Your roadmap · आपका रोडमैप
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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Work planकार्य योजनाStep by step with your guide / trainer.
Milestone 1: Planning and Business PlanMilestone 2: Nursery ManagementMilestone 3: PropagationMilestone 4: Commercial Crop ProductionMilestone 5: Marketing and EconomicsMilestone 6: Report and Viva
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File, report & vivaफ़ाइल, रिपोर्ट और वाइवाPractical file / report checked, mock viva before the final one.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
सिलेबस · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 6 chapters · 16 topics
01Milestone 1: Planning and Business Plan
3 टॉपिक+
- Market survey
- Choice of plants and crops
- Business plan and nursery registration
02Milestone 2: Nursery Management
3 टॉपिक+
- Nursery layout and media
- Protray seedling production
- Mother plant block
03Milestone 3: Propagation
3 टॉपिक+
- Grafting and budding
- Layering and cuttings
- Hardening of plants
04Milestone 4: Commercial Crop Production
3 टॉपिक+
- Vegetable or flower crop under open or protected conditions
- Drip and fertigation
- Plant protection
05Milestone 5: Marketing and Economics
2 टॉपिक+
- Sales and records
- Cost, returns and B:C ratio
06Milestone 6: Report and Viva
2 टॉपिक+
- ELP report
- Presentation and viva
About this course
आप यह कर पाएँगे
- Raise and manage a commercial nursery of fruit, vegetable and flower plants
- Propagate plants by grafting, budding, layering and cuttings
- Raise a commercial horticultural crop (vegetables or flowers) as a business
- Use protrays, polyhouse and drip-fertigation in production
- Market plants and produce and prepare the economics
- Write the ELP report and present it in the viva
यह किसके लिए है
- B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture students of Semester 8 (ICAR 5th Deans' Committee syllabus)
- Students of agriculture colleges affiliated to UP state universities and agricultural universities
- Students planning a nursery or commercial horticulture enterprise
आपको क्या चाहिए
- Horticulture courses of earlier semesters
- Record book and budding knife
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Student login →
सवाल
Which syllabus does this follow?
The course follows the ICAR 5th Deans' Committee B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture syllabus used by UP agricultural universities (CSAUAT Kanpur, ANDUAT Ayodhya, SVPUAT Meerut, BUAT Banda) and agriculture colleges of UP state universities. Where your own university syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.
Will I learn grafting?
Yes. Veneer, wedge and soft-wood grafting and budding are practised by each student.
Is marketing included?
Yes. Students sell plants and produce and keep sales records.
How is it evaluated?
Through propagation success, crop performance, records, report and viva.
