Enhancing Productivity of Flowers in Periurban Lahore (2008 - 2011)
Budget: Rs. 25.708 million

Objectives

• To Popularize improved floriculture production technology
• To Provide new germplasm/varieties of conventional floriculture crops to the interested growers
• To Enhance and Maintain important commercial flowering plant in Green House and open field.
• To Motivate the farmers for production of high value floriculture crops through Farmer Field School System
• To enhance area of flowering plants & to reduce pollution
• To increase the farmers income through floricultural crops.

Accomplishments

Year 1

• Purchase of benches, chairs, class room tables, stools, black board and almerah
• Purchase of power sprayer, hand sprayer, lawn movers, wheek barrows, spades, chua ramba, khurpa, swords, watering pipes, watering cans and budding knives etc
• Purchase of two deep freezers
• Printing of pamphlets for trainees
• Acquiring of two acres of Govt. land in Kala Shah Kako
• Survey of FFS schools for trainees

Year 2

• Recruitment of the contractual staff as per Govt. Policy
• Organizing seminars on flower production to document the related work done in Pakistan and establish bench mark
• Development of two acres model nursery farm, green house, store, chowkidar hut, reservoir, fencing of the area nd irrigation system
• Procurement of motor bikes, machinary and equipements, planting materials and other commoditites
• Purchase of Mobile Floriculture Diagnostic Lab and Refer Container