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Exploring the Horticulture Field

Exploring the Horticulture Field. Defining:. Latin - “Hortus” meaning garden “Culture” meaning cultivation. Today, Hort includes:. cultivation processing sale of fruits, nuts, veggies, ornamental plants and flowers. As an industry.

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Exploring the Horticulture Field

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  1. Exploring the Horticulture Field

  2. Defining: • Latin - “Hortus” meaning garden • “Culture” meaning cultivation

  3. Today, Hort includes: • cultivation • processing • sale of fruits, nuts, veggies, ornamental plants and flowers.

  4. As an industry • horticulture contributes over $25 billion to the U.S. economy

  5. Major divisions of hort industry • Pomology - The science and practice of growing, harvesting, handling, storing, processing, and marketing tree fruits

  6. Olericulture • Vegetables

  7. Floriculture • Flowering plants

  8. Ornamental and Landscape • using grasses, annuals, shrubs, and trees in the landscape

  9. Additional specialized areas • seed production

  10. Related Occupations • those areas that provide products and services necessary in the production of hort. Crops. • Ex: fertilizer, pesticides, containers, machinery,

  11. Related Occupations • research and education

  12. Selecting a Job • in a career, do you desire a job that involves: • year round work • regular hours • a variety of tasks

  13. Selecting a Job • working in one place • security of fringe benefits • working alone • working with others

  14. Selecting a Job • educational requirements • guarantee of promotion

  15. Other factors • will the job be challenging • what types of duties does the job involve • what skills does the job involve • are there jobs available

  16. The future of the hort industry • currently in a state of rapid growth • people are becoming more concerned about their surroundings, world resources,

  17. Cont. • conservation, and controlling pollution

  18. In the future: • more plants will be used to: • beautify surroundings • conserve soil and control pollutants • Protect and feed wildlife

  19. More families • will plant gardens as food costs increase

  20. The future • looks exceptionally good for those involved in working with plants and providing goods and services related to horticulture

  21. Production of hort crops • population increases and people have more leisure time, more gardening of all types will be done

  22. Production of hort crops • demand for fruits, veggies, ornamentals and landscaping plants will increase

  23. Production of hort crops • Increase in demand for veggie plants = substantial increase in production business

  24. Service Industries • increased need for fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, chemicals, tools and equipment

  25. Marketing • more people are employed in marketing than production • if marketing increases all other areas will as well

  26. Inspection • government, private processing • determine disease and insect problems and peak crop quality

  27. Teaching and Extension Work • more students need training, requiring more teachers • quickly changing technology requires specialists and professionals

  28. Research • to increase production, researchers must: • develop better varieties • improve insect and disease resistance

  29. Develop better ways to: • grow • harvest • preserve • package • storing and marketing

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