Explanation

Horticulture cultivates fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. It involves intensive production on smaller areas compared to field crop agriculture.

Branches: pomology (fruits), olericulture (vegetables), floriculture (flowers), landscape horticulture. Apiculture is beekeeping; aquaculture is fish farming; sericulture is silk production.

Horticultural crops are high-value and often perishable, requiring careful handling and marketing.