HORTICULTURE
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Discussion on Horticulture
Horticulture is a term that evokes images of plants, gardening and people working in the horticultural industries. Horticulture impacts widely on human activities, more than its popular understanding as merely "gardening" would indicate. It needs to be recognised as a matrix of interrelating areas that overlap, with complex interrelationships. A wider and more accurate definition will communicate effectively the importance of plants, their cultivation and their use for sustainable human existence. The popular "gardening activity" sense fails to convey the important role that horticulture plays in the lives of individuals, communities and human societies as a whole. Describing its impact on the physiological, psychological and social activities of people is key to expanding our understanding; however "the cultivation of a garden, orchard or nursery" and "the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables or ornamental plants" as well as "the science and art of cultivating such plants" will suffice to sketch the outline of a short description.
It can be concluded that horticulture happens when people are in intimate, intensive contact with plants. It is the interface between people and plants.
Horticulture involves eight areas of study, which can be grouped into two broad sections: ornamentals and edibles. More precisely as shown below:
Disciplines which complement horticulture include permaculture, biology, botany, entomology, chemistry, geography, mathematics, genetics, physiology, statistics, computer science, communications, garden design, and planting design. Plant science and horticulture courses include: plant materials, plant propagation, tissue culture, crop production, post-harvest handling, plant breeding, pollination management, crop nutrition, entomology, plant pathology, economics, and business (adapted text from Wikipedia).
It can be concluded that horticulture happens when people are in intimate, intensive contact with plants. It is the interface between people and plants.
Horticulture involves eight areas of study, which can be grouped into two broad sections: ornamentals and edibles. More precisely as shown below:
- Arboriculture is the study of and the selection, planting, care and removal of individual trees, shrubs, vines and other perennial woody plants.
- Turf management includes all aspects of the production and maintenance of turf grass for sports, leisure use or amenity use.
- Floriculture includes the production and marketing of floral crops.
- Landscape horticulture includes the production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants.
- Olericulture includes the production and marketing of vegetables.
- Pomology includes the production and marketing of pome fruits.
- Viticulture includes the production and marketing of grapes.
- Oenology includes all aspects of wine and winemaking.
- Postharvest physiology involves maintaining the quality of and preventing the spoilage of plants.
Disciplines which complement horticulture include permaculture, biology, botany, entomology, chemistry, geography, mathematics, genetics, physiology, statistics, computer science, communications, garden design, and planting design. Plant science and horticulture courses include: plant materials, plant propagation, tissue culture, crop production, post-harvest handling, plant breeding, pollination management, crop nutrition, entomology, plant pathology, economics, and business (adapted text from Wikipedia).
Horticulture in Pictures
Broad Categories of Horticulture (external site)
- Introduction to Horticulture
- Olericulture: Vegetable Production
- Ornamental Horticulture
- Production Technology of Horticultural Fruit Crops
- Production Technology of Plantation Crops
- Production Technology of Spices
- Production Technology of Aromatic Crops
- Production Technology of Medicinal Crops
- Post Harvest Technology of Fruits and Vegetables
- Silviculture and Agroforestry