Data Retrieval System for Flower Crop Cultivation

Abstract

With the expansion of cities and rapid urbanization, floriculture sector has gained momentum. Flower crops is preferred by the farmers due to quick and high return per unit area. Every farmer is expected to have thorough knowledge on different flower crops and their cultivation and production aspects. Information and communication technology (ICT) can provide farmers with information pertaining to sowing, better varieties, crop protection, soil health that enables them to improve agricultural productivity. In the last decade, IT has become has become an essential part in every aspects of research. There is need to develop information system for data retrieval on flower crop development which encourage dissemination of research findings. The effectiveness of crop information system can be improved by integrating all the crop cultivation information without compromising the quality of information. In this paper, we provide information on cultivation and management practices, plant protection measures, many improved varieties/hybrid selections of flower crops developed at ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru which are popular among the flower growers in the country. The Institute undertakes multi-disciplinary research and extensively participate in the post graduate education programme and has MOU with reputed universities for imparting higher education in the field of horticultural sciences. This web based data retrieval system for flower crop will provide useful information for farmers, students and other entrepreneurs on different flower crops for obtaining higher yield and income