Department of Horticulture

Department of Horticulture is a unique department of attributes and legacy which passes on the knowledge, science and skill of horticultural crop production to the students. Since its reorganization as an academic department in 1996, the department has been focusing on the production of qualified horticulturists who are ready for the job market or advanced learning. It is the department with laboratory facilities for plant tissue culture in Yezin Agricultural University. Under the assistance of YAU-JICA TCP, Department of Horticulture acquired many modern laboratory facility and equipment that empower research capacity of both the department and the students.

Vision

• Horticulture as a major discipline for food and nutritional security, and horticulturists as safe and healthy food producers and nature maintainers.

Mission

• To produce the graduates who are well equipped with theoretical and technical expertise
• To provide production technology of clean horticultural crops of high nutritive and economic value
• To preserve natural environment and enhance ecological community

Functions

• Teaching
• Research
• Extension

1. Teaching

Horticulture subject, with a credit system, was started to offer for first year student as of 2017-18 academic years. The department offers the following subjects for second year, third year and fourth year students:

1. Vegetable science
2. Fruit science
3. Floriculture
4. Postharvest physiology and technology
5. Food science
6. Plant tissue culture
7. Laboratory design and management
8. Basic molecular biology

Undergraduate Courses (B.Agr.Sc) 

No.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit	C/S	Semester
1	HSC – 101	Fundamentals of Horticulture	2	C	3
2	HSC – 102	Plant Propagation	3	C/S	5
3	HSC – 103	Introduction to Tropical Horticulture	2	S	4
4	HSC – 104	Vegetable Science	3	C/S	6
5	HSC – 105	Fruit Science	3	C/S	6
6	HSC – 106	Floriculture	3	C/S	7
7	HSC – 107	Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops	3	C/S	7
8	HSC – 108	Nursery Management and Production	3	C/S	8
9	HSC – 109	Protected Horticulture	3	C/S	8
10	HSC – 110	Horticultural Seed Production	3	C	9
11	HSC – 111	Amenity Horticulture (Landscaping)	3	C	9
12	HSC – 112	Organic and Sustainable Horticulture	3	C	9
13	HSC – 131	Scientific Writing	1	C	9
14	HSC – 132	Presentation Skill	1	C	6,7,8
15	HSC – 133	Special Research Group	8	C	6,7,8
16	HSC – 134	Special Field Assignment	1	C	6,7,8
17	HSC – 135	General Agriculture	3	C	9
18	HSC – 136	Internship	7	C	9
19	HSC-4110	Plant Tissue Culture	3	C	10
20	HSC-4111	Laboratory Design and Management	3
21	HSC-4112	Basic Molecular Biology	3

Graduate Courses

Postgraduate Diploma

No.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit
1	DH-111	Plant Growth Regulators in Horticulture	3
2	DH-112	Tissue Culture Techniques in Horticulture	3
3	DH-113	Tropical Fruit Science	2
4	DH-114	Production of Nursery Plants	2
5	DH-121	Reproductive Physiology of Horticultural Crops	3
6	DH-122	Commercial Vegetable Production	3
7	DH-123	Vegetable Seed Production	3
8	DH-124	Landscape Design	2
9	DH-125	Flower Production	2
10	DH-129	Seminar	1
11	DH-130	Diploma Research and Dissertation	8

M.Agr.Sc

No.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit
1	HSC – 601	Plant Growth Regulators in Horticulture	3
2	HSC – 602	Advanced Plant Propagation	3
3	HSC – 603	Fruit Science	3
4	HSC – 604	Commercial Vegetable Production	3
5	HSC – 605	Commercial Floriculture	3
6	HSC – 606	Reproductive Physiology of Horticultural Crops	3
7	HSC – 607	Orchidology	3
8	HSC – 608	Post-harvest Physiology of Horticultural Crops	3
9	HSC – 609	Improvement of Horticultural Crops	3
10	HSC – 671	Special Problem	2
11	HSC – 681	Seminar	1
12	HSC – 699	Master’s Research	16

Ph.D.

No.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit
1	HSC-711	Plant tissue culture development and biotechnology
2	HSC-712	Postharvest technology of horticultural crops
3	HSC-713	Ecophysiology of horticultural crops
4	HSC-721	Advanced seed physiology of horticultural crops
5	HSC-722	Advanced molecular marker technology and mapping

Research program

Scope of research in the Department of Horticulture covers Production and Management, Physiology, Postharvest Technology, Biodiversity and Germplasm Conservation, Plant Tissue Culture, and Landscape Study and Survey. Special Research Project of the graduating undergrad students, Thesis Research of graduate students, departmental research under government financial support as well as in collaboration with private companies and non-governmental organizations are carried out as the major research activities of Department of Horticulture.

Department of Horticulture has its major activities in

• the collection of indigenous vegetables, indigenous orchids, indoor plants and ornamentals, fruit trees, horticultural crop seeds and Myanmar mango varieties from different parts of Myanmar
• the study of cultural practices of selected crops, on-farm horticultural crop production of local growers
• the presentation and report of crop study trip, literature reviewing on selected topics and experimental findings

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