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To provide basic knowledge of horticulture in a brief and prescribed manner.
To enable the students to apply various horticultural skills and knowledge in their career.
Students will able to identify different horticultural crops and their seeds.
Theory
Scope of horticultural. Soil and climatic requirements for fruits, vegetables and floriculture crops, improved varieties, Criteria for site selection, layout and planting methods, nursery raising, commercial varieties/hybrids, sowing and planting times and methods, seed rate and seed treatment for vegetable crops; macro and micro propagation methods, plant growing structures, pruning and training, crop coefficients, water requirements and critical stages, fertilizer application, fertigation, irrigation methods, harvesting, grading and packaging, post harvest practices, Garden tools, management of orchard, Extraction and storage of vegetables seeds. Major pests and diseases and their management in horticulture crops.
Practical
Judging maturity time for harvesting of crop; Study of seed viability and germination test; Identification and description of important fruits, flowers and vegetable crops; Study of different garden tools; Preparation of nursery bed; Practices of pruning and training in some important fruit crops, visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse; cultural operations for vegetable crops (sowing, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control); seed extraction techniques; identification of important pests and diseases and their control.
Reference Books
Basics of Horticulture by Jitendra Singh
Introduction to Horticulture by N.Kumar
Scope of horticulture, Soil and climatic requirements for fruits, vegetables and floriculture crops
http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/
Criteria for site selection, layout and planting methods, nursery raising,improved varieties, commercial varieties/hybrids, seed rate and seed treatment for vegetable crops, sowing and planting times
macro and micro propagation methods
https://youtu.be/NqqeeAlp9zA,
plant growing structures, pruning and training
http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/mod/page/view.php?id=1586
water requirements and critical stages, irrigation methods
fertilizer application, fertigation
harvesting, grading and packaging, post harvest practices, Extraction and storage of vegetables seeds
Garden tools,
management of orchard
http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/horticulture/horti_orchard%20management.html
Major pests and diseases and their management in horticulture crops
http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/pdf/7.pdf
Practical
Identification and description of important fruits, flowers and vegetable crops and Judging maturity time for harvesting of crop
Study of seed viability and germination test
Study of different garden tools
Preparation of nursery bed
Practices of pruning and training in some important fruit crops
visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse
cultural operations for vegetable crops (sowing, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control)
seed extraction techniques
identification of important pests and diseases and their control
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