We have been doing agricultural practices since very long. We have a lot of agricultural activities like arboriculture, floriculture, olericulture etc. It is a branch of botany devoted to the study and cultivation of fruits i.e., “POMOLOGY”.
Introduction
What is Pomology? Pomology is a branch of horticulture which deals with various aspects of fruits starting from rising of saplings, growing them properly and providing various intercultural operations. The term pomology is a combination of two Latin words pome-fruits and logos-culture.
Poma’ in Greek means fruits later subsequently transfer in to, “Pome” in Latin means fruits and logos stand for study. Pomology is the science of growing fruits, which divide fruits into groups based on plant morphology and anatomy. It is so important to the production of fruit that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) established a division of pomology in 1886.
Indian Pomology
In India, commercial horticulture has a recent origin (100 years old). Orchards in olden days were planted just for hobby by the kings. Akbar planted more than 1 lakh plants of fruit trees at Dharbanga (in Bihar) named as Lakhbagh as referred in a book called Ain –e –Akbari. Mughals established Mughal gardens.
In Himachal Pradesh Major Bannon and Captain Lee were the first to plant the apple orchard in Kullu valley. Sir Alexander Coutts owned an apple orchard at Mashobra. S. N. Stokes use to grow apples in Kotgarh.
The American Pomological Society The American pomological society is the oldest fruit organization in North America founded by Marshell P. Wilder in 1848 to foster the science and practice of fruit production and variety development.
How to Get Maximum Yield
Pomology is instrumental to the cultivating of fruit, developing new or improved varieties, developing disease-resistant fruit, and discovering new pruning or grafting techniques.
Pomology enhances fruit quality. For example, peaches have been bred that can tolerate colder temperatures, and produce larger and juicy fruits with higher yields.
Pomology Benefits
The Benefits of Banana Farming Banana farms are abundant in Uganda. A large percentage of bananas consumed locally are grown in small-scale. Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) has helped facilitate groups to establish banana farms through strategic training sessions.
In this sessions, they learnt effective techniques for planting and growing bananas, pineapple and citrus. They discussed the best control methods for pest and diseases prevention and control.
They identified other benefits to growing bananas:
- Banana does not require as much attention as other crops.
- They have potential to improve domestic situations.
- They can help with issues of constipation.
Conclusion
Through pomology growing bananas is seen as a huge benefit to communities. Bananas hold culture importance as well as financial and health benefits.
Pomology Institutes
- National Agricultural Research Foundation (N.AG.RE)
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
- Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture
- Institute of Pomology (IOP) , Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
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