Tropical & Subtropical Fruits

Pomology

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 word means fruits, logos- study.

• Basic Pomology: Study of basic aspects of fruit production like training, water management, use of PGR’s.
• Commercial Pomology: It is concerned with commercial production of fruits.
• Systematic Pomology: It may be concerned with classification and nomenclature like kingdom, order, class, genus and species.