About Department Of Agricultural Entomology
Entomology is the study of insects. Insects are the predominant species on earth representing the greatest biodiversity with more than one million known species.Insects significantly affects human civilization, whether the impact is positive such as pollination of plants,or negative such as carriers of diseases and pests of different crops.Department of Agricultural Entomology of J. B. K. C. A. R. is working since the establishment of college with many objectives. The major objective of the department of Agricultural Entomology is to teach various courses related to insects and their role in Agricultural systems. Also it aims to graduate students to maintain an inventory of major insects or pests of crops and develop suitable technologies for minimizing the production losses caused by them.During the students ready program in RAWE, the students gets direct contact with the farmers and at that time student gets all the practical knowledge about farming and about different crop pests damage on different crops and also about their management. Students also guide the farmers about the pest management. During the experiential learning module there is a production of bio-pesticides and bio-agents under which we prepare bio-pesticide Metarhizium. The objective of the module is to train the students in mass production of bio-pesticides and bio-agents, to aware them about the recent developments in bio-pesticide development technologies and alternative motive is to develop entrepreneurship skills in students. Beside all of these curriculum activities we arranges various academic tours so as to give outdoor exposure to the students and to boost the confidence level
Staff
Prof. Pratap Patil
M. Sc. Agriculture (Agril. Entomology) (NET) Qualified
Assistant Professor