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<h1 >Features And Importance Of Horticulture</h1>
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<h3>Features of Horticulture</h3>
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<li>Horticultural produces are mostly utilized in the fresh state and are highly perishable.</li>
<li>Horticultural crops need intensive cultivation requiring a large input of capital, labour and technology per unit area.</li>
<li>Cultural operations like propagation, training, pruning and harvesting are skilled and specific to horticultural crops. </li>
<li>Horticultural produce are rich source of vitamins and minerals and alkaloids.</li>
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<h3>Importance Of Horticulture</h3>
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<li>As per Indian Horticulture Database (2005), fruit crops cover an area of 4.96 m ha. and vegetables crops 6.75 m.ha.. Accordingly,
49.29 m.ton of fruits and 101.43 m ton of vegetables are produced in the country annually. To meet out the projected demand of
population by 2020 A.D, about 50 m.ton of fruits and 143 m. ton of vegetables would be required. Therefore by 2020 A.D. the
production of fruits needs to be increased. Requirements of export and processing industry further add to the requirements of
horticultural produce. In view of these, there is lot of scope of increasing production and potentiality of horticulture crops.</li>
<li>Apart from fruits and vegetables, floriculture industry in India comprising of florist trade, nursery plants, potted plants, seed
and bulb products is being observed as sunrise industry. There is soaring business of flowers in almost all metropolitan cities of
the different states. The developed flower market in the country during 2005 is with area of 2.24 lakh ha with a production of 6.54
lakh MT loose flowers and 19515 lakh cut flowers. The traditional flowers are grown on a large hectare of land on a commercial
scale. These flowers are mostly grown for loose flower purpose. Area under cut flowers like rose, chrysanthemum, gladiolus,
carnation and orchids is increasing day by day.</li>
<li>Plantation crops are another potential sector with lot of opportunities of employment generation, foreign exchange earnings and overall
supporting livelihood sustenance of mankind at large. These crops form the mainstay of lives especially in coastal areas of the
country where predominating stands of plantation crops are found. Coconut has so much importance in the country that the state
Kerala receives its very name on the basis of coconut, the Malayalam name of which is Kera.. These cover an area of 31.02 lakh
ha with a production of 131.60 lakh MT.</li>
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<h3 class="color">Horticulture is important for the following considerations</h3>
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<li>As a source of variability in produce.</li>
<li>As a source of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, flavour, aroma, alkaloids, oleoresins, fibre, etc.</li>
<li>As a source of medicine.</li>
<li>As an economic proposition as they give higher returns per unit area in terms of energy, money, job, etc.</li>
<li>Employment generation 860 man days/annum for fruit crops as against 143 man days/annum for cereal crops and the crops
like grapes, banana and pineapple need 1000- 2500 man days per annum.</li>
<li>Effective utilization of waste land through hardy fruits and medicinal plants.</li>
<li>As a substitute of family income being component of home garden.</li>
<li>As a foreign exchange earner has higher share compare to agriculture crops.</li>
<li>As an input for industry being amenable to processing, especially fruit and vegetable preservation industry.</li>
<li>Aesthetic consideration and protection of environment.</li>
<li>Religious significance.</li>
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<li>In short horticulture supplies quality food for health and mind, more calories per unit area, develops better resources and
yields higher returns per unit area.</li>
<li>It also enhances land value and creates better purchasing power for those who are engaged in this industry.</li>
<li>Therefore, horticulture is important for health, wealth, hygiene and happiness.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reson for scope of Horticulture</h3>
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<h4 class="color">In brief it can be stated that horticulture has great scope for the following reasons</h4>
<ul>
<li>To exploit great variability of agro climatic conditions.</li>
<li>To meet the need for fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, beverages in relation to population growth based on
minimum nutritional and other needs.</li>
<li>To meet the requirement of processing industry.</li>
<li>To substitute import and increase export.</li>
<li>To improve the economic conditions of the farmers and to engage more labourers to avert the problem of unemployment.</li>
<li>To protect environment.</li>
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<h4 class="color">Other importance</h4>
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<li>Horticultural trees work in near semblance to forest trees in maintaining ecosphere.</li>
<li>They helps in transforming micro climate.</li>
<li>Provides shelter to birds, reptiles and other micro organisms and add to the geo-ecological diversity on the land</li>
<li>Provides impetus to the writers, poets, thinkers and analysts and thus keeps their cultural impulse alive</li>
<li>Adds to the survival of life-spheres of living entity</li>
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