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I. Course Title
: Sericulture By-product utilization and Value addition
II. Course Code
: SER 516
III. Credit Hours
: 1+1
IV. Why this course ?
Sericulture generates a huge quantity of by-products at each stage of sericulture
activity such as rearing bed waste, left over mulberry leaves, mulberry twigs, the
discarded silk moth, waste egg sheets, pierced cocoons and damaged cocoons, etc.
at grainage. And also inturn it possesses a vast entrepreneurship opportunities in
silkworm rearing, silk reeling, re-reeling, twisting, winding, weaving, etc. The
present course is designed to make the students to understand all these opportunities
in seri-by-products utilization and also entrepreneurship development thus making
sericulture as one of the most profitable agro-enterprises.
V. Aim of the course
The course is designed with the aim of making the PG students to understand the
best utilization of by-products generated at each stage of sericultural activity and
their value addition for generating additional income making them good
entrepreneurial managers in sericulture by exploring the vast entrepreneurial

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opportunities to make sericulture as one of the profitable enterprises for sustainable
sericulture.
The course is organised as follows:
No.
Blocks
Units
1.
Entrepreneurship in sericulture
1.
Entrepreneurship in sericulture and
problems.
2.
Sericultural entrepreneurship development
in different countries.
2.
Entrepreneurship development
1.
Entrepreneurship development during
in different stages
mulberry cultivation
2.
Entrepreneurship development during egg
production and silkworm rearing.
3.
Entrepreneurship development during silk
reeling and post reeling activities.
3.
Value addition of by-products
1.
Value addition during host plant cultivation
in sericulture
2.
Value addition during silkworm rearing
3.
Value addition during silk reeling and post
reeling.