Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management

9. Information Brochures: Information brochures regarding the detailed availability
of plants, their variety, plantation techniques, care and maintenance of plants, etc
can be provided to the prospective customers.
10. Printing Catalogues: Information on plants can be made available by printing
catalogues containing detailed technical aspects. Such catalogues can be made
available through different nurseries or various input dealer shops.
� Care to be taken during Sale of Plants
1. Only those plants which belong to genuine variety and age should be made
available.
2. An invoice of bill must be provided to preserve the sanctity of transaction.
3. The rates for sale of various plants in the nursery should be reasonable and
meticulously pre-decided.
4. The supply of plants should be made based on the booking by the customers.
5. The sale of plants on credit should be discouraged by the nurserymen.
Apart from above essential points it is also important that the nursery entrepreneur
should expand his nursery enterprise based on building relationships with various
stakeholders of the nursery enterprise. The after sales service should be made an
integral part of nursery supply enterprise to expand the business.
10.2.3 Government Regulations and Support for Nursery
Availability of quality planting material is a prerequisite for the success of
horticulture development initiatives. The Nursery Registration Act is presently in force in
respect of horticulture nurseries only in the States of Punjab, Maharashtra, Himachal
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. A
system of monitoring exists for horticulture nurseries in the States of Andhra Pradesh,
Assam, Bihar, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka and Kerala while there is no horticulture nursery
act in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal.
In the absence of any formal system of quality assurance for horticulture planting
material under the Nursery Act, an assured development of horticulture cannot take place.
Although agricultural development is enlisted as a state subject in the Indian
Constitution, some of the development schemes are initiated by the Central Government.
This includes provisions and support for infrastructure for horticulture development. The
Horticulture development schemes include support for Fruit cultivation, Vegetables,
Flowers production and it invariably includes support for establishment of plant
nurseries. The support under these schemes is granted for farmers where the
conventionally the use of improved methods of plant propagation is either difficult or is
not possible due to various reasons. Various provisions of establishment of Fruit Plant
nurseries come under the control of Nursery Act promulgated by different states.
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