PREAMBLE

This Course deals with various principles and practices followed for horticulture crops and plant protection methods like identification of crop varieties, seed selection and treatment, sowing practices, water and fertilizer management, harvesting methods and pot harvest processing of horticulture crops
PREREQUISITE

NIL
COURSE OUTCOMES

 At the end of the course learners will be able to
CO1 Identify different varieties of crops Apply
CO2 Select suitable site and season for different varieties of crop Apply
CO3 Experiment with growth management practice of different crops Apply
CO4 Analyse different water and fertilizer management methods Analyze
CO5 Evaluate different post harvest methods in horticulture crops Evaluate

SYLLABUS

UNIT I

INTRODUCTION

9

Scope of horticultural. Soil and climatic requirements for fruits, vegetables and floriculture crops, improved varieties,
Identification and description of important fruits, flowers and vegetable crops;

UNIT II

SITE SELECTION AND PLANTING

9

Criteria for site selection, layout and planting methods, nursery raising, commercial varieties/hybrids, sowing and planting times and methods
Preparation of nursery bed;

UNIT III

GROWTH MANAGEMENT

9

seed rate and seed treatment for vegetable crops; macro and micro propagation methods, plant growing structures, pruning and training
Practices of pruning and training in some important fruit crops, visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse; Study of seed viability and germination test; seed extraction techniques

UNIT IV

WATER AND FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT

9

crop coefficients, water requirements and critical stages, fertilizer application, fertigation, irrigation methods, harvesting, grading and packaging,
Judging maturity time for harvesting of crop;
cultural operations for vegetable crops (sowing, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control);

UNIT V

POST HARVEST OF HORTICULTURE CROPS

9

post-harvest practices, Garden tools, management of orchard, Extraction and storage of vegetables seeds. Major pests and diseases and their management in horticulture crops.
Study of different garden tools;
identification of important pests and diseases and their control.


TOTAL PERIODS

45

LIST OF EQUIPMENT NEEDED / PLATFORM NEEDED

LIST OF EQUIPMENTS FOR BATCH OF 30 STUDENTS

1. A wet land / garden land for a minimum of 5 cents area for each / group of students.
2. An open / borewell as water source to support cultivation

TEXT BOOKS
1. Bansal. P.C. 2008. Horticulture in India. CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.
2. Saraswathy, S., T.L. Preethi, S. Balasubramanyan, J. Suresh, N. Revathy and S. Natarajan. 2007. Postharvest management of Horticultural Crops. Agrobios Publishers, Jodhpur.

REFERENCES
1. Arjunan, G., Karthikeyan, G, Dinakaran, D. and Raguchander, T. 1999. Diseases of Horticultural Crops. AE Publications, Coimbatore.
2. Sharma Neeta and MashkoorAlam. 1997. Postharvest diseases of Horticultural crops. International Book publishing Co. UP.

COURSE DESIGNERS

1. Ms.S.Sahieen This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2. Mr.N.Vishnuvardan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.