Commercial Floriculture

Introduction

• Rose is ‘Eros’ (The Greek Love - God).
• It is one of the ‘Natures Beautiful Creations’.
• Hence, it is universally acclaimed as the ‘Queen of flowers’ called by a ‘Sappho’ a poetess about more than 2500 years ago.
• No other flower is a better symbol of love, adoration, innocence, peace, friendship, affection, passion and other virtues than the rose since thousands of years.
• It is certainly the best known and most popular of all the cut flowers throughout the world and has been growing on this earth for many million years before the man himself appeared on earth.
• Rose is considered as National flower of England.
• In India, it was referred in old Sanskrit literature as Tarnipushpa, Atimanjula, Simantika, etc.
• The rose adored not only the royal palaces but also the ashrams of saints.
• It has become the part and parcel of life being connected with all phases of our life right from ‘birth to death’.
• The growing of roses in India developed with the distillation of roses as mentioned in Ayurveda by Charaka around 100 AD.
• The interest in cultivation however increased considerably mainly during the last four five decades and at present it has become most important commercial flower.
• As a result of the great demand for modern roses (HT roses) / standard roses, many nurseries have been established in an around the big cities.
• It is the largest traded flowers in the world, worth 1.5 billion dollars globally.
• The Holland alone 500 million dollars and is growing 7-8% annually.

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