Abstract:
The North Eastern region is flush with beautiful natural flora throughout the year due to its
peculiar physiography, distinctive weather and agro climatic condition. The country is well
recognized for growing traditional flowers such as jasmine, marigold, chrysanthemum, tuberose,
crossandra and aster. It presents huge opportunity for commercial production and offers lucrative
investment opportunity for farmer and agro entrepreneurs. Commercial cultivation of cut flowers
such as rose, orchids, gladiolus, carnation, anthurium, gerbera and lilies have also been adopted
by farmers on large scale. There is high demand for these products in the domestic and
international market. India has significant prowess in floriculture and it has been identified as
focus area for exports.
