Author(s):

Komal and Binoo Sehgal

Abstract: Floriculture is one of the branches of agriculture, which deals with growing, cultivation and marketing of flowers and foliage plants. After liberalization the Government of India identified Floriculture as a sunrise industry and accorded it cent percent export oriented status. In present scenario of increasing demand for cut flowers, protected cultivation in polyhouses is the best alternative for using land and other resources more efficiently. Government of India also takes initiatives to promote the floriculture at the international level. So, the present study was conducted in Haryana state on 100 farmers with the objective to find out the knowledge of farmers regarding floriculture in polyhouses. The study found that all the 50 farmers having polyhouses had more knowledge about the government initiatives i.e. subsidy provision, Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) scheme, National Horticulture Mission (NHM) scheme and awareness programmes for promoting the floriculture. All of them were also having knowledge about Anti Insect Shade Net House (AISNH) and Natural Ventilated Polyhouse (NVPH) types of polyhouses while 74 and 42 percent farmers doing open cultivation had knowledge about AISNH and NVPH types of polyhouses respectively. Overall, majority of farmers (83%) had knowledge about covering sheet followed by drip irrigation system (77%) and ventilation system (74%) of polyhouses. Farmers of open cultivation had less knowledge about all these parts of polyhouses. So, government needs to create more training programmes for the awareness of farmers on benefits and use of polyhouses for growing flowers.

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