The Hindu Business Line : Farmers take up floriculture in south Gujarat

KAMREJ: (Gujarat): With the growing demand of flowers across the country and abroad, the lives of hundreds of villagers in south Gujarat are fast improving.

More and more farmers in Surat and Navsari districts are giving up traditional farming for floriculture - thanks to the Narendra Modi-led state government's 24-hour power scheme for the peasants.

"We are grateful to the Modi government for covering floriculture under the Jyotigram Yojana. We get 24-hour power supply required to operate our sprinklers and foggers, which control the climate inside the polythene houses".

"The market for flowers is very huge and growing in India and so farmers in Surat and Navsari districts have set up about 62 such projects which receive about 20 per cent subsidy from the National Horticulture Board," says Rajendra H Bhakta, a farmer of Orna village, who has recently taken up floriculture.

In fact, under the aegis of the Jyotigram Project, in last four years, 17,834 of Gujarat's 18,000 villages have been illuminated, over 18,200 transformers have been set up, and over 76,000 km of transmission lines were laid. - PTI

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