Dr Kuldeep Singh, head the Department of extension education and associate director (skill development), observed that floriculture and landscaping has proved to be a sustainable lucrative business as the demand for flowers as well as ornamental plants has always seen a spurt in hotels, educational institutions, community places and parks, religious places, homes, farmhouses, etc
The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) organized a two-day training program on the "Use of ornamental plants for landscaping", to keep the city dwellers and villagers aligned with the latest trends of landscaping.
Dr Kuldeep Singh, head the Department of Extension Education and associate director (skill development), observed that floriculture and landscaping has proved to be a sustainable lucrative business as the demand for flowers as well as ornamental plants has always seen a spurt in hotels, educational institutions, community places and parks, religious places, homes, farm houses, etc. Be it small- or large-scale floral business, farmers, nurseries and amateurs are earning substantially, thus changing the entire socio-economic landscape of the concerned rural and urban citizens, he added.
The program coordinator Prerna Kapila said that the training programme was planned to keep in mind the rising preference for the use of ornamental plants for landscaping at the rooftop of houses, farms or other surrounding areas.
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