Horticulture: Branches & Importance PDF

& Important of Biology in Daily Life Horticulture (ဟင်းသ်းဟင်းရွှက /သစသ်းဝလံပန်းမာန စိုကပ ်းခြင်း) Horticulture is a branch of agriculture. It is defined as the applied science of cultivating and growing plants used for both consumption and aesthetic or ornamental purposes. Hort...

& Important of Biology in Daily Life Horticulture (ဟင်းသ်းဟင်းရွှက /သစသ်းဝလံပန်းမာန စိုကပ ်းခြင်း) Horticulture is a branch of agriculture. It is defined as the applied science of cultivating and growing plants used for both consumption and aesthetic or ornamental purposes. Horticulture involves plant propagation and cultivation to improve the plant growths, yields, quality, nutritional values, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses. Horticulture  It also includes 1. plant conservations, 2. landscape restoration, 3. soil management, 4. landscape and garden designs construction and 5. maintenance, and arboriculture. plant conservations The word “horticulture” is derived from the Latin words ‘hortus’ and ‘cultura’, which mean ‘garden’ and ‘cultivation’. Landscape and Landscape restoration Soil Management Garden designs Arboriculture Agriculture contrast horticulture In contrast to agriculture, horticulture does not include the intensive crop farming and large-scale crop production or animal husbandry. Additionally, horticulture focuses on the use of small plots with a wide variety of mixed crops while agriculture focuses on one large primary crop at a time. Horticulture  The major types of horticulture include 1. Pomology , (သစ်သီးဝလံစိုကပ ် ီးခြင်ီး) Medicinal and aromatic plant 2. Olericulture, (ဟင်ီးသီးဟင်ီးရွှကစ ် ိုကပ ် ီးခြင်ီး) 3. Ornamental horticulture (ပန်ီးအလှစိုကပ ် ီးခြင်ီး) 4. Medicinal and aromatic plant culture (ဆ ီးဖက်ဝင်ပင်နငှ ရ ် နံပင်မ ီးစိုကပ ် ီးခြင်ီး) 5. Plantation crops culture and (သီးနှစ ံ ိုကြ ် င်ီးမ ီးစိုကပ ် ီးခြင်ီး) 6. Postharvest management (ရတ်သမ်ီးြ န်လနွ ် စမံြနြ ် ွွဲမှု) Ornamental horticulture olericulture pomology (i) Pomology or Fruticulture (သစသ်းဝလံစက ို ပ ်းခြင်း) Pomology or Fruticulture is the production of fruits and nuts. fruits Pomology and Fruticulture (သစသ်းဝလံစိုကပ ်းခြင်း) (ii) Olericulture (ဟင်းသ်းဟင်းရွှကစက ို ပ ်းခြင်း) medicine Olericulture is the vegetable growing, dealing with the culture of non-woody (herbaceous) plants for foods. (iii) Ornamental horticulture (ပန််းအလှစိုက်ပ ်းခြင််း) ❑ Ornamental horticulture is the science and practice of growing aesthetic plants. ❑ Ornamental horticulture includes both flowering and non-flowering types of plants and may be classified into the following subdivisions: 1. Floriculture 2. Arboriculture 3. Turf management 4. Landscape horticulture 5. Interiorscaping 1. Floriculture (ပန်းပငအလှစိုကပ ်းခြင်း) Floriculture is the growing and marketing of flowers and ornamental plants for floristry. ornamental plants 2. Arboriculture (သစတ ာသစပငစက ို ပ ်းခြင်း) ❑ Arboriculture is the cultivation and care of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants, ❑ Primarily to maintain individual woody plants and trees for long-term landscape and amenity purposes. 3. Turf Management (ခမကြင်း စို က ို ပ ်းခြင်းနည်းပညာ) Turf Management is the production and upkeep of turf, artificial and live, for use in recreation. Sports stadiums, civilian landscaping, and leisure are among the largest users of turf management services. 4. Landscape Horticulture (တခမယာရှု ြင်းစိုကပ ်းခြင်း) ❑ Landscape Horticulture is the selection, production and care of plants used in landscape architecture. 5. Interior scaping (အတွင်း် ပိုင််းအလှဆင်ခြင််း) Interior scaping is the practice of designing and arranging the interior spaces of buildings with plants and other elements of nature to create a more aesthetically pleasing and healthier environment. (iv) Medicinal and aromatic plants culture (ဆဆ်းဖက်ဝင်ပင်နှင် ရနံ့ပင်မ ်းစိုက်ပ ်းခြင််း) Medicinal and aromatic plants culture is a recently developed horticulture which deals with the growing and handling of medicinal and aromatic plants. (v) Plantation crops (သ်းနှစိုက်ြင််းမ ်းစိုကပ ် ်းခြင််း) Plantation crops culture deals with science and practice of plantation crops growing. (vi) Postharvest management (ရ သမ်းြ နလွနစမံြနြွွဲမှု) ❑ Postharvest management is the management of harvested horticultural crops to determine the best storage and transportation conditions to optimize shelf life after harvest. (figure 1.9 A to H) Figure 1.8 – Branches of horticulture  A B C D olericulture floriculture pomology Interior scaping landscape horticulture arboriculture turf management postharvest management E F G H Review and assessment (Horticulture) 1. What do the Latin words hortus and cultural mean? (a) harvested and cultivation (b) plant and growth(c) garden and cultivation (d) soil and fertility 2. Arboriculture is a part of horticulture that specifically focuses on: (a) indoor plant cultivation (b) tree care and management (c) hydroponic gardening (d) organic farming techniques 3. Where does the word horticulture originated from? (a) German (b) Latin (c)Italian (d) Chinese 4. Which type of horticulture deals with the production and upkeep of turf for recreational use? (a) Arboriculture (b) Turf Management (c) Landscape Horticulture (d) Postharvest Physiology 5. Which of the following in Not a major type of horticulture? (a) Olericulture (b) Aquaculture (c) Pomology (d) Floriculture 6. Which of the following is Not a part of horticulture? (a) landscape restoration (b) soil management (c) marine biology (d) plant conservation 7. Which of the following is not a part of horticulture? (a) Landscape restoration (b) Soil management (c) Marine biology (d) Arboriculture 8. What is pomology also known as? (a) Fruticulture (b) Herbiculture (c) Floriculture (d) Viticulture 9. What does floriculture involves? (a) care of individual trees (b) production of turf (c) cultivation of grapes (d) growing and marketing of flowers 10. What is the main focus of arboriculture? (a) Cultivation of aquatic plants (b) Maintenance of individual woody plants (c) Production of ornamental plants (d) Postharvest physiology 11. Which includes plant conservations, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden designs, construction and maintenance, and arboriculture. (a) Agriculture (b) Hydroponic culture (c) Horticulture (d) Pisciculture 12. Horticulture does not include (a) intensive crop farming (b) animal husbandry (c) large-scale crop farming (d) all of these 13. Agriculture focuses on (a) one large primary crop at a time (b) use of small plots (c) a wide variety of mixed crops (d) all of these 14. Olericulture is dealing with the culture of ------------- for food. (a) woody plant (b) non-woody plant (c) tree (d) grapes Review and assessment (Horticulture) 1. Briefly state about horticulture and explain the meaning of the word. 2. Contrast between agriculture and horticulture. 3. Enumerate the major types of horticulture.