BAG1022 FUNDAMENTALS O
COURSE SYLLABUS:
HORTICULTURE
THEORY
,FIVE MODULES
Module:1 Horticulture: Scope and Importance
• Definition, divisions and branches of horticulture.
• Importance of horticulture in terms of income, employment
generation, industry, religious, aesthetic, food, nutritive value a
export. Horticultural and botanical classification.
• Climate and soil for horticultural crops. Influence of environmen
factors on horticultural crop production: Temperature, humidity
wind, rainfall and solar radiation.
• Influence of soil factors: Soil type, pH and EC.
, Propagating structures and method
Sexual and asexual methods
propagation-seed dormancy and se
MODULE II
germination, stem, leaf and root cuttin
layering, separation, bulbs, corm
division, grafting and budding.
, Layout of orchards. Systems
planting.
Lawn making, Principles and metho
of training and pruning - open cen
closed center and modified lea
MODULE III systems.
Juvenility and flower b
PRINCIPLES OF
differentiation: methods for shorten
ORCHARD
juvenility and bearing habits of fr
ESTABLISHMENT
trees.
Unfruitfulness, pollination, polliniz
and pollinators. Fertilization a
parthenocarpy. Medicinal and aroma
plants.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
HORTICULTURE
THEORY
,FIVE MODULES
Module:1 Horticulture: Scope and Importance
• Definition, divisions and branches of horticulture.
• Importance of horticulture in terms of income, employment
generation, industry, religious, aesthetic, food, nutritive value a
export. Horticultural and botanical classification.
• Climate and soil for horticultural crops. Influence of environmen
factors on horticultural crop production: Temperature, humidity
wind, rainfall and solar radiation.
• Influence of soil factors: Soil type, pH and EC.
, Propagating structures and method
Sexual and asexual methods
propagation-seed dormancy and se
MODULE II
germination, stem, leaf and root cuttin
layering, separation, bulbs, corm
division, grafting and budding.
, Layout of orchards. Systems
planting.
Lawn making, Principles and metho
of training and pruning - open cen
closed center and modified lea
MODULE III systems.
Juvenility and flower b
PRINCIPLES OF
differentiation: methods for shorten
ORCHARD
juvenility and bearing habits of fr
ESTABLISHMENT
trees.
Unfruitfulness, pollination, polliniz
and pollinators. Fertilization a
parthenocarpy. Medicinal and aroma
plants.
