Jammu, Feb 14: Today in Jammu on Valentine’s Day a unique type of awareness program organised by the flower growers for consumers to maximise the use of fresh flowers in day to day life and events instead of artificial/ fake flowers that are imported from China in which hazardous dyes and cheap plastic use threaten environmental and economic wellbeing.
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 welcomes the recent Govt. Order No. 95 JK (GAD) of 2022 in which a high level committee constituted by Govt under Navin Kumar Choudhary IAS. Principal Secretary Agriculture Production and farmers welfare. Hopefully this initiative will rejuvenate the commercial floriculture in entire J&K.
In this program growers said it is a best time for J&K administration to declare a concrete policy for commercial floriculture which covers the aspects like Interest Submission, Insurance on Industry Pattern For High Tech Floriculture Units, Restructuring of Jk Bank Commercial Floriculture Finance on Easy Terms for Flori – Entrepreneurs , Single Window Systems Within One Department for Its Extension and Area 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 Markets In Jammu As A City of Temples And Last Government ShouldProvide Marketing Supports To Cooperatives / Fpo’s As Per The Pattern OfAgriculture department done in this year to support their farmers provided marketing kioks at their premises.
In this event free flowers were distributed for promotion of floriculture in fresh flower trade and demand ban on artificial flower to save environment.
