Rose Farming: Chhattisgarh is called the rice bowl, but now not only paddy is being cultivated in Chhattisgarh but flowers are also being cultivated. In Chhattisgarh, the number of such youth is continuously increasing, who after working in other fields including IT in the country and abroad, are now returning to their villages and making farming their career.
Instead of farming in the traditional way, these youth are doing farming in modern way. The cost of cultivating roses is very low and the income is also higher than other crops. Not only this, there is no impact on the fertilizer capacity of the field while cultivating flowers, because no pesticide is used for the crop production.
State’s roses are being supplied in metropolitan cities (Rose Farming)
Mahasamund farmer Amar Chandrakar, after returning to his village after completing his engineering studies, decided to pursue the experiment of rose cultivation in a modern way. In this work he got the support of grant and technology under the government’s horticulture scheme. After taking training in flower farming from the Horticulture Department, he has now taken the trend of rose cultivation forward to the cultivation of Jharbera and Sevanti flowers. Today, it is supplied in metros like Raipur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata and Bengaluru etc. Are.
Similarly, in the rural areas adjacent to Jagdalpur, farmers are earning a good amount by cultivating roses. Sudarshan Patil tells that roses are being cultivated using modern technology inside the polyhouse. About 30 thousand rose plants are planted in one acre. One plant gives 25 to 30 flowers in a year, whose wholesale price in the market is four to five rupees. This is an example of how many such youth have now joined this modern farming method.
Rose is in highest demand
Indian flower industry includes flowers like rose, tuberose, glades, anthurium, carnation, marigold etc. Flowers are cultivated in both modern poly and greenhouses. A unique change is being seen in the field of farming. In today’s time, roses are in great demand.
In such a situation, farmers can leave traditional farming and cultivate it. At present, farmers are earning lakhs of rupees by cultivating flowers and flower cultivation is proving to be very beneficial for the farmers. Earning more than Rs 2-3 lakh annually.