Horticulture Guruji
Importance of Ornamental Crops / Floriculture
Floriculture & Landscape Gardening
Floriculture: –
The science of the cultivation of flowers and ornamental plants is called floriculture.
- Production share of flower, medicinal and aromatic crops in horticulture crops–1.2% (2018).
- In 2018, flower, medicinal and aromatic crops have 1044 thousand hectares area, 3651 thousand MT production, and 3.49 MT/ha productivity.
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Importance of Ornamental Crops
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Religious Value
- 30% of the total cut flowers consumed in the city of Kolkata are used for worship
- In other parts of the country, flowers are used to offering or worship in temples, Gurudwaras, and other religious places.
2. Aesthetic Value
- In our society, no function is complete without the use of flowers.
- Baby born, Birthday, marriage ceremony, welcome at homecoming friend or relatives.
- Flowers are also used to offering sick’s to speeding recovery.
- Flowers are used to making Bouquet, Garlands, Button Holes, Gajras and Venis
- Growing colourful flowers in the house and parks enhance the beauty of the surrounding.
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Industrial and Nurseries Development
- Flowers provide raw material to industries.
- Many Cosmetics and other beauty products are prepared from flowers.
- Perfume, soap, rose water, Gulkand made from the rose.
- Many industries make a bouquet and dry flower arrangements,
- Nurseries produce plants and seeds.
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Employment Generation
- Floriculture industries provide employment
- In India, many poor families making Gajra, Veni, garlands, and sell them to get food.
- Galkand and perfumeries industries also provide employment.
- The cultivation of flowers requires labour for daily picking, grading, and packaging of flowers.
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Income Generation
- One ton of Jasmine yields about 3 kg of concrete which sells at Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 10,000 per Kg.
- Rose Edouard at 200-500 per quitantal.
- Floriculture is an intensive type of agriculture and the income per unit area from floriculture is much higher than any other branch of agriculture.
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Nutritional & Medicinal value
- Use of dry fruit of Vanilla palnifolia to flavouriing desserts and other products.
- Use the underground stem of Nelumbium (Lotus) as vegetables called Bhasinda.
- Other aquatic plants are used as vegetables and pickle making
- Water lillies, lotus, Euryale ferox (makhana).
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Export Value
- Some nurseries are exporting cut flowers, bulbus, and potted plants, especially foliage plants, to Arab countries at remunerative prices.