Horticulture one calls the intensive, at high technical expenditure and under particularly high manpower utilization operated form of the agriculture. The horticulture developed gradually from the private supply (the history of the garden is in detail in the article garden described).

A large number of plant types is cultivated by acquisition-moderate horticulture enterprises and private gardners. Breeding new plants and culture places is partly operated by particulars, in the world-wide group working horticulture companies. In the flower and ornamental plant breeding German young plant enterprises are world market leaders.

The horticulture obtains 10% of the total economic activity of the entire agriculture in Germany on approximately 1% of the agricultural effective area. The house and allotment surface exceeds the cultivated area of the acquisition horticulture in Germany around a Vielfaches.In the Netherlands constitutes the horticulture - there agri business mentioned - and the pending industries and services approx. 18% of the gross national product. Different universities offer the course of studies to horticulture.

Urbaner horticulture with its specific problems wins due to the increasing urbanisation as well as the problems associated with it world-wide increasingly in meaning.

Acquisition horticulture

One differentiates the following sections with respect to the German acquisition horticulture today:

• Production horticulture:
  • Flower and building of ornamental plants
  • Nursery garden
  • Fruit-growing
  • Staudenbau
  • Vegetable growing inclusive gardening special cultures (welfare plant, spice plant and cultivation of mushroom)
• Handels and service horticulture:
  • gardening retail trade (garden specialist shop, flower shop, garden center, seed actions) and wholesale
  • Garden landscape and sports field construction
  • Cemetery market garden

In former times independent section "“building of seeds and plant breeding"” was integrated in the meantime into the individual production horticulture sections. The Floristik is ranked among the handicraft.

Classification of the horticulture into the agriculture

To what extent the horticulture with its sections can generally be ranked among the agriculture or is, is discussable. With security the field vegetable growing of the agriculture is still earliest intimate. Also nursery gardens rank due to the production procedures and the technique employment among the sections, which the agriculture close.

In the range of the and above all the section flower and building of ornamental plants meaning according to the free market in Germany already different, non-agricultural aspects come to the validity, as e.g. the use of greenhouses or differently constituted technique employment as fertilization computers, climatic computers or sterilization plants in closed culture systems. "“Urban Horticulture"” or the as well as marketing already mentioned and global trade (trend to the "“experience garden center"”) set rather accents toward environmental or service horticulture. The garden and landscape gardening are likewise part of the building of service gardens and co-operate closely with the planerischen sections of the vocational field landscape architecture (free space and green area planning).

Related links

• The horticulture net (g-net) - portal of the central association horticulture and its federations
• T A G - Top training horticulture - extensive information about training possibilities in the horticulture
• Bundesgartenschau.de - homepage of the German Bundesgartenschau company
• Education place horticulture green mountain
• Office for federal sort - permission and protection of planting places
• gabot.de - portal and search machine side for the horticulture
• Gartentechnik.de - extensive link collection about horticulture
• Federal Association of Labor for garden culture and landscape conservation - controlling body of the horticulture associations in Germany]

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