Exploring the Horticulture Field

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Exploring the Horticulture Field
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Defining

• Latin - Hortus meaning garden
• Culture meaning cultivation

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Today, Hort includes

• cultivation
• processing
• sale of fruits, nuts, veggies, ornamental plants
  and flowers.

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As an industry

• horticulture contributes over 25 billion to the
  U.S. economy

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Major divisions of hort industry

• Pomology - The science and practice of growing,
  harvesting, handling, storing, processing, and
  marketing tree fruits

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Olericulture

• Vegetables

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Floriculture

• Flowering plants

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Ornamental and Landscape

• using grasses, annuals, shrubs, and trees in the
  landscape

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Additional specialized areas

• seed production

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Related Occupations

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

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Related Occupations

• research and education

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Selecting a Job

• in a career, do you desire a job that involves
• year round work
• regular hours
• a variety of tasks

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Selecting a Job

• working in one place
• security of fringe benefits
• working alone
• working with others

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Selecting a Job

• educational requirements
• guarantee of promotion

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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

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The future of the hort industry

• currently in a state of rapid growth
• people are becoming more concerned about their
  surroundings, world resources,

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Cont.

• conservation, and controlling pollution

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In the future

• more plants will be used to
• beautify surroundings
• conserve soil and control pollutants
• Protect and feed wildlife

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More families

• will plant gardens as food costs increase

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The future

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

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Production of hort crops

• population increases and people have more leisure
  time, more gardening of all types will be done

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Production of hort crops

• demand for fruits, veggies, ornamentals and
  landscaping plants will increase

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Production of hort crops

• Increase in demand for veggie plants
  substantial increase in production business

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Service Industries

• increased need for fertilizers, pesticides,
  seeds, chemicals, tools and equipment

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Marketing

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

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Inspection

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

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Teaching and Extension Work

• more students need training, requiring more
  teachers
• quickly changing technology requires specialists
  and professionals

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Research

• to increase production, researchers must
• develop better varieties
• improve insect and disease resistance

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Develop better ways to

• grow
• harvest
• preserve
• package
• storing and marketing