
- Promotional incentives in public sector programs
Course Title: Apiculture for Production and profits
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Significance of honeybees in crop production
- Secondary agricultural practices and bee keeping
- Classification & types of honeybees
- Morphology, Internal anatomy of honeybees and Structural adaptations in honey bees
- Colony organization and Behaviour in honey bees
- Beekeeping, Types of beehives and beekeeping equipment.
- Hiving of bee colonies and Handling of bee colony
- Bee pasturage and pollinators
- Care and management of apiary and Bee poisoning
- Mite, insect pests and Diseases of honeybees and management
- Bee products, processing and value addition
Course Title: Entrepreneurship in mushroom production
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Mushrooms for Nutrition substitution and health
- Procedures and practices of spawn production
- Different high value mushrooms production for food and medicine.
- Commercial scale production planning for year round marketing.
- Scalable models of mushroom productioninvestments and outputs.
- Project formulation and assessment of economic viability.
- Investment propositions from public sector programs and credit banks.
Course Title: Good practices in pet Management
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Significance domestic Pet keeping in India
- Good management practices of different types pet animals in domestic conditions
- Grooming and Handling of Pets
- Nutrition management of pets
- Techniques and tips for identification of health disorders
- Routine health management practices
- Regulations of pets management in urban regions
- Animal Psychology and Communication skills
Course Title: Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Variety Protection(IPR)
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Orientation and significance of IPR, GATT, WTO, TRIPs and WIPO.
- Treaties for relevant IPR protection: [Madrid protocol, Berne Convention, Budapest treaty, etc]
- Types of Intellectual Property and legislations covering IPR in India.
- Patents, Copyrights, Trademark, Industrial design, Geographical indications, Integrated circuits, Trade secrets
- Patents Act 1970 and Patent system in India, patentability, process and Product patent, filing of patent, patent specification, patent claims, Patent opposition and revocation, infringement
- Compulsory licensing, Patent Cooperation Treaty, Patent search and patent database
- Origin and history including a brief introduction to UPOV for protection of plant varieties
- Protection of plant varieties under UPOV and PPV&FR Act of India, Plant breeders rights, Registration of plant varieties under PPV&FR Act 2001
- Breeders, researchers and farmers rights. Traditional knowledge- meaning and rights of TK holders.
- Convention on Biological Diversity, International treaty on plant genetic, Resources for food, agriculture (ITPGRFA), Indian Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and its salient features, access and benefit sharing.
Course Title: Innovative and low – investment crop production strategies
Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Indigenous techniques for low budget crop production.
- Effective utilization of Indigenous machineries and equipments for efficient crop production
- Application options of Zero budget natural farming
- Adoption of holistic crop based mechanized package of crop production.
- Zero tillage and mulching technologies in reducing the cost of cultivation
- Community scale public sector mechanization opportunities
Course Title: Integrated Plant Health Management
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Diagnostic Tools and Techniques for survey and detection
- ICT applications for field level survey and treatment
- Advanced modular mechanisms of pest and disease load assessment
- Integrated plant health management measures
- Impact of plant health clinic and mobile plant health management
- Advanced biological techniques of plant health management
- Development of Online advisory platforms
- Establishment options of satellite plant health centers
- Public sector incentives to develop model plant health management institution
- Plant protection and quarantine applications
- Integrated plant health information system
- Anti-resistance strategies in plant health
Course Title: IOT and Agri-Startups
Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks
Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
- Significance of IOT applications in agrarian sector.
- Case study analysis of failure & success IOT based Agri-startups.
- Opportunities of IOT technologies for Smart farming.
- Open options for generation of new Agristartups
- Institutional assistance to enhance skill and incubation.
- Projects formulation and financial analysis of scalable projects
- Sourcing Ideas and opportunities in Agriculture for entrepreneurship development