Introduction

Introduction
  • India has a long tradition of floriculture. As it is an ancient creative skill with imagination and an advanced science that played a very importation role in the course of human civilization and its social development.
  • In most part of the country, flower growing is carried out on small holdings and commercial floriculture has assumed importance only in the recent past.
  • Traditionally, flowers have been grown in India in the open fields, where they have been exposed to both biotic and abiotic stresses. Hence, the quality is not up to the standards.
  • However, in the era of globalization, the produce has to be of International quality and globally competitive, as there is lot of demand for different floricultural products in the export market. The modern floriculture will meet the above demand of the present day’s consumers.
    Definition:
      Floriculture can be defined as “a specialized branch of horticulture which deals not only with the cultivation of flowers, foliage, climbers, trees, shrubs, cacti, succulents, etc., but also with their marketing and production of value-added products from them”
      Or
      Floriculture can also be defined as “a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and floristry, comprising the floral industry. Floriculture includes bedding plants, flowering plants, foliage plants or houseplants, cut greens and cutflowers”.
  • Majority of floriculture crops are generally herbaceous.
  • Bedding and garden plants consist of young flowering plants especially annuals and perennials.
  • The floriculture business is growing in the world at around 6-10 % per annum.
  • In spite of a long tradition of floriculture, India's share in the International market for these flowers is negligible (< 0.70 %).
  • During the last few years, taking an advantage of the incentives offered by the Government of India, a number of Floriculture units were established in India for producing and exporting flowers to the developed countries. Most of them are located near Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi and are obtaining the technical know-how from Dutch as well as Israeli Consultants.
  • Tamilnadu is the leader in floriculture followed by Karnataka, accounting for 75% of India's total flower production and the state is having the highest area under both modern and traditional flowers.
  • The country's first and the only Digital Flower Auction Centre is located in Bengaluru, running by Karnataka Agro Industrial Corporation (KAIC).
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