Does horticulture belong to agriculture or forestry?

Horticulture is not a major of agriculture and forestry, but a major of plant production.

Horticulture majors train senior scientific and technological talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills of biology and horticulture, and can engage in horticultural science-related technology and design, promotion and development, operation and management, teaching and research in agriculture, commerce, landscape management and other fields and departments.

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1, Prospect of Horticulture Specialty

Based on biology, this major studies the theory and technology of breeding, cultivation and physiology of fruit trees and vegetables. Compared with other agricultural industries, horticultural industry has higher labor intensity, technology intensity and capital intensity, and has attractive development prospects in industrial development, optimizing agricultural industrial structure and enhancing the competitiveness of agricultural products in the international market.

2. Characteristics of horticulture specialty

To solve the huge demand of sustainable development of horticultural industry, we should emphasize the cultivation of students' basic skills, pay attention to the application of biotechnology and information technology in the breeding of new horticultural varieties and the production of high-quality and safe products, strengthen the tourism and ecological functions of horticultural industry, integrate theory with practice, and comprehensively improve students' practical innovation ability and management ability.

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