Commercial Floriculture

Employment Potential

• The nature of industry requires an exceptionally large work force at the growing /collecting stages.
  
• About 10,000 people are directly employed and about 40,000 people are indirectly employed with this industry.
  
• A large number of employed are rural women, who collects the flowers and plant materials, sun dry them and then ready them for dispatch.
  
• More than 3,500 women are involved in this industry in Tuticorin alone and many in Kolkata.
  
• Thus dried flower industry is critical from the stand point of employment potential.