Agriculture & Harticulture

Welcome to JNCTE Agriculture & Harticulture courses JNCTE Horticulture has been defined as the culture of plants, mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty.[1] According to an American horticulture scholar, "Horticulture is the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and of plants for ornament and fancy. A more precise definition can be given as "The cultivation, processing, and sale of fruits, nuts, vegetables, ornamental plants, and flowers as well as many additional services". It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture. In contrast to agriculture, horticulture does not include large-scale crop production or animal husbandry.
Horticulturists apply knowledge, skills, and technologies to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs. Their work involves plant propagation and cultivation with the aim of improving plant growth, yields, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses. They work as gardeners, growers, therapists, designers, and technical advisors in the food and non-food sectors of horticulture.

ORGANIC FARMING IN HORTICULTURE

Organic farming is a crop production method respecting the rules of the nature. Organic horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic agriculture in soil building and conservation, pest management, and heirloom variety preservation.
The Latin words hortus (garden) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. Horticulture is also sometimes defined simply as "agriculture minus the plough." Instead of the plough, horticulture makes use of human labour and gardener's hand tools, although small machine tools like rotary tillers are common now.
Organic farming provides a real opportunity for horticultural crop production, expend the food market worldwide (organically produced food has great demand in foreign countries ; there is major deficiency of home produced organic fruit and vegetable in certain countries like Island), has lower cost of production and provide good price premium which may cover reductions in yield during early phase of organic farming system. It increases the opportunity of direct sale of produce e.g. Farmers Markets, Farm Shops etc.

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