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):

  1. Big data analysis and machine learning role in future farming
  2. Machine learning for future farming
  3. Impact applications of ICT
  4. Scalability of ICT application in Agriculture
  5. ICT technologies and its role in Agriculture
  6. Sensor based technologies for agriculture
  7. Guiding opportunities in State and National institutions
  8. Drones and their applications in farming
  9. Promotional incentives from public sectors

Course Title: Entrepreneurial opportunities of Processing and Value addition in food crops

Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):
  1. Significance of food processing and value addition
  2. Entrepreneurial Opportunities of food processing and value addition
  3. SWOC Analysis
  4. Commodity based institutional product development
  5. Availment of Institutional support from public and corporate sector
  6. Project formulation and investment planning
  7. Market tie-up plans for aggressive and aggregate marketing
  8. Product demand survey and decision process.
  9. Economic analysis for scale up production
  10. Regulatory mechanisms in establishing entrepreneurial units.

Course Title: Agricultural Market Knowledge Management

Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Agricultural price policies
  2. Components and dimensions of market
  3. Price fixation mechanism and MSP applications
  4. Classification of market and market functions
  5. Market information and advisories
  6. Private and public sector markets
  7. Agricultural marketing institutions
  8. Community marketing opportunities
  9. Advanced ICT platform support for online marketing.
  10. Public sector Institutional promotional incentives.

Course Title: Organic Interventions for sustainable crop production

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Organic interventions and its application in seed treatment,
  2. Organic nutrient management
  3. Organic weed, Pest & Disease management,
  4. Indigenous post-harvest management and storage techniques.
  5. Organic certification procedures
  6. Post-harvest management and marketing
  7. Promotional incentives in public sector program
Course Title: Climate change and crop production

Duration (in Weeks): 3 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Climate related hazards and natural disasters
  2. Policy implications on integrated climate change measures
  3. Awareness generation and institutional capacity building on climate change
  4. Planning of state environmental report and its implementations
  5. Integration of plans and programs of related public sector
  6. ICT application to develop region suit at agro-crop planning
  7. Early warning and impact reduction mitigation strategies
  8. Concurrent monitoring and evaluation practices for impact assessment
  9. Private sector and institutional collaborative plans
  10. Reviewed analysis of the state and district as per SD Goals
  11. Greenhouse management of climate change.
  12. adopting crop for climate management
  13. Economic impact of climate change in agriculture
  14. Contribution of conservation agriculture to buffering climate change
  15. 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):

  1. Competitive Agri-Business models
  2. Techniques of capital budgeting
  3. Corporate and contract farming packages
  4. Formulation of MSP plans and implementation
  5. ICT applications on price forecast and decision making
  6. Advances in online Agri-Business and marketing
  7. Incentive programs for establishing price forecasting system
  8. Innovative Agri-Business model for security and income
  9. Market analysis and market research
  10. Market channels and strategies
  11. Operation of Domestic and market intelligence cells
  12. 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):

  1. Assessment of energy demand in various crop production and agricultural practices
  2. Biomass and biofuel utilization opportunities in agricultural sectors
  3. Advances in solar energy application in agriculture.
  4. Innovative programs and plans for public sector
  5. Integrated renewable energy
    production for different scale of agriculture
  6. Community based renewable energy models
  7. Climate friendly agriculture and renewable energy
  8. Applications of green energy in agriculture
  9. 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):

  1. Assessment of water use efficiency across crops
  2. Field planning and designing of pressurized irrigation system
  3. Advances with sensors and ICT applications
  4. Automated irrigation system for precision agriculture
  5. Public sector incentive for installing pressurized irrigation system
  6. Management and maintenance practices of pressurized irrigation system
  7. 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):

  1. Status and consequences in Global warming
  2. SDG plans and strategies to mitigate climate change
  3. Effects of global warming – soil and plant health
  4. Approaches to improve Carbon Sequestration on soil and plant health.
  5. Best agricultural practices to climate change management
  6. Low cost innovative technologies for climate change management.
  7. 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):

  1. Role of Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies in Precision Agriculture
  2. Analysis and budgeting of land resources for crop production
  3. Comprehensive Decision Support System (DSS) and its application.
  4. Application of land resources inventorisation (LRI) for crop planning.
  5. Crop production modeling and forecasting
  6. Remote sensing and conservation agriculture
  7. Remote sensing – watershed planning and management
  8. 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):

