Modern Nursery Management

Earlier, nursery raising was done by unskilled people simply through their experience. But now, with the advent of new technology in Horticulture, Modern Nursery Management is a skill oriented business, it has been undertaken scientifically and technically and can give promising returns. As there a derth of easy understandable and concise matter on Nursery Management, this book on Modern Nursery Management has been framed by the authors. Authors have tried completely to explain the various types of nursery and how a new comer in the nursery raising business can get the nursery registered in new era of hi-tech horticulture and IPR. This book provides information concerning site selection methods of nursery; various propagation materials which can be used including media, containers, tools, accessories, chemicals etc; nursery management; various methods of plant propagation; seedling management, looking into the need of making nursery management as a business, elaborated chapters on strategies for nursery business has been added.

1. Introduction and Classification of Nursery
2. Registration of Nursery and Nursery Act
3. Nursery Site Selection Method and Criteria
4. Establishment of a Nursery
5. Propagation Materials
6. Plant Growing Containers
7. Fumigation Practices of Nursery
8. Tools and Accessories for Nursery
9. Structures for Model Nursery
10. Chemical for Nursery Use
11. Use of Hormones for Plant Propagation
12. Management of Nursery Plants
13. Methods of Propagation
14. Sexual (Seed) Propagation
15. Vegetative Propagation
16. Raising Plants from Seed
17. Potting and Repotting
18. Polybag Nursery
19. Plug Tray Nursery
20. Ornamental Plants Nursery
21. Marketing Management of Nursery Plants
22. Start a Nursery Business
23. Strategies for Nursery Business
24. Economics of Small Scale Nursery
25. Glossary
26. References
27. Subject Index