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The Agri-Horticultural Society offers a variety of courses and solution to problems you encounter in home gardening as well as for commercial purposes, says Swathi V.
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Popular: Plants being tended to at the Agri-Horticultural Society in Hyderabad.
Any new enterprise brings along a great deal of enthusiasm and a little trepidation. Gardening is no exception. Right from the moment of planting a seed, any gardener ‘worth his/her soil’ is bound to encounter many situations where a single decision can make the garden survive or perish. Situations that make one wonder if any sort of training or consultation is available in crucial aspects of gardening. The Agri-Horticultural Society with its training and consu
ltation services comes in handy for such desperate souls.
Located inside the Public Gardens, the Society offers a variety of courses through its School of Gardening. They include Bonsai cultivation, growing medicinal plants, home gardening and growing roses and other flowering plants. Also on offer are other courses of utility such as Ikebana and flower arrangement, vegetable carving, pickle making, and processing and preservation of fruits and vegetables. Within two to three days of duration, the courses aim to familiarise the student with vital aspects of the subject.
“We trained 1,000 students last year in different courses. This number is in exclusion of the Gardeners’ Training Programme that we have,” says B.R. Kurdukar, retired Additional Director of Horticulture and presently a trainer at the Society.
Malis in demand
Gardeners’ Training Programme is designed exclusively for mentoring professional gardeners and is of six months duration. Two batches each of 25 students are trained every year with a stipend of Rs.800 per month per candidate granted from the Central Government.
“None of the 500-odd malis we trained is idle today. It is our practice to keep a register for mali requisitions. Those who need malis may leave their name, address and telephone number in the register, and malis in need of work can check the register and contact them. Nowadays, the demand for malis has gone up so steeply that we are burdened with too many entries and none to serve them,” says M. Anantha Reddy, Chairman of the Society.
The Society was sponsored by the Department of Agriculture in 1953 to promote and popularise horticultural activities by assisting home gardeners, farmers and others. Apart from retired employees from the department, the Society has farmers and nursery men as members.
It also offers the services of consultation and supply of garden inputs. While Department of Horticulture takes care of supply of flowering plants, the Society trades in fruit plants.
On sale are vermi-wash, and pot mixture in a convenient package of 40 kg.
A diagnostic centre where pest and disease problems and nutritional disorders could be analysed, and a library that holds a rich collection of books, bulletins and journals are additional features of the Society.One may contact the Agri Horticultural Society at 040-23299779 or visit personally between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on all days except Mondays and government holidays.
V. Swathi, Hyderabad
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