The 17th International Flora Expo 2024 and 17th International Landscape & Gardening Expo 2024 is scheduled to be held from 25 to 27 October 2024 at NESCO Exhibition Center, Mumbai. This exhibition series is one of its kind on the floriculture industry promoting Floral Art, Floristry, Pot Plant Production, Seeds & Planting material, Machine Supply Chain, Processed Flowers, Packaging, Decoration, Greenhouse, Vertical & Urban Farming, Irrigation and Fertigation Systems, Hydroponics and Aquaponics, Landscape & Gardening and related technologies.
This event is jointly organised by Growers Flower Council of India (GFCI) which has joined World Flower Council and actively supports the event apart from other trade bodies like iFlora, Indian Florist Association, Indian Greenhouse Manufacturers Association, Crop Care Federation of India, South India Flower Growers Association, International Flower Auction Bangalore, Indian Society of Ornamental Horticulture, Ohara Institute of Ikebana etc.
As you may be aware that Mumbai joined the Cities4Forest initiative and has signed the Call to Action for Forests and Climate, which intends to protect, conserve and manage its natural ecosystems. Mumbai is one of the major consumers of high quality Landscaping products, trees and pot plants, catering to the demand of the emerging landscape and vertical gardening industry.
The Modern Landscape Industry is booming with rapid urbanization and industrialization leading to the ongoing new projects in India. The ultra-modern infrastructure like Airports, Highways, Sport stadiums, Golf Courses, Malls, Convention Centers, Green Belts, Golf Course, Amusement Parks, Open Spaces and Residential Townships are coming up and giving new dimensions to the art of green living in Modern India.
The Indian Floriculture Industry is growing @20% annually and lots of new investments are coming in terms of new greenhouse projects, supply chain management, e-retailing and exports. Indian Floriculture enjoys the strong support of International breeders and is emerging as one of the leading exporters of tissue culture plants. Some of the popular varieties of International breeders varieties were on display by their Indian associates including Dummen Orange Marketing, Selecta, Hilvarda, VWS flower bulbs, Florist, Floricultura, Anthura, Kooij, Knost Alstroemeria, Ball Seeds, PanAmerican Seeds, Tezier, Benary, Sakata Seeds, Floranova, Kieft Seed, Syngenta Flowers, Takii Seed, Goldsmith Seeds Inc and many more.
On the retail front, you will be happy to know that in India there are almost 20,000 florists and in the last few years e-retailing of flowers has seen a jump of 35% in flower bouquet deliveries in 2nd tier cities apart from metro cities of India. We feel that there is a scope of reaching out to Indian Flower Growers through our network and penetrate in South Asian countries which is the biggest emerging market in the world.