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1 Department of Biology BIO 502 APPLIED STORAGE TECHNIQUES COURSE PARTICULARS Course Code: BIO 502 Course Title: Applied Storage Techniques No. of Units: 2 Course Duration: Two hour of theory and three hours of practical per week for 15 weeks Status: Compulsory Course Address: Bio com Course Webpage: Course schedule. Php? Course code Bio%20502 COURSE INSTRUCTORS Dr J.O. Akinneye Room 021, SOS, Biology Lab II Dept. of Biology Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: joakinneye@futa.edu.ng And Mrs A. C Adeyemo Room16 Abdulahi Academic Office SOS Office Annex Dept of Bioogy Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: acadeyemo@futa.edu.ng COURSE DESCRIPTION This course involves field trips including visit to warehouses, stores, feed mills, bakeries, canning factories, sawmills, leather and wood processing factories, farms and fumigation centre involved in controlling stored product pest and household pest, theory and practical involving pest identification, pest monitoring, pest detection. As a practical course, as well as field trips course, students will learn how to manage a warehouse for stored product, also gain practical knowledge on the technology involve in processing food and other agricultural product in industries. Develop skill on controlling of stored product pest and urban pest. Topic include pesticide formulation; preparation of pesticide formulation; role of inert ingredient; pesticide

2 mixing technology; calculation of active ingredient content of formulations; and knapsack sprayer calibration. COURSE OBJECTIVES The objectives of this course are to: visit warehouse and stores to learn physically how warehouse and stores are managed ; provide students with opportunities to visit bakeries, and learn how foods are baked; how leather and wood are preserved and processed for use; equip the students with the skills of how to preserved grains in bulk, in bins and in sacks against stored product pest; provide students with adequate skills on how to carrying out fumigation application; provide practical knowledge to students on pest identification, pest monitoring, produce assessment and categorization of the level of damage and crop losses; and provide practical knowledge to students on knapsack sprayer calibration and maintenance.. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES / COMPETENCIES Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: (Knowledge based) write a comprehensive report on field trips and industrial visits; state the procedure for carrying out fumigation application; explain how to preserved grains in bulk, in bins and in sacks; explain knapsack calibration procedure; and identify insect species and their destructive stages and carryout appropriate control measure.

3 (skills) preserve grains in bulk, in sack and in silo, prepare pesticide formulation and its application. calibrate knapsack sprayer and maintenance manage warehouse and stores determine shelf life of produce in storage. GRADING SYSTEM FOR THE COURSE This course will be graded as follow Report of industrial visit 10% Assignment 10% Test 20% Practical 10% Examination 50% TOTAL 100% GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS Attendance: It is expected that every student will be in class for lectures and also participate in all practical exercises. Attendance records will be kept and used to determine each person s qualification to sit for the final examination. In case of illness or other unavoidable cause of absence, the student must communicate as soon as possible with any of the instructors, indicating the reason for the absence. Academic Integrity: Violations of academic integrity, including dishonesty in assignments, examinations, or other academic performances are prohibited. You are not allowed to make copies of another person s work and submit it as your own; that is plagiarism. All cases of academic dishonesty will be reported to the University Management for appropriate sanctions in accordance with the guidelines for handling students misconduct as spelt out in the Students Handbook. Assignments and Group Work: Students are expected to submit assignments as scheduled. Failure to submit an assignment as at when due will earn you zero for that assignment. Only

4 under extenuating circumstances, for which a student has notified any of the instructors in advance, will late submission of assignments be permitted. Code of Conduct in Lecture Rooms and Laboratories: Students should turn off their cell phones during lectures. Students are prohibited from engaging in other activities (such as texting, watching videos, etc.) during lectures. Food and drinks are not permitted in the laboratories. READING LIST 1 Larry P.Pedigo and Marlin E. Rice 2006 Entomology and pest management person edu publisher pp749 1 Mary Louise Flint and Patricia Gouveia 2001 IPM in practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management pp296 1 Odeyemi O.O. and.daramola A. M 2000 Storage Practices in the Tropics pp253 2 Sam. O. Okunade 2006 Principles and Practices of Grain Storage pp109 Legend 1- Available in Departmental/School Libraries 2- Available as Personal Collection COURSE OUTLINE Week Topic Remarks 1 Introduction and Course Overview History and Types of Computers 2 & 3 Pesticide formulation abbreviation, merits and demerits of formulation, active ingredients, inert ingredient,phytotoxicity and roles of an adjuvants in pesticides formulation During this first class, the expectation of the students from the course will also be documented. Practical exercise will involve different insecticide formulation containers and their components to examine formulation abbreviation At the end students will recognise formulation

5 4 & 5 Preparation of pesticides formulation, roles of Inert ingredient,such as emulsifiers,solvents dry carrier materials stabilizer,dye; surfactant: spreaders, stickers,wetting agents abbreviation,,formulation advantages and disadvantages. The practical exercise will involve opening pesticide containers and prepare different pesticides formulations. The practical exercise will inform the students the roles of inert ingredients, adjuvant and surfactant in pesticides formulation. 6&7 Brand name abbreviation, factors to be considered before selecting pesticides formulation, pesticides mixing technology, liquid formulation i.e emulsifiable concentrate, solution,ready-to use low concentration solution, ultra- low volume and aerosol 8 Dry formulation (baits, paste, gel,dust,granules,pellets, wettable powder, soluble powder, microencapsulated, water soluble packet,fumigants. Pesticide compatibility/mixture 9 & 10 Calculation of active ingredient content of formulation and dosage of insecticides: Calculation of dissolve substance in w/w, w/v, v/v; Calculation of dilution rates of concentrates, Calculation of active ingredient, Calculation involve liquid and solid concentrate preparation and calculation of dosage for surface treatment. Exercises will involve teaching students the factors to be considered before selecting pesticide formulation. Taught students spray mixing technology and differences between different liquid formulation. Students will be requested to prepare different solid pesticide formulation in the practical class. Student will be taught practical application of fumigant insecticide on grains in bulk, grains in bin and grains in sacks for long term storage. MID-SEMESTER TEST During the practical class students will be requested to do some calculations.

6 11& 12 Knapsack sprayer use overview; knapsack sprayer calibration Students will be taught four steps to good knapsack spraying and maintenance of knapsack sprayer Students will be divided into groups in practical class and each group will use different pesticide to calibrate knapsack sprayer ASSIGNMENT ON EFFECT OF PESTICIDES ON ECOSYSTEM 13&14 15 REVISION This is the week preceding the final examination. At this time, evaluation will be done to assess how far the students expectations for the course have been met.