Fundamentals of Horticulture

Teacher

Dr. Barsha Tripathy

Category

Core Courses

Course Name : FUNDAMENTALS OF HORTICULTURE

Code(Credit) : ASHO 1101 (1-1-0)

Course Objectives

  • To provide knowledge of horticulture in a brief and prescribed manner.
  • To introduce the students to green industry.
  • To encourage students to be responsible for environment by demonstrating and valuing sustainable practices.

Learning Outcomes

  • To enable the students to apply various horticultural skills and knowledge in their career.
  • To identify and prescribe sustainable options in horticulture which benefit the environment while maintaining productivity and economic viability.

Course Syllabus

Theory:

Horticulture-its definition and branches, importance and Scope; Horticultural and  Botanical Classification; Climate and Soil for Horticulture Crops; Plant Propagation Methods and Propagating structures; Principles of Orchard establishment; Principles and methods of Training and Pruning; Juvenility and Flower bud differentiation; Unfruitfulness; Pollination, pollinisers and pollinators; Fertilisation and Parthenocarpy; Kitchen gardening; Garden types and parts; Lawn making; Medicinal and aromatic plants; Spices and condiments; Use of plant bio-regulators in horticulture; Irrigation and Fertilisers application.

Practical:

Identification of garden tools; Identification of horticultural crops; Preparation of seedbed/nursery bed; Practice of sexual and asexual method of propagation; Layout and planting of orchard plants; Training and pruning of fruit trees; Transplanting and care of vegetable seedlings; Making of herbaceous and shrubbery borders; Preparation of potting mixture; potting and repotting; Fertiliser application in different crops; Visit to commercial nurseries and orchards.

References:

  1. Basics of Horticulture by Jitendra Singh
  2. Introduction to Horticulture by N.Kumar

Session Plan

Session 1

Horticulture-its definition and branches, importance and Scope

Horticulture-Introduction-1

HORTICULTURE INTRODUCTION

Session 2

Horticultural and Botanical Classification

Classification-1

CLASSIFICATION

Session 3

Climate and Soil for Horticulture Crops

CLIMATE AND SOIL

Session 4

Plant Propagation Methods and Propagating structures

 Propagation methods-1

Structures-1

PROPAGATION

Session 5

Propagating Structures

Propagating Structures

Session 6

Principles of Orchard establishment
Orchard-1

ORCHARD

Session 7

Session 8

Juvenility, Flower bud differentiation, Pollination, Fertilisation

Flower bud differentiation-1

FLOWER BUD DIFFERENTIATION

Session 9

Unfruitfulness

Unfruitfulness

Session 10

Session 11

Garden and Lawn making

Garden and Lawn-1

GARDEN

Session 12

Medicinal and aromatic plants

MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS

Session 13

Spices and condiments

SPICES AND CONDIMENTS

Session 14

Plant bio-regulators in horticulture
Plant Bio-regulators-1

Plant bio-regulators

Session 15

Practice-1

Identification of Horticultural plants

Identification 1

Identification 2

Identification

Identification

Practice-2

Identification of garden tools

Identification 1

Identification of garden tools

Practice-3

Preparation of seedbed/nursery bed, the raising of seedlings

Preparation of seedbed/nursery bed, raising of seedlings

seedling raising 1

Practice-4

Practice of sexual method of propagation

Practice of sexual method of propagation

Practice-5

Practice of asexual method of propagation

budding

grafting

cutting

layering

Propagation 1

Propagation 2

Practice-6

Propagation through specialized vegetative structures

Propagation through specialized vegetative structures

Practice-7

Layout and planting of orchard plants

Layout and planting of orchard plants

Orchard-1

Practice-8 and 9

Training and pruning of fruit trees

Training and pruning of fruit trees

Training 1

Practice-10

Practice-12

Practice-14

Fertiliser application in different crops

Fertiliser 1

Practice-16

Case Studies

Case Studies