India: Delhi flower market attracts young entrepreneurs
"In 2014-15, horticulture department exported 1,700 MT loose flowers and 21 crore (210 million) spikes of gerbera, carnation and gladiolus along with some other flowers to other states. Delhi's flower market has nearly 8% import of flowers from Uttarakhand. We are planning to multiply this business by introducing various modern techniques of cultivating flowers to the farmers of state and reaching out to all the other big flower markets in India," said Ratan Kumar, deputy director, horticulture mission, Uttarakhand.
Mukhtiyar Chand from Bajpur in Udham Singh Nagar, who started his flower cultivation on a 1,000 square metre area, now grows flowers on over 6,000 square metres of land and makes an annual profit of Rs 25 lakh (37,000 USD). Chand sends his field-grown gerbera to Lucknow and Delhi flower markets which, he says, provide the best price for flowers.
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