  1. Crop diversification- importance, advantages.
  2. Effects of climate change- adaptation, resilience, mitigation, current situations in India
  3. Adaptability options in a comprehensive cropping system for income enhancement.
  4. Integrated and diversified crop planning for income enhancement
  5. Smart agricultural practices and technologies for climate resilient agriculture.
  6. Technical innovations for crop diversification in drought prone areas
  7. Best PHM practices, primary food processing, and value addition
  8. Promotional incentives in public sector program

Course Title: Soilless crops production

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Significance of soilless cultivation – types, systems and opportunities
  2. Applications of hydroponics –types and practices
  3. Application of Aeroponics – types and opportunities
  4. Material and structural components for soilless crop production
  5. Fertigation management practices
  6. Integrated pest and Disease management
  7. Project formulation for year round crops production.
  8. Economic analysis of soilless crop production practices
  9. Promotional incentives in public sector programs

Course Title: Apiculture for Production and profits

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Significance of honeybees in crop production
  2. Secondary agricultural practices and bee keeping
  3. Classification & types of honeybees
  4. Morphology, Internal anatomy of honeybees and Structural adaptations in honey bees
  5. Colony organization and Behaviour in honey bees
  6. Beekeeping, Types of beehives and beekeeping equipment.
  7. Hiving of bee colonies and Handling of bee colony
  8. Bee pasturage and pollinators
  9. Care and management of apiary and Bee poisoning
  10. Mite, insect pests and Diseases of honeybees and management
  11. Bee products, processing and value addition

Course Title: Entrepreneurship in mushroom production

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Mushrooms for Nutrition substitution and health
  2. Procedures and practices of spawn production
  3. Different high value mushrooms production for food and medicine.
  4. Commercial scale production planning for year round marketing.
  5. Scalable models of mushroom productioninvestments and outputs.
  6. Project formulation and assessment of economic viability.
  7. 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):

  1. Significance domestic Pet keeping in India
  2. Good management practices of different types pet animals in domestic conditions
  3. Grooming and Handling of Pets
  4. Nutrition management of pets
  5. Techniques and tips for identification of health disorders
  6. Routine health management practices
  7. Regulations of pets management in urban regions
  8. 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):

  1. Orientation and significance of IPR, GATT, WTO, TRIPs and WIPO.
  2. Treaties for relevant IPR protection: [Madrid protocol, Berne Convention, Budapest treaty, etc]
  3. Types of Intellectual Property and legislations covering IPR in India.
  4. Patents, Copyrights, Trademark, Industrial design, Geographical indications, Integrated circuits, Trade secrets
  5. 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
  6. Compulsory licensing, Patent Cooperation Treaty, Patent search and patent database
  7. Origin and history including a brief introduction to UPOV for protection of plant varieties
  8. Protection of plant varieties under UPOV and PPV&FR Act of India, Plant breeders rights, Registration of plant varieties under PPV&FR Act 2001
  9. Breeders, researchers and farmers rights. Traditional knowledge- meaning and rights of TK holders.
  10. 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):

  1. Indigenous techniques for low budget crop production.
  2. Effective utilization of Indigenous machineries and equipments for efficient crop production
  3. Application options of Zero budget natural farming
  4. Adoption of holistic crop based mechanized package of crop production.
  5. Zero tillage and mulching technologies in reducing the cost of cultivation
  6. Community scale public sector mechanization opportunities

Course Title: Integrated Plant Health Management

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Diagnostic Tools and Techniques for survey and detection
  2. ICT applications for field level survey and treatment
  3. Advanced modular mechanisms of pest and disease load assessment
  4. Integrated plant health management measures
  5. Impact of plant health clinic and mobile plant health management
  6. Advanced biological techniques of plant health management
  7. Development of Online advisory platforms
  8. Establishment options of satellite plant health centers
  9. Public sector incentives to develop model plant health management institution
  10. Plant protection and quarantine applications
  11. Integrated plant health information system
  12. Anti-resistance strategies in plant health

Course Title: IOT and Agri-Startups

Duration (in Weeks): 4 weeks

Course Content (Orientation, Interaction & Exposure Consultation):

  1. Significance of IOT applications in agrarian sector.
  2. Case study analysis of failure & success IOT based Agri-startups.
  3. Opportunities of IOT technologies for Smart farming.
  4. Open options for generation of new Agristartups
  5. Institutional assistance to enhance skill and incubation.
  6. Projects formulation and financial analysis of scalable projects
  7. Sourcing Ideas and opportunities in Agriculture for entrepreneurship development

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