Schools, colleges, amateurs, government, semi-government horticulture departments, private institutions, nurseries, and individuals came in large numbers to participate.
The School of Agriculture, LPU has been able to grow a wide and rare variety of flowers as part of students’ academic projects and research work. To showcase and share this rare achievement with nearby academic institutions, the School held a two-day Flower Show and Competition at the University campus, today. The show was organized under 9 classes and 97 sections to accommodate the incredible variety of flowers including Aster, Calendula, Dianthus, Nemesia, Phlox, Asparagus, and Ferns. The competitions held included flower arrangement, crotons, cut-flowers showcase, flower-ornaments, Bonsai, pot arrangement, and landscape.
Schools, colleges, amateurs, government, semi-government horticulture departments, private institutions, nurseries, and individuals came in large numbers to participate. Hundreds of prizes were distributed to the winners under different competitive titles on the concluding day of the show i.e. 21st February, 2016.
The eminent Judges for the competition were former National Consultant (Floriculture) Ministry of Commerce Dr APS Gill; Former Head of the Department of Floriculture, Punjab Agriculture University, Dr JS Arora; International Exporter for Flower & Seeds Mr Avtar Singh; SDO Horticulture PWD Mr BM Bhardwaj, Deputy Directors from Districts of Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar Mr Kulbir Singh Sandhu, Mr Naresh Kumar and Dr Satbir Singh.
Apart from educational institutions other participating agencies included Florance Flora Fans (Bangalore); Central Government of India supported all women Self Help group-Kandi Area Fruit & Herbal Processing Society; District Horticulture Departments of Punjab Government, Technocare Nursery & Garden Center (Baddowal); Earth Agro (Mohali); Tara Nursery (Chachoki); Unison Engineering (Jalandhar); Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala, and Maharaja Ranjit Singh War Memorial Phillaur.
As a fantastic variety of flowers is available during these days of the spring season, a large number of participants thronged the campus to feast their eyes on nature’s best. Ms Renu Sharma who is representing an all women Self Help Group and a House-Maker Smt Rajinder Kaur inspired girl-students at LPU to adopt medicinal flowers growth not only as a hobby but as an entrepreneurial project also.
LPU Pro- Chancellor Mrs Rashmi Mittal shared, “Our School of Agriculture has regularly been making marvelous achievements since its inception. Only a few days back it got prestigious regional and national prizes for its highly applauded project on water resource management. It also organized ‘Chrysanthemum’, a flowers’ exhibition which was inaugurated by an MP from Southall (London) UK. The present flower show and competition is along the same lines. Indirectly, this is LPU lending its voice to PM Modi’ call for a clean and green India.”
