AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL EQUIPMENT & MATERIALS IN DOHA QATAR

Agricultural & Horticultural Equipment & Materials Description: Horticulture vs Agriculture: What do you think of when you consider the words horticulture and agriculture? Perhaps, you see horticulture as small-scale, like gardening, and see agriculture as large-scale, like farming. Generally speaking, this assumption is somewhat true, but greater differences exist. Horticulture can actually be classified as a field under the umbrella of agricultural science. That being said, they both use many of the same techniques for crop cultivation and overlap with crop and turf sciences. Horticultural science includes the research, study and practice of plant cultivation, plant propagation, plant breeding, production of crops and plant physiology. The plants focused on are mainlyvegetables, trees, flowers, turf, shrubs, fruits and nuts. The key difference is that horticultural products have to both look good and taste good! For example, if you are enjoying a fresh, juicy tomato on a sandwich—a horticulturist grew it. If you are dipping Frenchfries into ketchup, a crop science graduate running an agricultural farm grew it. Horticulture is Awesome! There are 3 separate areas of Horticulture that you might not be aware of: Pomology – The planting, harvesting, processing, storing and marketing of fruit and nut crops, Olericulture – The same as Pomology, but for vegetable crops, And Ornamental Horticulture. As the world’s population continues to expand, traditional food production is under pressure from a changing climate as well as dwindling land and w... Read More...

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