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Kadiyam to be nursery hub of nation
He addressed the inaugural session of 25th annual group meeting of All India Coordinated Research Project on Floriculture on Tuesday at CTRI here.
Rajamahendravaram: T Janakiram, Assistant Director General, Horticulture, ICAR has said that Kadiyam nurseries are going to be transformed as nursery hub of the country and suggested that this is the time for floriculture department in India to for public-private partnership extensively.
He addressed the inaugural session of 25th annual group meeting of All India Coordinated Research Project on Floriculture on Tuesday at CTRI here.
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 floriculture department to give new direction to this field.
He said the department was a new emerging field and for the first time in last 20 years it got demand from foreign countries besides becoming a livelihood for local farmers.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr BMC Reddy, Vice-Chancellor of Dr YSR Horticulture University opined that strong data base, documentation of genetic resources of floriculture is need of the hour and the young scientists should focus on this area. He said that lack of documentation would create a major problem in future that no history of original resource would be available to the future generations.
Dr Reddy said that in flowery culture there were three varieties of flowers in which the country was leading in exports. As far as Andhra Pradesh was concerned, the small and marginal farmers were dependent on loose flowers, which was under open cultivation and the State was leading in the area of cultivation. However, the State was lagging behind in loose flower production, he added.
As per Dr Reddy, 22.97 lakh metric tonnes of loose flowers were being produced in States like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Bihar and Telangana.
He informed that loose flowers were being cultivated in 2.25 lakh hectares in the country and 22.97 lakh tonnes of loose flowers were being produced. He observed that the demand for flowers was high in places like Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
He explained that Rs 8.5 crore worth of flowers were being imported from the countries like Thailand and Netherlands and Rs 320 crore worth of dry flowers were being exported from India.
He suggested crop-wise estimate from village level, nurseries standardisation, gap tracking technology and action plan to face protected cultivation problems.KV Prasad, Director, ICAR, Pune and others also spoke on this occasion.
