Employability Skills in Horticulture

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Employability Skills in Horticulture

• Objective Describe skills needed for employment
  and careers in the horticulture industry.

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What is Horticulture?

• Horticulture comes from the Latin words hortus
  which means garden and cultorum which means
  cultivation.
• Horticulture is the cultivation, processing and
  marketing of flowers, ornamental plants,
  vegetables, fruits and nuts.

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Divisions of Horticulture

• Fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants
• Floriculture
• Landscape and nursery industry
• Olericulture
• Pomology

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Floriculture

• Floriculture is the science and practice of
  growing, harvesting, storing, designing, and
  marketing flowering plants.

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Landscape and Nursery

• Landscape and nursery industry is the science and
  practice of propagation, growing, planting,
  maintaining and using grasses, annuals, shrubs
  and trees.

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Olericulture

• Olericulture is the science and practice of
  growing, harvesting, storing, processing and
  marketing vegetables.

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Pomology

• Pomology is the science and practice of growing,
  harvesting, storing, processing and marketing
  tree grown fruits.

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Importance of Horticulture

• Horticulture has three main areas of importance.
• Economic
• Aesthetic
• Environmental

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Economic Importance

• The horticulture industry puts over 25 billion
  dollars into the U.S. economy annually.
• Provides jobs
• Produces food (fruits, vegetables, nuts)
• Increases value of homes through landscaping

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Aesthetic value (appearance)

• Improves the appearance of homes and buildings
  through landscaping
• Improves the appearance of land from fruit,
  vegetable and ornamental crops grown.

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Environmental

• Includes health and comfort
• cleans air
• prevents erosion
• provides shade
• nutrition

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What are some jobs in horticulture?
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Greenhouse Employee

• Grows vegetables and flowers including
• cut flowers
• bedding plants
• potted plants
• hanging baskets
• Performs both sexual and asexual propagation of
  plants

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Nursery Employee

• Grows seedlings and plants for landscaping,
  replanting in forests, or producing fruit

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Garden Center Employee

• Cares for plants
• moves plants and supplies
• arranges and displays plants and supplies
• sells plants and supplies

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Grounds Maintenance Employee

• Cares for the land area and plants that surround
  a business, school, church, industry or other
  public or private places that have lawns and
  plants that have to be maintained

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Golf Course Employee

• Responsible for maintenance of
• golf course including turfgrass
• irrigation and drainage
• sand trap
• trees and shrubs
• buildings and equipment

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Park Employee

• Maintains plants, grounds, buildings, facilities,
  equipment and driveways in national, state, city
  or privately owned parks

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What qualifications do I need to work in the
horticulture industry?
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Skills

• Skills vary from unskilled to highly skilled
  depending on the career in horticulture. A
  materials handler needs few skills, but an
  inspector needs many skills to check for quality,
  for insects or diseases or for following
  governmental rules.

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Personal Interests and Qualifications

• Before seeking a job one must consider
• Work inside or outside or a combination
• Work in a group or alone
• Work with people or plants
• Work at routine tasks or varying jobs
• Physical strength to do the job

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Educational Qualifications

• Educational qualifications vary depending on the
  careers
• High school graduate or less for unskilled
  entry-level jobs
• Technical degree for skilled jobs
• Bachelors, masters or doctorate degree for most
  professional areas because of required licenses,
  paperwork, research and/or teaching

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Career Outlook

• Outlook for the horticulture industry is expected
  to grow because of the increase in population and
  new home construction.

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