Educational visit of students of B.sc (Medical) to PAU 

Ludhiana, May 4, 2022: Biological Society of GHG Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar organized one day educational visit of the students of B.sc (Medical) to PAU Ludhiana. Total 35 students accompanied with Prof.Gurpreet Kaur Deol, Prof.Harjinder Kaur, Prof .Taranjeet Kaur, Prof . Sangatjot Kaur  and JLA Malkit Kaur visited Apiary  and Mushroom  Centre of  PAU  Ludhiana to get practical knowledge  of Bee keeping and Mushroom cultivation. 

Dr. Arun Choudhary, Assistant  Professor of the Department of  Entomology, demonstrated different species of honeybees, apparatus required for bee keeping, social life and diseases  of  bees and processing and storage of honey. He threw light on various training programmes of bee keeping organized by PAU Ludhiana and motivated the students to adopt this practice.  
Dr. Shivani Sharma, Mycologist, also demonstrated different species of  Mushrooms and  their  cultivation procedure  which included preparation of compost, spawning, casing , cropping and harvesting of crop. She further highlighted the different equipment being used in cultivation procedure, and the inoculation and sterilization procedure, maintenance of controlled environment conditions for better yield of crop and environment conditions that hinder the growth of the species. 
Principal, Dr. Harpreet Singh appreciated the  efforts  of Biological Society for providing  the field exposure to the students.