Punjab minister for agriculture, Arshad Khan Lodhi has said that the government is taking various measures to enhance the production of cut flowers as billions of rupees can be earned through its export.
A project has been initiated in this regard at a cost of Rs 35 million under which the people will be trained for setting up green houses and cultivation of the crop, he added. During a meeting with the farmers and exporters of the flowers, on Friday, Lodhi said Punjab Floriculture Development Council has been set up and its first meeting will be held on February 07.
The secretary agriculture Fayyaz Bashir said that flower work of Rs 30 trillion is exported all over the world and Holland exporting 58-percent of the total export, followed by Colombia 14-percent, Kenya 5-percent, Spain 2-percent whereas India exports the flower of Rs 4 billion. The total flower export of Pakistan is Rs 35 million.