Skills & competences

Description

Horticulture is the study of horticultural technology and management, floriculture, greenhouse methods, nursery management, landscape gardening etc.
Programmes and qualifications with the following main content are classified here:
Floriculture
Gardening
Green keeping
Horticultural techniques
Nursery management
Turf cultivation

=== Inclusions
The laying out and construction of urban and domestic parks and gardens is included here.
Gardening programmes combining floriculture and growing vegetables are included here.

=== Exclusions
Study of growing edible crops (such as wheat, rice, fruit, vegetables etc,) is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0811 'Crop and livestock production'.
Study of soil science, soil fertility and irrigation techniques is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0811 'Crop and livestock production'.
Study of National park management is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0522 'Natural environments and wildlife'.
Study of Landscape architecture is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0731 'Architecture and town planning'.