National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Floriculture is gaining an emerging business in India and has attained popularity among the stake holders which is evident from the data w.r.t area and production during the last fifteen years. During 2018-19 total area under floriculture in India was 313 thousand ha and in Himachal Pradesh it was 629.29 ha (NHB, 2019). The Govt. of India as well as HP has launched a large number of schemes to promote protected cultivation of various flower crops including carnation. So much so, a lot of research work has been carried out to improve the yield and quality of carnation cut flowers. In spite of all these, the stake holders are experiencing several constraints with respect to production of quality cut flowers in huge quantum including their marketing. Hence, the present study was conducted to ascertain the specific problems and constraints faced by the growers in producing better quality cut flowers, their marketing and obtaining higher B:C ratio in ten districts of Himachal Pradesh. So, from the present study it can be concluded that the selected carnation growers are experiencing problems regarding infrastructure facilities, high cost of inputs, incidence of disease & insect-pest, finances and market knowledge.
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