Crop Protection
- Departments
- Crop Protection
Department Details
Disciplines
- Agricultural Entomology
- Nematology
- Plant pathology
INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS
- Sick plot unit – Pest and Diseases
PRODUCTION UNITS
- Mushroom production unit
- Apiary unit
- Sericulture unit
Agricultural Entomology Laboratory
The Agricultural Entomology laboratory has various instruments to provide an extensive understanding of insect identification, structure, classification, and management of beneficial and harmful insects. This laboratory contains insect display boards for taxonomy, beneficial insects, field crop pests, and horticultural crop pests. A rich collection of insects in various orders are stored in the laboratory for conducting practical class needs. Other basic equipment like microscopes, mounting apparatus, dissection board, and insect rearing cages for mass culturing purposes, plant protection equipment like traps (light traps, sex pheromone traps, aggregation traps,etc.) and sprayers are also available in sufficient numbers
| Year | Course Code | Course Title |
| II | AEN 201 | Fundamentals of Entomology |
| II | AEN 202 | Management of Beneficial and Harmful Insects |
| III | AEN 301 | Pests of Field Crops and Stored Produce and their Management |
| III | AEN 302 | Pests of Horticultural Crops and Stored Produces and their Management |
Plant Pathology Laboratory
The laboratory is provided with equipment and apparatus used to carry out experimetal activities for teaching and demonstration purposes. Students are given hands-on training on the assessment of important plant diseases, diagnosis of plant diseases based on characteristic symptoms, causal agents, the morphology of an isolated microorganism, immunological and serological characteristics of the pathogen, and integrated disease management practices and recognize the impact of plant disease on human affairs.
| Year | Course Code | Course Title |
| II | PAT 201 | Fundamentals of Plant Pathology |
| II | PAT 202 | Principles of Integrated Plant Disease Management |
| III | PAT 301 | Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crop and their Management I |
| III | PAT 302 | Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crop and their Management II |