Course Objectives

To provide basic knowledge of horticulture in a brief and prescribed manner.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Syllabus

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

Session Plan

THEORY

Session 1

Scope of horticulture, Soil and climatic requirements for fruits, vegetables and floriculture crops

http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/

Session 2

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

Session 3

macro and micro propagation methods

https://youtu.be/NqqeeAlp9zA,

Session 4

plant growing structures, pruning and training

http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/mod/page/view.php?id=1586

Session 5

water requirements and critical stages, irrigation methods

Session 6

fertilizer application, fertigation

Session 7

harvesting, grading and packaging, post harvest practices, Extraction and storage of vegetables seeds

Session 8

Garden tools,

Session 9

management of orchard

http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/horticulture/horti_orchard%20management.html

Session 10

Major pests and diseases and their management in horticulture crops

http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/pdf/7.pdf

Practical

Session 1

Identification and description of important fruits, flowers and vegetable crops and Judging maturity time for harvesting of crop

Session 2

Study of seed viability and germination test

Session 3

Study of different garden tools

Session 4

Preparation of nursery bed

Session 5

Practices of pruning and training in some important fruit crops

Session 6

visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse

Session 7

cultural operations for vegetable crops (sowing, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control)

Session 8

seed extraction techniques

Session 9

identification of important pests and diseases and their control

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Case Studies

Case Studies