NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY SKILL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BY

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF PUNJAB BATHINDA

Dr. (Mrs) SUSHIL GUPTA M.Sc., Ph.D, MBAMobile no-+91-8010500001

Email - sushilgiangarg@gmail.com

What are we doing at CUPB Community Skill Development Centre to actualize vision of National Skill

Development Mission in to reality

• 1) Sericulture• 2) Vermicomposting• 3) Mushroom Cultivation• 4) Apiculture-bee Keeping And Allied Activities

Skill development courses were started for the unemployed youth and farmers

• Vermicomposting started on 7th May 2015. • students registered - 60 • Vermicompost produced after each cycle – 250 kg • For sustenance, Vermicompost sold to horticulture

wing of CUPB.• Earthworm species used- Eisenia foetida

“Go organic Grow Organic” EVERGREEN REVOLUTION MANTRA

• Creating wealth from organic waste (Green Gold) vermicomposting-using earthworms to make our fields fertile and our farmers and community prosper-CUPB leading the student driven Community Skill Development Initiatve

Starting with Vermicomposting

Setting the space for vermibeds

Prepared Vermibeds

Separating earthworms from Manure

Harvested Manure

APICULTURE• Started on-7 May 2015 • Started with 10 beehives for giving practical knowledge to

students• Students registered-60• Each season 22 kg of honey is extracted, filtered, packed and

sold to the University Faculty and students.

Students at Mann Makhi Farm

EXTRACTING HONEY AT CUPB

EXTRACTED HONEY AT CUPB

NATURAL HONEY@CUPB-

• ‘Nectar From Community Skill Development

• Sweet Taste Of Our Hard Work And Your Encouragement’

SERICULTURE TECHNOLOGY

• Mulberry saplings (cultivar S1 146) were procured from Panchkula .

• Eggs of silkworm were procured from Central silk board, Dehradoon.

• Cocoons produced- 7.250 kg

SILKWORM REARING IN ACTION AT CUPB-VARIOUS STAGES

• Sericulture from worm to cocoon………….• Silk Road to success, a Central University of

Punjab Bathinda Community Skill Development Initiative

LARVAE IS COMING OUT OF EGG

EGGS AND NEWLY HATCHED LARVAE

Contd..

EGGS AND NEWLY HATHED LARVAE

LARVAE AFTER FIRST MOULTING EATING MULBERRY LEAVES

LARVAE AFTER SECOND MOULTING

LARVAE AFTER THIRD MOULTING

LARVAE AFTER THIRD MOULTING

LARVAE AFTER FOURTH MOULTING

LARVAE READY TO FORM COCOONS

LARVAE FORMING COCOONS

HARVESTING COCOONS

CLEANING THE HARVESTED COCOONS

Mushroom cultivation

• Cultivation of Button Mushrooms:• In September 2015, compost was prepared.

Spawn was purchased from PAU Ludhiana. 5, In the end of November, white mycelia of fungus was formed.

• Coated with the coating material and the button mushroom appeared in the January and continued in the month of March.

Material for research

Certain research topics can arise. Eg. Analyses of chemical composition of mushrooms has been done. DNA bar code of pink and white dhingri mushrooms is being worked out for comparison. Certain other para meters of mushrooms can be studied with con-focal microscope.

“Farm to Fork”

• Mushrooming the way to community health-CUPB way-Helping provide economical protein nutrient option for cultivators and consumers locally

OYSTER MUSHROOMS

OYSTER MUSHROOMS

OYSTER MUSHROOMS

BUTTON MUSHROOMS

BUTTON MUSHROOMS

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