Profile and problems of cutflower growers

摘要

The Government of India has declared floriculture as an important thrust area in 1992 and has targeted an export of Rs. 120 crores by 1996-97 and Rs. 200 crores by 2000 A.D. (Srivatsava, 1995). Though cutflower production is of recent origin a few farmers in the potential production centres of Tamil Nadu have already export-oriented cutflower production. This condition necessitated the extension workers to understand the profile in order to design appropriate strategies to transfer cutflower technologies to farmers. As cutflower enterprise is a recently introduce one, the growers face specific problems in cultivation and marketing of cut flowers. Knowledge about these problems will help the administrators to device appropriate policy measures for promoting the enterprise largely among farmers. Keeping these facts, a study was conducted to enumerate the socio-economic characteristics of the potential growers of export-oriented cut flowers and to identify, the problems faced by the actual cutflower growers.