Nursery

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Nursery

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Is a place where planting material such as seedings, saplings, cuttings are raised and propagated and multiplied under favourable conditions for transplanting in prepared beds The availability of quality and true to type planting material is prerequisite of successful and remunerative ornamental crop production.

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Nursery

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Is an area in which new saplings are raised and nourished until they are ready for sale or transplanting at a permanent place in a field.

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Some character of nursery

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Setting up of a nursery is a long term venture and requires planning and expertise.

Plants are nurtured by providing them with optimum growing conditions to ensure germination.

Nursery saves conseridable time for the raising of the next crop.

Among flower crops, majority of Annuals are propagated by seeds and require a nursery for raising the seedlings.

Herbaceous perennial need a nursery for sowing of seeds and and planting of cuttings for rooting and establishment.

Woody perrenial are grown from seeds for multiplying the rootstock from cuttings, layers and through grafts to perpetuate the same genetic properties.

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Importance of nursery

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It's possible to grow and maintain a large number of plants per unit area.

Small and expensive hybrid seeds can be raised more effectively due to better care and management.

Manipulation of growing conditions for plants become easy.

When seeds are sown in seedbeds , thier germination percentage increase and the vigor of the seedlings also improve.

The management of seedlings can be done in a better way with minimum care, cost and maintenance as a nursery area is small.

Better and uniform crop growth can be obtained in the main field by selecting the vigorous and healthy seedlings.

Off-season sowing of seeds become possible, which ultimately results in fetching more returns.

The seed requirement of nursery raised crops is less as compared to direct seed sowing of the same crop due to better management.

Sowing seeds in nursery allows additional time for doing preparatory tillage in main polt , harvesting of the previous crop can be prolonged if needed.

Management of insects, pests, diseases and weeds is easy in a nursery.

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Location

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A nursery must be located in a pollution free environment away from brick kilns , smoke emitting industries and rough motorised roads as dirt and dust settles on plants, covering the foliage which is not only reduce the photosynthesis efficiency of the plant,but also give them a dull look, it must be ensure a nursery site gets adequate sunlight.however, care must be taken that the plants are protected against sever heat.

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Topography of land

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The topography of land at the nursery must be even ,if it's undulating, it must be levelled.in hilly areas, it must be divided into levelled terraces.

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Soil

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The soil must preferably loam or sandy loam with large quantity of organic matter, The pH of the soil must be near neutral (6.5_7.5), it must have adequate water retention capacity and aeration.

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Water

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The quality of water used in a nursery is important for the growth of plants. Saline, polluted water mustn't be used. It must be ensured adequate water supply for irrigation, besides the nursery must be located near a water source so that there is no scarcity at any time in the course of raising plants.

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Drainage

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The nursery site must have drainage facility and be free from waterlogging, water mustn't stagnate at any time.

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Transportation

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The nursery site must be accessible by road it mustn't be far from potential markets so there is no damage to the seedlings during transportation.

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Labour

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A nursery work is labour intensive the nursery site must have enough number of labors.

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Protection from animals

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The nursery area must be protected by enclosures so as to prevent damage to the plants by stray animals.

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Market needs and size

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Market play an important role in the success of the nursery business, various types of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, agricultural implements, plant growth regulators, polybags, different type of spare parts and other miscellaneous items required in the nursery must be available in the nearby market . The nursery must be located near the city or an area from where people can purchase the plants, Alternatively, a mechanism to explore domestic and international markets must also be worked out for the success of nursery business.