A brief about horticulture in India

Horticulture is the farming segment that involves growing fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, herbs and shrubs.

1.) Olericulture: Production of Vegetables.

2.) Floriculture: Production of flowering plants.

3.) Fruticulture/ Promology: Production of fruits.

While agriculture deals with crop farming and various other aspects of it, horticulture deals with vegetables, turfs, herbs, shrubs, fruits, etc. and their cultivation.

The fruits, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, etc., produced through horticulture are nutrient-rich. They thus are utilized for the betterment of humanity and ecology relationships and in increasing the health of humans.

1.) Floriculture.

2. ) Landscape horticulture.

3.) Olericulture.

4.) Post-harvest physiology.

5.) Pomology