CERTIFICATE IN NURSERY TECHNIQUES AND PROPAGATION OF HORTICULTURE PLANTS
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION
10th Pass
DURATION: 6 MONTHS
- Propagation: need and potentialities, sexual and asexual methods of propagation and their advantages and disadvantages
- Nursery tools and implements
- Methods of vegetative propagation: cutting and layering techniques
- Methods of vegetative propagation: budding techniques
- Factors influencing rooting of cuttings and layering
- Use of growth regulators in propagation
- Techniques of propagation through specialized organs; corms, runner, suckers etc.
- Selection and maintenance of mother trees, collection of scion wood sticks, bud-wood certification and nursery registration Act
- Propagation structures: mist chamber, greenhouse, polyhouses and hardening chamber
- Micro – propagation and hardening of plants in nurseries
- Media for propagation of plants in nursery beds and mist chambers
- Preparation of nursery beds and sowing of seeds
- Preparation and application of plant growth regulator solutions for seed germination and vegetative propagation
- Seed treatments for breaking seed dormancy and inducing vigorous seedling growth
- Seed stratification
- Preparation of different types of cuttings, layering, grafting and budding
- Maintenance of nursery records
- Application of plant protection chemicals in the nursery
- Uprooting/digging, labelling and packing of nursery plants
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