A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown until they are ready to be planted elsewhere. There are different types of nurseries depending on factors like the planting material used, irrigation needs, and intended duration. Permanent nurseries are maintained long-term to meet regeneration needs, while temporary nurseries are set up as needed. Nurseries can help with artificial regeneration on degraded sites by providing healthy seedlings adapted to local conditions. They allow for commercial production and introduction of exotic species that do not establish well directly from seed.

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College of Forestry
Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology

2. A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and
grown to usable size.
Nursery is a place where plants are raised for eventual
planting out.
WHAT IS A NURSERY ?

3. Importance of nursery
• For success of artificial regeneration.
• For raising forest plantation in adverse condition.
• Some species do not produce every year
• Some sps. grow very slowly.
• For commercial plantation or for fast growing species
nursery raised planting material is required.
• Planting of nursery grown plants is the surest method
of artificial regeneration on poor and barren site.
• For introduction of exotics tropical pines ,poplar and
eucalyptus.
• Plantation of some species when raised by direct
sowing is not successful then nursery is required.

4. REQUIREMENTS
LOCATION
ASPECT
TOPOGRAPHY DRAINAGE
WATER
SOIL VEGETATION
PROTECTION
LABOUR

5. TYPES OF NURSERY
Irrigation Duration
Types of planting
material
Size of seedlings
Basing upon

6. • Dry nursery-
• Maintained without any irrigation.
• EX- Teak, eucalyptus etc.
• Wet nursery-
• Maintained under irrigated condition throughout the year
mainly in dry season.
• Ex-mangium,bamboo,jamun

7. Temporary nursery-
Maintained for short period and after completion of work it
can be withdrawn from that place.
Advantage-
Usually constructed in newly cleared sites fairly rich in humus
and so, manuring is not required.
Minimum trouble with the weeds, destructive insects and diseases.
Cheap transport of planting stock without any serious damage
or shock.
Disadvantage-
Comparatively costly.
Difficult to supervise.
Proper supervision is not possible as it is made out of away places.
Due to lack of irrigation facility, the growth of seedlings is,
usually slow and heavy mortality.

8. • Permanent nursery-
• Maintained for long period and located in that
areas having good accessibility and good
irrigation facility.
Advantages
• Duration of service life is long and production cost is
reasonable.
• Meet the requirement of more ranges.
• Supervision cost is low and can be easily supervised.
• Easy transport of nursery stocks due to nearness of roads.
• Plants are raised year after year for a long time on same site.
Disadvantage
• Transportation of seedlings is difficult and costlier.
• Establishment cost is high.
• Manuring of beds annually & intensive soil working is
essential.
• Requires large labour forces through out the year which is
difficult to available in agricultural seasons.

9. • Seedling nursery-
• where seedlings are raised for transplanting.
• Eg- chakunda, sissoo, jamun,neem
• Transplant nursery-
• A nursery which has only transplant beds
in which seedlings are transplanted in preparation for forest
planting.
Eg- chandan, mangium,bamboo

10. Seedling nursery
Transplant nursery

11. • Basing upon planting material
• Barren nursery-
• naked rooted plants uprooted and transplanted
in the planting site.
• Eg. Teak ,sissoo ,gambhar

12. • Containerised nursery-
• raised in container like root
trainer and polypot
• Eg- Acacia mangium, Samanea
saman, Azadirechta indica,
Emblica officinalis etc.
• Vegetatively propagated
nursery-
• nursery raised from different
vegetative plant parts.
• Eg. Eucalyptus, bamboo

14. Types of bed
•Seed bed
•Transplanted bed
•Containerised bed
Use of
bed
•Raised bed
•Sunken bed
•Level bed
Level
of bed

15. NURSERY IN HIGH LAND AREAS
In high land area sunken beds are
prefered in nursery.
No boundary support is required.
Depth of bed is 10-30cm.
It is done in water scarcity areas.

17. Nursery in low land area
• In low land area raised beds are prefered
in nursery.
• It is 10-15 cm above ground level with
the support of brick stone, bamoos etc
that prevent edges of bed from
crumbling erosion during rain.
• It is practised in high rainfall area to
prevent the plant from water logging
condition.

19. CONCLUSION
• Artificial plantation assures quality of
stock and plant percentage is more than
natural forest.
• Artificial plantation is the one and only
options to restore and enrich the present
degraded forest.

20. Reference
• Nursery and plantation practices in
forestry by Vinod Kumar
• www.wikipidia.org