Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: A unique type of awareness programme was organised by the flower growers for consumers to maximum usage of fresh flowers in day to day life and events instead of using artificial and fake flowers that are imported from China in which hazardous dyes and cheap plastic use threatening for human, environment and farming community.
While addressing the media Tajinder Singh Wazir, president Jammu Flower Growers, Processors Cooperative Ltd and member J&K Kissan Advisory Board for development of Kissans expressed satisfaction over the recent Government Order No. 95 JK (GAD) of 2022 in which a High Level Committee was constituted under Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary Agriculture Production and farmers welfare. Hopefully this initiative will rejuvenate the commercial floriculture in entire J&K, he added.
The growers with placards in their hands demanding ban on artificial and fake flowers said it is a best time for UT administration to declare a concrete policy for commercial floriculture which covers the aspects like Interest submission, insurance on industry pattern for hightech floriculture units, restructuring of JK Bank Commercial Floriculture Finance on easy terms for Floriculture – entrepreneurs , Single Window Systems within one department for its extension and area of expansion, quality capacity building/ training from SKUAST (J&K), revival of sick floriculture units on Uttranchal State pattern, local for vocal pattern for Mari Gold production to trap 50 crore market in Jammu and the Government should provide marketing support to cooperatives / FPOs as per the pattern of Agriculture Department done in this year to support their farmers providing marketing Kiosk at their premises.
In this event free flowers were distributed for promotion of floriculture in fresh flower trade and demanded ban on artificial flower to save environment.
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