The orientation of running a school in the field of horticulture (agronomy and seed industry) is based in Sichuan, facing the whole country, oriented by promoting the professional needs of agricultural industries such as agricultural industrial upgrading, rural economic development and agricultural modernization, focusing on the cultivation of practical ability, driven by innovation and entrepreneurship, taking the combination of production and learning as the way to establish a management system, taking the cultivation of practical ability and quality as the core, and forming a system, mechanism, path and mode for agricultural masters to effectively serve the needs of regional agricultural development. Cultivate the coordinated development of knowledge, quality and ability, and have a solid basic theory, systematic professional knowledge and related management knowledge. High-quality applied compound high-level talents who can engage in agricultural technology research, application, development and popularization, agricultural and rural development planning and consultation, rural social management, agricultural education and other work in agricultural enterprises and institutions, management departments, agricultural extension departments, universities, scientific research institutes and related units.

In view of the outstanding industrial problems in Southwest China, such as breeding of fine varieties of horticultural ornamental plants, high-yield and high-quality stress-resistant cultivation, planning and design of landscape gardening, and making full use of the existing discipline characteristics and advantages of Southwest University of Science and Technology, the field of horticulture has formed a stable and distinctive research direction in the fields of modern fruit and vegetable production technology integration and application, landscape plants and ornamental gardening, landscape gardening planning, etc. This field was merged into the field of agronomy and seed industry on 20 18.