A Horticulture and Flower Festival will be held on August 10 in Madhya Pradesh. The main function will be held at Rose Park, Bhopal at 11 am.
Horticulture Minister Kusum Mahdele and Mayor Alok Sharma will participate in it. Plantation programme will continue in entire State till February 2016. Meanwhile, 15 lakh saplings of fruits and one crore of flowers will be distributed in all districts of the State.
This was informed by Principal Secretary Horticulture Praveer Krishna on Tuesday. He informed that food processing will also begin at Rose Park on the day of festival, which would be later expanded to all parks.
Krishna informed that the festival will be held under Horticulture Golden Revolution Campaign. During it, saplings of various species will be planted at nurseries each of Bhopal and Pachmarhi and all 307 nurseries in the State, Government schools, colleges, hospitals and vacant land of offices. Plantation will be undertaken with the cooperation of collectors, municipal corporations/Nagar Palikas.
Public representatives will take part in the festival. Saplings of flowering trees will be planted from Raja Bhoj airport to Polytechnic crossing in Bhopal. About two lakh saplings of flowering trees are being grown in Government Model Nursery. In nurseries of district headquarters, minimum 20,000 saplings of flowering trees will be grown and distributed every month. Seedlings of two lakh flowering plants will be prepared at Kana Saiyan Model Nursery at Bhopal.
The Principal Secretary informed that saplings of fruit and flowering plants will be distributed at 50 centres at Bhopal on the day of the festival. Government Rose Park and Park Number-1 will be kept open for public on the day. Training session will also be launched at Fruit and Vegetable Training Centre. Gardner training programme will begin at Kana Saiyan next month. Horticulture Department has given its consent to Municipal Corporation to open provisional store and restaurant at Rose Garden and Park Number-1. The department has also given in-principle consent to produce organic manure in every park.