The Punjab agriculture department will provide 50,000 rose flower plants, free of cost, to farmers with the aim to promote rose (Gulab) farming, said Assistant Horticulture officer (Floriculture section) Fayyaz Hussain Shah on Sunday.
Talking to the news agency, Shah said the department was interested in the promotion of rose flower cultivation across the district, adding that rose flowers were being cultivated at 300 acres in the district.
“It is a highly profitable crop and farmers should shift their focus towards cultivation of rose flowers. Once the flower plant is planted, it starts giving flowers within six months”, Shah said. He said that farmers could earn nearly Rs 200,000 from one acre rose flowers crop in a season.
Rose plants give flowers for about 30 years if proper maintenance of the fields is ensured, he said and added that the process of distribution of flower plants would be started very soon in the district.