All is not rosy for flower growers
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With few consumers and costs plummeting, some favor to go away the crops unplucked in farms
Flower cultivation had been giving an assured month-to-month earnings to growers, however since lockdown/curfew has been imposed greater than a month in the past in Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, all the pieces has not been rosy with the enterprise.
The sale of recent flowers is historically a day/night affair, however the 12 midday to six a.m. curfew has left a small window for enterprise when solely small portions are being purchased, primarily for puja.
A fact-check within the Venkatampalli and Nadimidoddi villages of Narpala mandal in Anantapur district reveals there aren’t any takers for the ladies’s favorite and fast-moving ‘kanakambaram’ (Crossandra infundibuliform – firecracker flower) that instructions ₹600 a kg in any season and goes as much as even ₹2,000 a kg through the wedding ceremony season and festivals. Very few businessmen are stated to be lifting the shares.
Not price labour value
The district, that boasts of the very best acreage for firecracker flowers grown space in Andhra Pradesh (2,330 hectares) with 1,859 farmers relying on it, is discovering it tough to promote its produce with the Bengaluru market completely closed and not a lot being offered within the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh markets. Many farmers have left the flowers unplucked contemplating it not price even the price of labour. Small portions are being taken by common merchants from native markets providing a pittance. In Kurnool too 903 farmers commercially develop the flowers in 527 hectares in 27 villages.
White tuberose once more is grown in a big space – 431 hectares on a par with YSR Kadapa district (468 ha) – and chrysanthemums of all colors are grown beneath polyhouses catering to the ornament and different garland-making enterprise. Even these growers are discovering it tough to promote their produce with costs nosediving for the previous one month. “While white chrysanthemums used to command close to ₹600 a kg, they are being offered now only for ₹50 a kg,” says Prasad, a farmer in Nadimidoddi, who grows them in a seven-acre polyhouse.
Anil Kumar of Venkatampalli grows tuberose in three acres. It used to fetch him ₹50 a kg, along with his plot yielding 20 kg a day going as much as 50 kg in peak season. Now there aren’t any bulk consumers for the flowers and therefore he does not pluck them any extra and waits for the demand to enhance after lockdown is lifted.
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