Horticulture

Horticulture is a diverse and important industry that spans a variety of subjects from flower producing, landscape design, pest biology, garden history to crop mechanisation. It is a very important industry crucial to shaping the quality of life around the world. Horticulturists need a high degree of skill and knowledge.

The industry has undergone many changes, greater specialisation being one and underpinning this change has been the ongoing application of engineering technology.

 They are responsible for the cultivation of an extensive and diverse range of vegetables, fruit and salad crops that contribute to the quality of our diet and the flowers, bulbs, shrubs and trees that enrich our environment.   

IAgrE seeks to promote horticultural engineering as a worthwhile and rewarding career and aims to do this by:  

• promoting horticultural engineering within the wider engineering profession
• making the horticultural industry more aware of the importance of the application of engineering to its viability and future development
• improving communications within horticultural engineering
• helping horticultural engineers in the development of their careers
• promoting horticultural engineering as a worthwhile and rewarding career 

Agricultural engineers working in horticulture can be involved in:

• Nurseries
• Environmental control
• Crop processing
• Harvesting