Floriculture & Landscaping

JOB ROLE

Floral Designer; designs, cuts, and arranges live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage. confers with clients regarding price and type of arrangement desired and the date, time, and place of delivery. Plans arrangement according to client's requirements, utilizing knowledge of design and properties of materials, or select appropriate standard design pattern. Waters plants, and cut, condition, and clean flowers and foliage for storage. Selects flora and foliage for arrangements, working with numerous combinations to synthesize and develop new creations. Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers. Wraps and price completed arrangements. Trims material and arranges bouquets, wreaths, terrariums, and other items using trimmers, shapers, wire, pins, floral tape, foam, and other materials. Performs office and retail service duties such as keeping financial records, serving customers, answering telephones, selling giftware items and receiving payment. Informs customers about the care, maintenance, and handling of various flowers and foliage, indoor plants, and other items. Decorates or supervises the decoration of buildings, halls, churches, or other facilities for parties, weddings and other occasions.

Floriculturist- (Open Cultivation); performs the duties of a flower crop cultivator in the open field

Floriculturist- (Protected Cultivation); performs the duties of a flower crop cultivator in the green houses.

Seed Grower/Quality Seed Grower; propagates and grows horticultural-specialty products and crops, such as seeds, bulbs, rootstocks, sod, ornamental plants, and cut flowers: Plans acreage utilization and work schedules, according to knowledge of crop culture, climate and market conditions, seed, bulb, or rootstock availability, and employable work force and machinery. Attaches farm implements, such as disk and fertilizer spreader, to tractor and drives tractor in fields to till soil and plant and cultivate crop. Inspects fields periodically to ascertain nutrient deficiencies, detect insect, disease, and pest infestations, and identify foreign-plant growth, and selects, purchases, and schedules materials, such as fertilizers and herbicides, to ensure quality control. Hires field workers; assigns their duties according to scheduled activities, such as planting, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting; and oversees their activities. Maintains personnel and production records. Arranges with customers for sale of crop. May oversee activities, such as product cleaning, grading, and packaging. May provide customer services, such as planning and building planters, walls, and patios, and planting and caring for landscape and display arrangements. May bud or graft scion stock on plantings to alter growth characteristics. May develop new variations of species specialty to produce crops with specialized market appeal. May cultivate out-of-season seedlings and crops, using greenhouse. May cultivate cover crop, such as hay or rye, in rotation with horticultural specialty to rejuvenate soil. May drive and operate self-propelled harvesting machine. May lubricate, adjust, and make minor repairs on farm machinery and equipment

Trades Summery: 

During the one-year duration of ͞Floriculture & Landscaping͟ trade, a candidate is trained on Professional Skill, Professional Knowledge and Employability Skill. In addition to this, a candidate is entrusted to undertake project work, extracurricular activities and on-the-job training to build up confidence. The broad components covered related to the trade are categorized in two semesters each of six months duration. The semester wise course coverage is categorized as below:

1 st Semester – In the first semester trainees learns about agro-meteorology, importance of different elements of weather and climate of agriculture. Soil properties, soil management, formation of soil moisture and its conservation. Role of organic matter in soil and its recycling water and their management. Soil fertility, fertilizers, manures and management of soil fertility & productivity. Fundamentals of floriculture, nursery and seed production. Practicing simple and tongue layering, ground layering, air layering or goo tee. Planting materials and their cultivation practices etc.

2 nd Semester – In the second semester trainee learns about identification and study important commercial varieties of the flowering crops. Preparation of ground and beds for planting specific flower crops. Layout of plots and gardens, planning for home gardens, landscape gardens. Preparation and execution of landscape plants maintenance of gardens and lawns. Accessories and containers for flower arrangements. Floral arrangement preparation of floral ornaments bouquets etc. Preparation of bottle gardens, terrarium etc. Protected cultivation of flowers. Identifications and study of poly house, shed net house, mulching. Familiarization with species of honey bees and different types of colony, organization and bee boxes.

• Identify metrological instruments and understand the diversity within the profession of Floriculture
• Identify Plant morphology, different plant varieties and plant families
• Identify different Soil types, Methods of soil sampling and collection, detection on physical and chemical properties of soil, Interpret soil test reports for proper rectification
• Measure Soil fertility and apply soil fertility management for improvement of fertility of soil
• Apply integrated nutrient Management system (INMS) in the field.
• Identify and select different propagation methods, Handling of seed, bulbs, cut flowers, Nursery plants, pot plants.
• Identify and apply method of vegetative propagation and its management.
• Identify Commercial Flowers and their packaging
• Identify the diseases and apply the pesticide as per requirement
• Plan and execute Survey for landscaping and various types of indoor gardening
• Carry out Protected cultivation of flower
• Revision, Project work and Examination
   

GENERIC LEARNING OUTCOME

• 1. Apply safe working practices.
• 2. Comply with environment regulation and housekeeping.
• 3. Assist in exigencies and carry out elementary first-aid during emergencies.
• 4. Work in a team, understand and practice soft skills, technical English to communicate with required clarity.
• 5. Explain energy conservation, global warming and pollution and contribute in day-today work by optimally using available resources.
• 6. Explain personnel finance, entrepreneurship and manage/organize related task in day-to-day work for personal & societal growth. 

SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOME

SEMESTER-I

• 7. Identify metrological instruments and understand the diversity within the profession of Floriculture.
• 8. Identify Plant morphology, different plant varieties and plant families.
• 9. Identify different Soil types, Methods of soil sampling and collection, detection on physical and chemical properties of soil, Interpret soil test reports for proper rectification.
• 10. Measure Soil fertility and apply soil fertility management for improvement of fertility of soil.
• 11. Apply integrated nutrient Management system (INMS) in the field.
• 12. Identify and select different propagation methods, Handling of seed, bulbs, cut flowers, Nursery plants, pot plants.
• 13. Identify and apply method of vegetative propagation and its management.

SEMESTER-II

• 14. Identify Commercial Flowers and their packaging.
• 15. Identify the diseases and apply the pesticide as per requirement.
• 16. Plan and execute Survey for landscaping and various types of indoor gardening.
• 17. Carry out Protected cultivation of flower.