Indian grower has 70,000 varieties of tulips
His love affair with it continued for a long time until one day he decided to act on it. As soon as he graduated, he turned a big stretch of land at his native village at Kanipora, Kulgam into a flower garden and within years, Firdous expanded his venture from three to ten kanals of land (13,500 to 45,000 square meters). At the same time, he started attending floriculture workshops around the country to brush up on his skills.
Today, Firdous grows 70,000 different varieties of tulips – which he had brought from Holland- in his ten polyhouses and other varieties of flowers like Lilium, Carnation, Gerbera, and Gladiolus.
“I am currently sending flowers to Ludhiana, Delhi, Chandigarh and Jammu. After I realised their growing demand I also started marketing them in south India,” he says.
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