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HORTICULTURAL CROPS

Course Overview: Horticultural Crops

Course Description

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the major horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, floriculture, and medicinal/ aromatic plants. It covers their botanical characteristics, cultivation practices, environmental requirements, propagation methods, production technologies, and post-harvest management. Students will gain practical knowledge essential for commercial horticulture, sustainable production, and agribusiness development.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the classification and economic importance of horticultural crops.

  • Identify major fruit, vegetable, flower, and spice crops.

  • Learn climate and soil requirements for different horticultural species.

  • Apply scientific methods of propagation, nursery management, and crop production.

  • Understand crop protection measures against pests, diseases, and physiological disorders.

  • Use modern technologies such as precision horticulture, protected cultivation, and irrigation systems.

  • Assess post-harvest handling, storage, grading, and marketing of horticultural produce.

Key Modules / Units

1. Introduction to Horticulture

  • Scope and importance

  • Branches of horticulture

  • Crop classification

  • Global and national scenario of horticultural production

2. Fruit Crops

  • Major tropical, subtropical, and temperate fruits

  • Orchard establishment

  • Propagation (grafting, budding, layering, tissue culture)

  • Training and pruning

  • Nutrient and water management

3. Vegetable Crops

  • Classification and nutritional importance

  • Cultivation of solanaceous, cucurbitaceous, leafy, root, and tuber vegetables

  • Nursery techniques

  • Hybrid seed production

4. Floriculture and Landscaping

  • Important flower crops (rose, jasmine, orchid, marigold, etc.)

  • Protected cultivation of flowers

  • Principles of garden design and landscaping

5. Spices, Condiments & Plantation Crops

  • Crops like pepper, cardamom, turmeric, coffee, tea, coconut, and cocoa

  • Cultivation practices

  • Harvesting and processing

6. Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

  • Importance and major species

  • Cultivation practices

  • Extraction and uses of essential oils

7. Pest, Disease & Disorder Management

  • Identification

  • Integrated pest management (IPM)

  • Common physiological disorders in horticulture

8. Post-Harvest Technology

  • Maturity indices

  • Harvesting, grading, packaging, storage, and value addition

  • Supply chain and marketing

9. Modern Advances in Horticulture

  • Greenhouse and polyhouse farming

  • Drip irrigation & fertigation

  • Precision agriculture

  • Hydroponics and vertical farming

Course Outcomes

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

  • Recognize and describe the key horticultural crops and their production systems

  • Implement improved cultivation and management practices

  • Diagnose major crop disorders and propose solutions

  • Handle post-harvest operations to minimize losses

  • Apply modern techniques to increase productivity and profitability