Current Horticulture

About the SHRD

The Society for Horticultural Research and Development (SHRD), Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh, India), came into existence on May 22, 2013 and subsequently registered under the Indian legislation, Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Society is fully committed to the furtherance of all research and developmental activities, including education in all branches of horticultural sciences. [Click here for detail]

About the Journal

Current Horticulture (Print ISSN: 2347-7377; Online ISSN: 2455-7560), is a Peer Reviewed and Open Access Journal published since 2013. The journal is official publication of the Society for Horticultural Research and Development (SHRD) and published quarterly (4 issues annually).

Current Horticulture publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research and review articles covering a wide range of topics in horticultural sciences.

The prime objective of the Current Horticulture is for the advancement of the basic and fundamental research in Horticultural Sciences among horticulturists, researchers, scientists, students, educators and other stakeholders in order to promote exchange of scientific knowledge and interaction among them in a mission-mode approach.

Aims and scope

Current Horticulture, an open-access and peer-reviewed journal, considers articles on all aspects of research on Horticultural crops.

1. Fruit crops
2. Vegetable crops
3. Commercial flower crops and ornamentals
4. Spice crops
5. Plantation crops
6. Medicinal and aromatic plants
7. Protected horticulture
8. Post-harvest technology/managment and processing of horticultural crops

The journal welcomes manuscripts in the following aspects of horticultural crops: Cultivation, Crop improvement, Genetics, Genomics,  Post-harvest technology and management, Biotechnology, Food Science, Crop protection, Nanotechnology, Botany, Taxonomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Extension, Economics etc.

The journal maintains an efficient editorial process, with an average of 15 days from submission to first decision and approximately 45 days for peer review.

Current Horticulture has received a NAAS Score of 4.62, as per the latest NAAS Journal Ratings (2025) released by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi.

Current Horticulture does not charge any publication fees or article processing charges (APCs).

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