Vision-2025 of IARI

Agriculture in India is the means of livelihood of almost two thirds of the workforce in the
country. It employs nearly 62% of the country’s total population and occupies 42% of its total
geographical area. From a nation dependent on food imports to feed its population, India today is
not only self-sufficient in grain production, but also has a substantial reserve. The progress made by
agriculture in the last four decades has been one of the biggest success stories of free India. Agriculture
and allied activities constitute one of the main contributors to the Gross Domestic Product of the
nation. The increase in agricultural production has been brought about by bringing additional area
under cultivation, extension of irrigation facilities, the use of seed of improved high yielding varieties,
better production technologies evolved through agricultural research, water management, and plant
protection through judicious use of fertilizers, pesticides and cropping practices.

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Some Information about seed industry

Some Important Information about seed industry. Courtesy by : Mr Sharad Deshpande Team connect.

Floriculture In India

Floricuture Government of India has identified floriculture as a sunrise industry and accorded it 100% export oriented status. Owing to steady increase in demand of flower floriculture has become one of the important Commercial trades in Agriculture. Hence commercial floriculture has emerged as hi-tech activity-taking place under controlled climatic conditions inside greenhouse. Floriculture in India, is being viewed as a high growth Industry. Commercial floriculture is becoming important from the export angle. The liberalization of industrial and trade policies paved the way for development of export-oriented production of cut flowers. The new seed policy had already made it feasible to import planting material of international varieties. It has been found that commercial floriculture has higher potential per unit area than most of the field crops and is therefore a lucrative business. Indian floriculture industry has been shifting from tra...

Floriculture

Floriculture or flower farming as it is popularly called is a discipline of Horticulture, and is the study of growing and marketing flowers and foliage plants. Floriculture includes cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for sales or for use as raw materials in cosmetic and perfume industry and the pharmaceutical sector. The persons associated with this field are called floriculturists. Officially Floriculture began in the late 1800's in England where flowers were grown in large estates, and now has spread to most other countries as well. The floral industry today has grown to much larger proportions and offers a wide scope for growth and profits. The countries involved in the import of flowers are Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Japan while those involved in export are Columbia, Israel, Spain and Kenya. In India, Floriculture industry comprises flower trade, production of nursery plants and potted plants, seed and bulb production, micro propagation and extract...

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