Title Award: Certificate in Horticulture
Background

These programmes will be offered under the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries via the Department of Agriculture. The programme was developed with the similar criterion of what other comparator institutions in Australia/New Zealand are offering.   This programme is developed to offer an effective solution for organizations facing shortage of skilled professionals to undertake Landscaping and Horticultural work. Horticulture is a diverse industry which encompasses all things green. From greenhouses, home landscaping and floral shops to football fields, golf courses, forests and town/city. The horticulture industry offers a variety of opportunities.

Entry Requirements 

1. A pass in Fiji Sixth Form Examination

2. However, mature age persons with relevant experience will also be considered.

Code

HOR 401

Unit Name

Horticulture: Fruits and Vegetables Production1

Credit

7

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 120 = 210

This course is designed to provide students with tools needed to assess the potential for diversifying crop production with various horticultural crops. It will provide information on basic types of Horticultural crops, its husbandry techniques and crop production aspects.

Prescribed Text:

• Damrosch, B. (2008). The garden primer. (2nd ed). New York: Workman.

• Handbook of Horticulture by K.L. Chadha (ICAR Publication)
• Vegetables for the Tropical Region byNath, Prem and Sundari(ICAR Publication)
• Fruit Production Technology by P.K. Yadav
• Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops by K.P. Sudheer K.V. Peter (ed.)V. Indira

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

HOR 402

Unit Name

Green House Management I

Credit

6

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 90 = 180

Greenhouses are widely used to grow and protect vegetables around the world.  For certain vegetable crops, greenhouses present several advantages with respect to field production.  In greenhouses, crops lead to greater yields, higher quality, and the harvest season is extended per unit of cropped area.This unit aims at integrating an understanding of basic plant physiological mechanisms into the decision making process involved in the greenhouse designs, coverings, heating, cooling and watering systems. Basically the unit targets to deliver the understanding of day to day management of greenhouse operations.

Prescribed Text:

• Greenhouse Operation and Management, Paul V. Nelson, Prentice Hall, Sixth Edition - 2003, 0-13-010577-5

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

HOR 403

Unit Name

Land Scape Mechanics and Design I

Credit

6

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 90 = 180

This unit seeks to introduce and develop entry-level skills and experiences associated with the Horticulture and Floriculture industries. Students will obtain skills in the area of horticulture, landscape design, landscape maintenance and floriculture.

Prescribed Text:

• Landscape Gardening and Design with Plants by S.K. Bhattacharjee
• Tropical Garden Plants in Colour by T.K. Bose
• Garden Plants In Colour: Trees- Tropical And Subtropical by T.K. Bose, P. Pal, B. Chowdhury, and S.P. Sharma (eds)

• Floriculture Designs and Merchandising, Delmar Publishers, 1995.

• Western Garden Book, Sunset Publishing, 1998.

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

HOR 404

Unit Name

Plant Propagation and Hybridization I

Credit

7

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 120 = 210

The unit seeks to demonstrate plant identification and selection for local landscape applications, principles of landscape planning, design, construction, and maintenance and principles and skills of floral design.

Prescribed Text:

• Hartmann and Kester’s Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices, Hartman, Hudson T., et al., Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2002.

• Propagation of Horticultural Crops by B.L. Markose, K.V. Peter (ed.), S. Rajan
• Propagation of Horticultural Crops by B.L. Markose, K.V. Peter (ed.), S. Rajan

• Breeding of Horticultural Crops: Principles and Practices by N. Kumar

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

HOR 405

Unit Name

Introduction to Hydroponics

Credit

7

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 90 = 180

Definition, Scope of Hydroponics, establishing a hydroponics system.  Nutrition and nutrient solutions of hydroponic crops.  Matching solutions to crop requirements, types of hydroponic systems, problems in hydroponics, electronegativity metres, cost and benefits of hydroponic systems.

Prescribed Text:

• Hartmann and Kester’s Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices, Hartman, Hudson T., et al., Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2002.

• Nursery Raising by S.N. Das

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

HOR 406

Unit Name

Introductory Floriculture

Credit

7

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 120 = 210

This unit seeks to introduce and develop entry-level skills and experiences associated with the Floriculture industries. It looks at cut flowers, post harvest handling of flowers.  Indoor and outdoor plants husbandry requirements of different types of flowers.  Ornamentals. Floral arrangements.  Basic tools of floral design.  Mediums used for different types of flowers.OHS and Bio security issues in floriculture.

Prescribed Text:

• Introduction to Horticulture (Science and Technology), Interstate Publishers, 1997.
• Floriculture Designs and Merchandising, Delmar Publishers, 1995.

• Floriculture: From Greenhouse Production to Floral Design by Dianne A. , NolandRonald,  J. Biondo
• Complete Home Gardening by S.C. Dey

• Western Garden Book, Sunset Publishing, 1998.

Unit Coordinator:

Tanay Joshi

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Code

ENT 401

Unit Name

Horticultural Pest Management

Credit

6

Campus:

Koronivia

Legalega Nadi

Lautoka

Ba

Nasinu

Offered:

Summester

Prerequisites:

Contact Hours: 90 + 90 = 180

This course allows students to be able to know the definition of pest, type of animal pests: insect, nematode, mite, mollusks and vertebrate pests, type of diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, virus and spiroplasmas, common pests, diseases and weeds of horticultural crops.  Characters of different categories of crop pests. Impact of different categories of pests.

IPM & IDM: definition and methods.  Definition of pesticides. Types of pesticides: insecticide, fungicide, bactericide, weedicide. Pesticide formulations, interpretation of labels of pesticides. Biopesticide: botanical and microbial pesticides.  Common natural enemies of insect pests of horticultural crops: Predator, parasitoid and pathogen.  Important Plant protection equipments, features and functions of duster and sprayer.  Handling precautions, waiting period.  Insecticide residues and their management.   Common insect pollinators of horticultural crops and their conservation.

Prescribed Text:

• Management of Insect Pests of Horticultural Crops
  H.C.L. Gupta, O.P. Ameta, V.K. Chechani
• Encyclopedia of Plant Diseases in Agriculture & Horticulture (In 4 Volumes) by F.D. Heald 
• Quality Management in Horticulture by A.B. Sharangi (ed.)S.K. Acharya (ed.)

Unit Coordinator:

TBA

Continuous Assessment: 100%