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12-09-2011 |
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Indian Flowers a Hit in International Markets |
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New Delhi: India earned $48.5 million (around Rs 215.27 crore) from exports of flowers to over 90 countries last year.
The government earned a total foreign exchange of $48.5 million (about Rs 215.27 crore) from the export of flowers during April 2010 to December 2010, according to the official data.
The country had shipped 21845.65 tonnes of flowers to 93 countries during the period, according to data presented by Minister of State for Agriculture Harish Rawat in Parliament last week.
India and China have large chunk of areas under floriculture.
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are the leading flower producing states in the country. Largest quantity of Indian flowers (5,830 tonnes) were exported to the USA worth Rs 44.81 crore during April-December 2010.
Other leading destinations of Indian flowers shipment were Germany (3,587 tonnes worth Rs 33.33 crore), Netherland (2,334 tonnes valued at Rs 30.44 crore), United Kingdom (3,273 tonnes valued at Rs 25.42 crore) and United Arab Emirates (618 tonnes valued Rs 7.02 crore) during the period, the minister added.
Among neighbouring countries India exported 1.57 tonnes of flowers to Pakistan worth Rs 7.17 lakh), the minister said. Indian flowers found markets even in smaller countries like Finland, St Kitts Nevis, Mali, Seychelles and Sierra Leone.
Source : financialexpress.com
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