Department at a Glance

Under this department we offer courses of Horticulture for the undergraduate degree programme in the faculties of Agriculture. This is a specialized branch of agriculture dealing with Fruit production, vegetable production, landscaping and commercial floriculture, medicinal and aromatic plants and plantation crops. This department mainly concern with land preparation, seeds and sowing, fertilizer management, irrigation scheduling, plant protection, harvesting and threshing, seed production and their processing. Department of Horticulture, in the Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Agriculture, Talsande is a huge department, carrying out teaching activities. The staffs are actively involved in conducting teaching, on-farm activities, educational tours, which make the students be well versed with the subject.