Thursday, 4 May 2017

Essential Components of a nursery in fruit crops


A nursery should consist of the following components

    Building Structures:

        This includes office, sale counter, packing shed, potting shed, store, implement shed and residential quarter.

    Progeny Tree Block:
  •  The current choice of kind and variety of fruit crops and collection of true to type mother plants have strong bearing on the success and goodwill of a nursery industry.
  • Suitable fruit crops should be selected to meet the demand of the customers.
  • There should be a collection of good number of promising varieties of popular crops to make a wide choice.
  • The progeny tree should be healthy, disease free, genetically true to type and free from pest attack.
  •  The pedigree of these plants should be known to the nursery man.

    Propagation Structures:

        structures like green house, glass house, poly house, hot bed, cold frames, lath house, shade house, mist house are used to create congenial condition for the propagation of plants.

Horticulture JRF 2018 question paper