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Horticulture show evokes good response

FLOWERY MARVEL: A Nandi ornamented with more than 20,000 Dutch roses and orchids greets visitors at the Golden Jubilee Horticulture-Floriculture Exhibition in Belgaum on Tuesday.

Belgaum: The three-day Golden Jubilee Horticulture-Floriculture Exhibition-2008 being held on the Beynon Smith College Grounds here has evoked good response from horticulturists, floriculturists and manufacturers of horticulture and floriculture products.

The exhibition is being conducted by the Belgaum District Horticulture Society and the Department of Horticulture.

Deputy Director of Horticulture K.B. Dundi said the event is the largest horticulture exhibition ever held in the district. It provides a unique platform to the horticulture sector, right from the grower to the retailer, the manufacturer to the consumer and the trader as well.

More than 260 exhibitors are participating in the event. The exhibits include horticulture and floriculture products, besides equipment used in their operations.

Some of the important participants are manufacturers of mini-tractors for gardening, soil softeners, lawn-mowers, watering equipments, hoses, saws, clippers, spades, rakes, wheelbarrows, nets, foils, green houses, garden accessories, awnings, vases for plants and floral arrangements, composts and fertilizers, grass, seeds for flowers and ornamental plants, herbicides and insecticides.

A magnificent Nandi fabricated with steel pipes and ornamented with Dutch roses and orchids by a Bangalore-based landscape designer, Kalidas Raj, greet the visitors here. An added attraction is a mini Japanese landscape designed and structured within 24 hours by Belgaum-based Ikebana specialist and Director of Ratnashree Gardens and Landscape Designers, Krishna G. Chavan.

Mr. Chavan has also put on display a few samples of Ikebana, a Japanese art of arrangement of flowers.

The exhibition has attracted a large number of farmers, besides women and interior designers.

Prakash K., Director of Yash Communications, which has organised the event, said that he was overwhelmed with the response.

Entry is free. The objective of the exhibition is to create awareness on horticulture.

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