Floriculture is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowers and ornamental plants for floral industry and for garden. In Floriculture the accurate forecasting of the yield and their estimation from the raw data are playing the important role in the planning of various aspects of Horticulture production. In most cases, such counting procedure is performed manually, whi...

Floriculture and Landscape management is a Curricular Unit (CU) that makes part of the BSc Degree course in Crops Livestock Engineering (DCLE) at Coimbra Agriculture School, belonging to Polytechnic Institute Coimbra, Portugal. It an important subject flower industry as it occupies third place agricultural production Portugal, after viticulture arable crops. Teaching floriculture challenging st...

The floriculture industry faces many challenges including increasing energy and input prices, seasonality of its products and international competition. To analyze floriculture demand, we estimate and use simulation analysis to decompose it into market penetration and buying frequency. Understanding what are the factors that influence non-buyers of floral products to become buyers, and the fact...

In tissue culture, high production cost of the products restricts their reach. Though tissue culture is a major strength in floriculture it is marred by pricing issues. Hence, we developed a complete regeneration low cost micropropagation protocol for an economically important floriculture crop, carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.). Successful regeneration of carnation from nodal explants on co...

The basic objective of this paper is to measure and compare the profitability of investments made by the small and marginal farmers of the state of West Bengal in floriculture shifting from the traditional cultivation of paddy. A comparison of IRR is made to establish the fact that cultivation of flowers yield higher returns farmers whose land size is so small that viability of paddy cultivatio...

Stress is known to contribute to overall health status. Many individuals in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to be stressed about their employment, income, and health. This study aimed to investigate hair cortisol as a biomarker of chronic stress in settlement communities in Kenya. Hair samples were collected from 108 volunteers from settlement communities in Kenya. An enzyme-linked immunosorben...