Prospective women entrepreneurs receive tips at seminar
The Hindu
Prospective women entrepreneurs were briefed on prospects for self-employment from successful entrepreneurs and government officials implementing MSME schemes during a two-day seminar here.The seminar
Prospective women entrepreneurs were briefed on prospects for self-employment from successful entrepreneurs and government officials implementing MSME schemes during a two-day seminar here. The seminar on ‘Entrepreneurial opportunities in MSME sector and scope in emerging technologies: challenges and prospects in COVID-19 pandemic’ organised jointly by the Department of Women’s Studies, Bharathidasan University, and Women Entrepreneurs’ Association of Tamil Nadu to commemorate National MSME Day witnessed grocery shop owners, tailors, aari work designers, home bakers, cake designers and mushroom cultivators sensitising participants to the path to entrepreneurship from scratch, S.Suba, Associate Professor in the department, said.“Spider wasp,” says ecologist and nature educator Vena Kapoor, narrating the fascinating but macabre tale of the spider wasp and its victims. While adult spider wasps mostly feed on flower nectar, making them excellent pollinators, they are also what are known as “parasitoids.” Unlike parasites, they kill their host. In the case of spider wasps, females hunt down spiders, inject them with venom and lay eggs on them. Once they hatch, the larvae eat these spiders alive, inevitably killing them, she tells the huddle of women cloistered around this tree.