The Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu under the flagship Mission on Floriculture on Thursday, 20 November 2025, kick-started its annual Tulip plantation at its Field Station Bonera Pulwama. Under the Mission CSIR-IIIM has initiated tulip cultivation at Field Station Bonera since 2022 with the primary objectives of indigenizing tulip bulb production, developing agro-technological protocols and expanding crop cultivation.
Dr Zabeer Ahmed Director CSIR-IIIM, who inaugurated the plantation while interacting with media, said that pursuant to the Prime Ministers clarion call for a self-reliant India and with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, CSIR Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu is implementing the pan India CSIR Floriculture Mission envisioned by Dr Jitendra Singh Union Minister for Science and Technology and Vice President CSIR.
He further added that the initiative marks a significant step toward positioning Jammu and Kashmir as a hub for tulip bulb production in future, aiming to shift India from an import dependent consumer to a self sufficient producer.
Under the flagship Mission the Institute has achieved remarkable achievements since 2021 in strengthening the commercial Floriculture sector in the region and empowering the farmers through production of high value cut, bulbous and other region specific ornamental crops, he added.
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