Nepal has only 561 commercial flower farmers
According to the Commercial Floriculture Survey 2014-15, unveiled by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), only 561 farmers are engaged in floriculture on a commercial scale.
The survey report shows that commercial floriculture is done in 36 districts over 147.4 hectares of land. While Kathmandu is at the top in terms of producing flowers commercially, Lalitpur, Morang, Bhaktapur and Kaski are the other top four districts where floriculture is done commercially. Of the total farmers doing commercial farming of flowers, 283 are based in Kathmandu.
The survey shows that 29 percent of owners of flower farms are women. The CBS report also shows that the domestic floriculture industry is contributing Rs 450 million (4.2 million USD) annually on average to the country’s GDP.
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