Question
What do you understand by market gardening and horticulture?
Solution
Market gardening and horticulture:
(i)It specialise in the cultivation of high value crops such as vegetables, fruits and flowers, solely for the urban markets.
(ii)Farms are small and are located where there are good transportation links with the urban centre where high income group of consumers is located.
(i)It specialise in the cultivation of high value crops such as vegetables, fruits and flowers, solely for the urban markets.
(ii)Farms are small and are located where there are good transportation links with the urban centre where high income group of consumers is located.
(iii)It is both labour and capital intensive and lays emphasis on the use of irrigation, HYV seeds, fertilisers, insecticides, greenhouses and artificial heating in colder regions.
