Punjab Government has launched a new policy to encourage flower transplantation in the State. The State Government will now control purchase, sale, storage and processing of all flowers in notified areas of market committees in several districts, a notification issued in this regard said.
The market committees, to be included, are in the districts of Barnala, Bathinda, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Mansa, Moga, Sri Mukatsar Sahib, SBS Nagar, Pathankot, Rupnagar, Ajitgarh (Mohali), Sangrur, Tarn Taran, and would be controlled by the State Government.
“The initiative will help the farmers to get out of the vicious cycle of wheat-paddy cultivation and supplement their income with the plantation of flowers, the demand for which is on the rise,” said an official spokesperson on Sunday.
The move has come to provide major impetus to the subsidiary occupation related to agriculture and to develop the State as a big market in the sector of Floriculture.
“The initiative has been taken with a view to keep the indebted peasantry of the state afloat as the consumption of flowers is on the rise day by day and have huge potential market world over,” he added.