HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT

PROFILE:

Horticulture is an intensive subset of Agriculture that deals with vegetables, fruits, flowers and landscape plants.

Role and functionality of Department:

• Horticulture provides excellent opportunities in raising income of the farmers even in dry lands.
• Over the years, Horticulture has emerged as one of the potential enterprise in accelerating the growth of economy.
• A significant shift towards Horticulture is evident in the district with an increase in area and production by adopting intercropping, conversion of fallow and agriculture lands to horticulture crops