The Punjab government is finalising necessary arrangement for lunching a well-knitted plan for the promotion and developing of rose farms for producing of top quality of grafted especially roses across the Punjab. The Punjab and other parts of the country naturally possesses a great potential for producing quality roses due to rich resource local soil provides ideal agronomic conditions for the production of flowers.

Official sources told Business Recorder on Sunday that currently low quality of roses were being cultivated and sold in domestic market as well as exported to Middle East countries from Pakistan. The concept of this proposed plan was to promote floriculture and to produce high quality grafted roses for enhancing the radius of export to European countries. Under the plan special attention would be focused on cultivating red roses keeping in view the global demand especially European countries.

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