Create And Develop Successful Businesses Through Farm Ideas.: August 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Gerbera flower farming inside greenhouses in India

From previous posts,we know the advantages of farming flower plants inside Greenhouses.Now its time to go in detail about some economically important flowers and its cultivation inside Greenhouses.Gerbera is one of the economically important flower plant and the flowers are widely used in stage decoration field.So its demand is very high and it ensures maximum return from its flowers.

Gerbera plant require a special type of climate like minimum wet and dry condition.Excess of dryness or wet condition will ruin the plant.This speciality makes it difficult to grow in outside natural condition in India,where either heavy rain or dry conditions occur.But Greenhouse shelter can provide solution for it,where we can control dry and wet conditions effectively.Drip irrigation system can help to control watering and fertilization effectively.

For Gerbera farming,we need to construct a Greenhouse shelter of suitable size(at least 10 cents).Then a mixture of sand,compost and soil should be arranged in raw to plant the Gerbera plants.High productive plants can be arranged from Bangalore or from Agricultural universities.Great care should be taken while growing plants.Regular fertilization and fungus controlling is essential.More details can be collected from nearby Gerbera farmer or from Government agencies such as Horticultural mission or Agricultural Universities.

Gerbera flowers are widely used in lots of social occasions as decoration materials.Almost all Event management teams require Gerbera flowers.Now they are arranging flowers from Bangalore due to non-availability in local market.This leaves Greenhouse farmers a Golden chance.So its a good time to study about Gerbera plants and implement it in our greenhouse..

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Scope of Greenhouse Flower farming in India

Scope of Greenhouses for Flower farming/Floriculture is huge in India. Various high value flowers like Gerbera, Rose, Lily, Orchids, Anthurium are cultivated inside Greenhouses / Polyhouses . Unlike other Horticulture products like vegetables or fruits,Flower cultivation require great care and favourable environment.By utilizing Greenhouse farming technology,We can provide favourable environment to the flowering plants and thus increase the productivity of the farm. Here we discuss about

Scope of Greenhouse flower farming in India
How Greenhouse flower farming helps farmer(Advantages)
Popular flowers cultivated inside Greenhouses.

Each year we export millions of flowers and flower products.Local market is also very strong and it expands at a rate of 20% annually.Which means the demand for ornamental flowers are increasing day by day.Today flower farmers are getting decent price for their flowers.But diseases and attacks from pests are main challenges for farmers.These issues decreases the quality of the flowers and forces farmers to spend more money for chemicals and pesticides.Seasonal climate changes are another challenge.Greenhouse Flower farming is a complete solution for such issues.Lets check how Greenhouse technology can help farmers

Greenhouse shelters provide excellent protection from external climate changes.Temperature and other factors inside the shelter can be controlled effectively.Thus Greenhouses provide optimum climatic condition for plants which yield more quality flowers.
As Greenhouses are isolated from external environment,diseases and pest issues are less,almost nil.This ensures quality flowers.
Off seasonal production possible.
More export level foreign plants can be grown.
Very easy to incorporate latest technologies and methods of farming inside Greenhouses.
A more professional way of farming.
Bulk production and harvesting possible
Consistent supply of flowers to the market possible
More return on Investment.
Yield is 10-15 times more compared to open farming.This will boost your revenue and selling capacity.You will get more bargaining power also.

Flowers like Gerbera,Roses,Anthurium,Orchids,Lily etc are commonly cultivated inside Greenhouses.Greenhouse Gerbera farming is more popular in India.Special Rose varieties like Dutch Rose,Yellow Rose,Mercedes,starlite,Grand galla,Ravel,Noblese etc are also cultivated inside Greenhouses. These flowers are mainly used for decoration.So the quality of the flowers are very important.Greenhouse cultivation helps farmers for producing quality flowers.

Greenhouse flower cultivation help farmers to produce maximum number of High quality flowers from a small area.In India,we can utilize the huge domestic market and fast growing export market to sell these flowers.The bulk and consistent production of export quality flowers can trigger market very positively and the farmer can take benefit of it.So the scope of flower farming in Greenhouses is very high in India.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Recent changes made by Greenhouse technology in Indian farming sector

Greenhouse farming technology is the most revolutionary technology that changed the agricultural industry in India last ten years.It changed the way others see the farming sector.After the successful implementation of this technology,the profitability raised considerably and farming became one of the successful and attractive business sector.

The main speciality of greenhouse farming is that it provides maximum yields while utilizing minimum area.A farmer having three decent modern Greenhouse structures can make 4 to 8 Lakhs per annum based on his products and market.Since the products are exotic vegetables,flowers and fruits, price and market is not a big issue.

How Greenhouse Technology changes farming sector

As the profitability increased considerably by Greenhouse farming,youths attracted to farming.Before the introduction of Greenhouse technology,the profit from farming was poor and many young people not interested to get in to this field.But after the introduction of Greenhouses,more and more people attracted to farming.Now lots of professionals and executives are interested in farming and they are even ready to become full time farmers.This results in lots of investments in farming sectors from individuals,entrepreneurs and companies.

Changes in farming concept

Farming concept changed from large farm land to small greenhouse buildings.As farmers get more control over environmental factors in Greenhouses,They are able to concentrate more on other aspects of farming like sales and marketing.Jobs in farm field also converted to executive jobs in Greenhouses.

Application of Modern Technologies

Greenhouse shelters are suitable platforms for application of latest technologies and equipments.So after the introduction of Greenhouses,usage of such equipments became more easy and more and more researchers are being conducted in this field.

So in total,Greenhouses are the suitable environment where modern science and our farming practices can work together to produce high quality, environmental friendly products.