India: Kadiyam to be national floriculture hub
He addressed the inaugural session of 25th annual group meeting of All India Coordinated Research Project on Floriculture.
Janakiram mentioned that floriculture was being cultivated in 3.5 lakh hectares in the country and 250 varieties of flowers exist in the country. He explained that ICAR was formulating guidelines for floriculture and nurseries and German floriculture was being adopted in India.
Stating that dry flowers were being developed in the country, he said that 50 new varieties of flowers had been identified and developed in recent times. He further said that interface meetings with other departments like DRDO was also important for the floriculture department to give new direction to this field.
He said the department was a new emerging field and for the first time in the last 20 years it saw demand from foreign countries besides becoming a livelihood for local farmers.
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