Floriculture is the cultivation and management of flowering and ornamental plants for garden display, cut flowers, potted plants, and for personal enjoyment. It involves understanding how to maximize flower bud and bloom production through optimizing plant nutrition, irrigation, lighting, and pest management. Floriculture is an important industry in Pakistan, though it currently only makes up 0.5% of the agricultural sector. It provides economic benefits through employment, exports, and industries that use cut flowers. Floriculture also has social and aesthetic importance by beautifying environments and being incorporated into cultural traditions and events. Common challenges faced by floriculturists include a lack of quality planting materials, poor post-harvest handling, and inadequate infrastructure and market support.

2. Floriculture:

3. contents
What is floriculture?
Floral industry in Pakistan
Importance of floriculture
Economic importance
Social importance
Aesthetic importance
Classification
Problems and their solutions
Conclusion

4. INTRODUCTION:
 Basic division of horticulture.
Concerned with the cultivation of
flowering and ornamental plants for
gardens.
 Deals with plants and their layout for
beautification of the environment .
 it refers to the plant care, propagation
and cultivation with one goal in
mind(maximum production of flower
buds and flowers).

5. It is an entire gardening spectrum that is
geared towards:
Understanding and improving all aspects
of bud and flower creation.
Including indoor lighting, greenhouse
needs, plant nutrition, irrigation, pest
management, and breeding new
cultivars.
The goal of floriculture is always to
improve the plant so:
It yield larger buds.
More abundant buds.
Optimal flowering time.

6. Pakistan as an agricultural
country and floriculture
Horticulture
as
subsector
constitutes
11% in it
Agricultural
sector
constitutes
21.4% of
total
country’s
GDP Floricultural
sector
occupies
only 0.5%of
it

7. FLORAL INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN
 Floral industry in Pakistan is flourishing
day by day because of increasing demand.
 Plants are growing in big cities like:
 Karachi,Hyderabad,Lahore,
Rawalpindi,Islamabad and Multan etc but
to a little extent.
 Pattoki is the major centre of floriculture
business.
 Almost 1 million cut flowers are export
from Pattoki to all parts of the country at
daily basis.

8. Some industries based on floriculture:
 Cut flower industries
 Dry flower industries
 Perfumery industries
 Decoration industries
 Oil extracting industries
 Dyeing industries
 Pharmaceutical industries etc

9. IMPORTANCE OF FLORICULTURE
 Floriculture is important from the
following point of view.
 Economic point of view:
 Social point of view.
 Aesthetic point of view.

10. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE.
 Floriculture is a fast emerging major
venture in the world especially as a
potential money spinner for many
third world country.
 Many flowers and ornamental plant
are being grown for domestic as well
as for export will provide more
return unit area than any other
agricultural crop.

11. It generates self employment, opportunities
round the year.
Also used for making dry flowers extraction
of natural colors and essential oils.
It also provides service carrier opportunities
which includes such jobs such as floral
designers , architects ,landscape designers.
More than 3 Lac hectare are under floral
production in different countries of the world
Presently more than 145 countries are
involved in flowers production on commercial
scale.

12. SOCIAL IMPORTANCE.
 Flower symbolize the purity, beauty, peace,
love, adoration.
 Passion are used to express feelings.
 In our society no social function is complete
without the use of flowers.
 Floral garlands, gajras are required in marriage
ceremonies for adornments' of hair by women.
 It is estimated that more than 30 to 40% of the
total flower production are used for decoration
and ornamental purposes.

13. AESTHETIC IMPORTANCE:
 Ornamental plants are a source of major
attraction for many gardens.
 The aesthetic use of plants is a unique feature of
floriculture which is also distinguishing it from
other agricultural activity.
 Flowers being the first for creating aesthetic
essence , they are used in landscaping , home
gardens parks and recreational places etc..
 Bright colors are used to treat certain anxiety,
depression disorders.

14.  Open breathing place through bio aesthetic
planning and landscape gardening can expect
to build up healthy society and prosper
nation.
 In short floriculture with its aesthetic value is
best for therapies as well as health promotion.

15. Floral plants and their classification:
 Floral plants are classified on the basis of
there decorative values:
 Bedding plants.
 Pot plants or house plants.
 Cut flowers.
 Lawn grasses.
 Evergreen plants.

16. BEDDING PLANTS:
 These are grown for
the purpose of
decorating and filling
in the garden
spaces.
 Examples: poppy,
sunflower, bengonia
chrysanthemum,
gladiolus

18. Cut flowers:
 These are the
flowers that have
been cut from the
plant bearing it and
are used for
decorative purposes
 Examples: sweat
pea,lily,tulip,roses

20. Lawn grasses:
 An area of soil covered land planted with
grass is called lawn and the grass is known
as lawn grass.
 Examples:creeping thyme,lippia,bahia grass

22. Pot plants:
 These are those plants that are grown indoor
for decorative purposes.
 Examples: ficus, begonia, aloevera , helix

23. PROBLEMS IN FLOWER
PRODUCTION:
 It is difficulty of a farmer to obtain quality
plants in the desired variety.
 Availability of appropriate facilities for
harvest and post-harvest management.
 Imbalance fertilizer application.
 Non availability of sufficient amount of
water in accordance to its need.
 Low productivity and high cost of
production.

24. Inadequate market information.
Difficulty in obtaining a suitable
land.
Lack of irrigation facilities.
 Lack of appropriate packaging for
floriculture produce.
Lack of well established
information data.

25. SOLUTIONS TO THESE
PROBLEMS:
 Establishment of model nurseries for
supplying genuine planting material.
 Cooperation florist organization should be
established at regional level.
 Training centers for diploma course for training
the personnel in floriculture should be setup.
 There should be plan and monitors effective
quality control measures right from production
to post harvesting , storage and transportation.

26. Conclusion:
Floriculture is a most important and broad parts of
horticulture. As Floriculture deals with the culture of
flowers and ornamental plants, it has great importance in
our daily life as well as national economy.

27. References:
 http://www.pakissan.com/english/issues/Flor
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 https://www.maximumyield.com/definition/4
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floriculture
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