India earns 215.27 crore rupees from flower exports


Sep 11, 11:36 AM
India earned around 215.27 crore rupees from exports of flowers to over 90 countries last year. According to the official data presented in Parliament, the country had shipped over 21845 tonnes of flowers to 93 countries during the period. 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 were exported to the USA worth 44.81 crore rupees during April-December 2010. Other leading destinations of Indian flowers shipment were Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United Arab Emirates. Indian flowers found markets even in smaller countries like Finland, St Kitts Nevis, Mali, Seychelles and Sierra Leone.