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By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
24 February 2008


A nascent 1 floriculture industry in India is cashing in on growing demand for roses overseas. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi.


It was just over a decade ago that a handful of entrepreneurs began to cultivate roses commercially in southern India, encouraged by the warm climate and a booming market for flowers worldwide.


Those investments have paid dividends 2. About 50 farms along a "floral corridor" between the southern cities of Hosur and Bangalore exported as many as 15 million red roses ahead of Valentine's Day earlier this month.


The head of the South Indian Floriculture Association, Najeeb Ahmed, says India's share of the world rose market is still tiny. But he says the country is making its presence felt in countries stretching from Australia and Japan to Britain and Germany.


"Indian quality of roses is as competitive in world market as roses from any other country like Africa, Ecuador, Colombia," he said. "We can grow roses round the year without artificial heating, lighting 3 and cooling systems, and with abundant availability of manpower - this industry requires a lot of manpower, and we are able to meet these requirements."


It is not just overseas markets that are driving the demand for roses. The domestic market is also booming, as younger people begin to celebrate events such as Valentine's Day with enthusiasm, encouraged by expanding middle class incomes and growing Western influence. Buying flowers for other occasions is also gaining in popularity in big cities.


The blossoming industry is encouraging floriculture companies to expand overseas. Last October, India's largest grower of roses, Karuturi Networks, purchased the world's largest rose producer - a Kenyan business, for $72 million. Kenya leads the world in rose cultivation 4.


Prasanna Pai, Karuturi's chief financial officer says business is soaring.


"This Valentine's Day has been very good for us. Compared to last year we have shipped four times the quantity we did last year," said Prasanna Pai.


Indian rose exports added up to approximately $80 million last year. Industry experts estimate that floriculture is expanding by more than 25 percent a year.




adj.初生的,发生中的
  • That slim book showed the Chinese intelligentsia and the nascent working class.那本小册子讲述了中国的知识界和新兴的工人阶级。
  • Despite a nascent democracy movement,there's little traction for direct suffrage.尽管有过一次新生的民主运动,但几乎不会带来直接选举。
红利( dividend的名词复数 ); 股息; 被除数; (足球彩票的)彩金
  • Nothing pays richer dividends than magnanimity. 没有什么比宽宏大量更能得到厚报。
  • Their decision five years ago to computerise the company is now paying dividends. 五年前他们作出的使公司电脑化的决定现在正产生出效益。
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃,不值得耕种。
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ABUI
airline alliance
annular membrane
antifungal
antinuclear antibodies
assaultees
attack-time delay
awasthi
balloon dilatation
barmitzvahs
best-connected
binary tree architecture
boron-lined
buoying
bursars
calappa capellonis
caremost
centre-fold
chabris
closure of freezing wall
colpostegnosis
continuously differentiable for n-times
corosal
create envelope
critical section routine
dang
dinghies
divergence of a vector
does to
doggy-fashion
edward osborne wilsons
electroluminescence junction
elevation of levelled ground
eoraptor
ethnophilosophies
excised
finnidas
fishing rod
fullery
genus Dicrostonyx
gotten ahead
grillage column base
high-voltage capacitor ceramic
Hypericum maculatum
incision of transverse septum of vagina
jailyard
Kaes-Bechterew layer
keratophyre spilite
Kumba virus
laist
Lakadiya
landslide victories
lithozonation
lumbar segments
megadealership
mid-height
military transport ship
multihop propagation
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-s-benzyl-L-cysteine
naval arsenal
non-thermal oxygen atoms
non-transferred arc plasma torch
nonslip terrazzo
nylon staple
one touch operation
Pellionia minima
percussion piston
period of reservior with full water
Photoncy
polynomial spline lag
praisingly
prebends
proprietarious
Pseudobythinella
pyrocarbonic acid diethyl ester
rectal wound
rod bearing seal
ruadh
sand bank
selective optical lock-on
Shelford's law of tolerance
SNIA
soil water specific yield
source register field
sperical variance function
spirillaceaes
star transmission network
subtleship
successive sedimentation
swarovski-crystal
tangential-feed
thin stocked land
thirst-provoking diet
three-step design
TNV
to copy
total retrusion
triscyclopentadienyl neptunium fluoride
tube bending machines
unbesmirchable
unexpectantly
vapour tension