Horticulture and truck farming

Horticulture and truck farming

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Horticulture and Truck Farming
Presented
By
bhUPENBARMAN
A H MIAH

21. Types of Market Gardening :
Two types of market gardening
1.Horticulture
2.Truck Farming

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Characteristics of Horticulture
Production and Marketing

High input - high value

Labor intensive

Management intensive

Capital intensive - including land

Perishable products - fast moving supply chains determine quality
Large number of horticultural “commodities” - specialty crops
Annual and perennial cropping systems

Relatively little contracting - cash markets dominate - fewer risk
management tools

25. "truck farming, horticultural practice of
growing one or more vegetable crops
on a large scale for shipment to distant
markets. It is usually less intensive and
diversified than market gardening. At
first this type of farming depended
entirely on local or regional markets."

26. Fig; Truck Farming