Horticulture

Ajay Kumar Joshi | Associate Director | Regional Horticultural Research & Training Station

What is Horticulture?

Horticulture is a great Career option. Internet is brimming with pages on How to get into Horticulture, while one should first understand What is a Career in Horticulture. Just like you would normally not trust a non Doctor with names of medicines, you should also not trust opinions about Horticulture from non professionals.

Associate Director Ajay Kumar Joshi invested 27 years in Horticulture. According to Associate Director Ajay Kumar Joshi, Horticulture is:

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture.

How Associate Director Ajay Kumar Joshi got into Horticulture?

After completing my PhD in Agriculture from Punjab University, I started working as an Assistant Professor in Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan and after that joined Regional Horticultural Research & Training Station as an Associate Director.

Associate Director Ajay Kumar Joshi's Talk on Horticulture

Starts with what is:
1)	Horticulture

Next, it covers Education. We all know that only 10% of what is taught in Horticulture is actually used in real life. The Education section of the Talk clearly explained what is the 10% needed in Horticulture. It explains Education needed in Horticulture with these items:
2)	Plant Breeding & Genetics
3)	Agronomy
4)	Biology
5)	Mathematics & Statistics
6)	Economics
7)	Agricultural Engineering
8)	Soil Science
9)	Plant Physiology
10)	Plant Protection

Then, the Talk focuses on the most important component that is Skills. Horticulture demands specific Skills which only an experienced professional can lay out. It explains Skills needed in Horticulture with these items:
11)	Farming Techniques
12)	Management of Crops
13)	Handling the Produce
14)	Marketing
15)	Tech-savvy
16)	Multitasking

There are great positives of Horticulture. This Talk defines Positives in terms of following items for Horticulture:
17)	Diverse Opportunities
18)	High Returns per Unit Area
19)	Growth

Challenges define Horticulture as much as the Positives of the same:
20)	Global Warming
21)	Urbanisation
22)	Lackadaisical Approach of Youth
23)	Lack of Technical Know How

In the final section of the Talk, Ajay Kumar Joshi talks about How a day goes in a Career in:
24)	Horticulture

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Links for this Talk

LifePage Career Talk on Horticulture

[Career]
https://www.lifepage.in/careers/horticulture

[Full Talk]
https://lifepage.app.link/20171110-0002

[Trailer]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Kg-VMhwLU

(Horticulture, Dr Ajay Kumar Joshi, Regional Horticultural Research & Training Station, Plant Breeding, Plant Conservation, Landscape Restoration, Soil Management, Arboriculture, Landscape and Garden Design)

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