Pollination management

Horticultural practices to enhance pollination

Pollination management is the horticultural practice that accomplishes or enhances pollination of a crop, to improve yield or quality, by understanding of the particular crop's pollination needs, and by knowledgeable management of pollenizers, pollinators, and pollination conditions. While people think first of the European honey bee when pollination comes up, in fact many different means of pollination management are used, both other insects and other mechanisms. Other insects are commercially available that are more efficient, like the blue orchard bee for fruit and nut trees; local bumblebees better specialized for some other crops; hand pollination that is essential for production of hybrid seeds and some greenhouse situations; and even pollination machines.

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