Course description

Domain Track: Protected Horticulture

Protected Horticulture focuses on cultivating high-value crops in controlled environments to optimize growth, quality, and yield. It involves advanced techniques such as greenhouse farming, polyhouses, and hydroponics, supported by automation and climate control technologies. This domain emphasizes sustainable practices, efficient resource management, and year-round production of fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants. Protected horticulture is pivotal in addressing food security, reducing environmental impact, and enhancing agricultural productivity in diverse climatic conditions.

What will i learn?

  • CO1 Hands-on experience on Protected cultivation: method and techniques
  • CO2 Knowledge of Polyhouse cultivation of vegetables, flowers, fruits, etc.
  • CO3 Practice on production management of flower, medicinal and aromatic crops PO3, PO5
  • CO4 Scale up trade, market, and agriculture economic

Text books & references

AJAY KUMAR.A

Free

Modules

3

Skill level

Beginner

Expiry period

Lifetime

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