Commercial floriculture flourishing in Dang
Dang / Nov 4: More and more farmers in the district are drawn to commercial marigold farming in recent period. The farmers have been found involved in marigold floriculture targeting the festivals like Tihar.
Prem Bibas Gharti of Tulasipur in Dang, who is in music profession, has started marigold farming collectively with the partnership of other four individuals at Jinuwagau of Tulasipur sub-metroplis-17.
“I have started marigold flower cultivation even to be engaged in agriculture sector,” Gharti asserted. They have cultivated ‘Karma 555’ species of marigold flowers in five katthas of land through Sugandhit Agriculture Group.
They have planted around 2400 saplings of marigold flowers and expected around 10 quintals of flower production from the area.
He mentioned, “We have already received advance order of more than one quintal of flowers ahead of Tihar. We have involved in marigold farming with the aim of disseminating a message that flowers produced in local levels should be consumed in the locality.”
Not only individual and groups, Agriculture cooperatives are also active in commercial marigold farming. Bijauri Small Farmers Agriculture Cooperative has done commercial marigold farming at Bankatta taking one bigha of land on lease for five years at Rs 2,000 per kattha annually.
Cooperative Chairperson Chitra Dhital shared that they have set a target of making Rs 1.2 million to Rs 1.6 million income from it. They have made publicity of their marigold farming using social platforms like tiktok and facebook and they have been receiving demands of flowers from different places.
Similarly, “Green City Multi-Purpose Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Firm’ located at Tulasipur-15 has also started selling marigold powers and garlands in a commercial manner.
Farm Proprietor Ashish BC viewed that they have been producing attractive yellow and orange- colour marigold flower.
The farm supplies flowers and garlands in both wholesale and retail price. BC added that marigold farming done through individual efforts to big agriculture firm has helped much to make Dang self-reliant on flowers. RSS