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What is nursery and stock dealer registration?
This exists to support the protection of Florida's vast plant industries, native plant life, and the public through the exclusion, detection, eradication and control of injurious plant pests and diseases
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What is sustainability?
Practice of conserving natural resources for the use of future generations
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What is botany?
is the study of plants and their processes
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What is Nematode free export certification?
This exists to regulate shipping of plant products to prevent spread of nematodes.
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What is drip irrigation?
This has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to enter roots of plants slowly
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What is pomology?
This includes the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of fruit and nut crops
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What is aquatic plant permit?
This exists to curtail the spread of highly invasive species and regulate movement of plants.
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What is composting?
This process recycles various organic materials otherwise regarded as waste products and produces a soil conditioner.
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What is olericulture?
This includes the planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of vegetable crops
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What is phytosanitary certificate?
This is used to attest plants, plant products, or other related articles meet import requirements. This official documentation is usually created by the country from where the plant was grown or processed.
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What is IPM?
This is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices
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What is arboriculture?
is a segment of the horticulture industry that deals with the care of trees
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What is the Florida, Fish, and Wildlife Commission?
What government entity issues aquatic plant permit?
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What is Allelopathy, live barriers, natural/ organic pesticides, using land contours, etc.
Give two examples of IPM.
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What is floriculture?
Producing, transporting, and using flowering foliage plants
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What is is the culture of plants and fungi for food, comfort, and beautification
Define horticulture. (must be thorough answer!)
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