There are 4 majors in the department: Horticulture Technology, Seeds Production and Management, Facility Agriculture Technology and Crop Production Technology, among which Horticulture Technology, Seeds Production and Management and Crop Production Technology have separate teaching and research offices. The department is the vice president unit of Shanghai Flower Arrangement Association. The major of Horticulture Technology is the key construction major for the Shanghai 085 and Shanghai characteristic higher vocational college. It is also the first batch of modern apprenticeship pilot major of the Ministry of Education. Meanwhile, there is a pilot class of Horticulture Technology set formiddle and high school with Shanghai Agricultural School and a cooperation project of college upgrading education with University of Szeged.
The department has 26 faculties, including 17 full-time teachers, among whom there is a municipal star teacher, a national star teacher in agriculture vocational education, a teacher with the first prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, a teacher with the Shanghai Gardener Award, two teachers with the Shanghai Education Award, and three members of the Shanghai Agricultural Commission’s Expert Service Group. Besides, there are 9 teachers with deputy senior professional titles and 5 intermediate professional titles, 1 doctoral teacher, 1 doctoral teacher, 12 master's degree teachers, 13 dual-qualified teachers, and more than 20 industry and enterprise experts are employed as part-time professional leaders and part-time teachers. The teachers and students of the department have repeatedly achieved good results in national skill competitions and municipal competitions.
The teaching team of horticultural technology is a municipal teaching team in Shanghai, which has 4 Shanghai-level quality courses. The teachers in this department presided over and participated in 36 scientific research projects, 1 approved variety in Shanghai, 11 teaching materials edited, 12 teaching materials Deputy edited, 25 teaching materials participated in editing, and 66 papers were published in core journals and other journals at home and abroad. The Department of Plant Sciences and Technology actively explores the talent training model of school-enterprise cooperation and the combination of work and learning, and has successively organized many school-enterprise cooperation classes such as the May 4th Class, Rice Industry Class, and Seedling Class. Among them, the innovation and practice of the May 4th Class with dual subjects won the First Prize of Shanghai Municipal Teaching Achievement.
The department has set up 12 experimental training rooms and production sites, such as a floriculture workshop, a digital integrated microscope laboratory, a pest specimen laboratory, a plant protection experimental training room, a seed testing laboratory, an embossing creation room, a soil and fertilizer experimental training room, a plant tissue culture laboratory, a flower pot art training room, a vegetable mechanized production training ground, a factory seedling production base, and a 200 (1 mu equals 0.1647369 acre) ecological agriculture and forestry vocational education training base named Wushe in Songjiang District, as well as 18 off-campus training bases including Shanghai Cangqiao Crystal Pear and Shanghai Guangming Senyuan. The department is well equipped for the training, teaching, and research needs of teachers and students.