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Value Addition: Dehydration of Flowers and Foliage and Floral Craft

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Floriculture and Ornamental Plants

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More than three fourth of the export basket of Indian floricultural products comprises of dry flowers and different handmade items made from botanical specimens, presented in a dried and colored form. With the increasing awareness for natural ecofriendly products, dried flowers have attained prime importance in the floriculture industry. It constitutes nearly 15% of the global floriculture business, and considering the present COVID-19-related pandemic situation, dry flower industry is going to become more relevant. At present, the industry relies substantially on gathering of flowers from the wild and drying those using conventional methods. However, some fresh flowers are also converted into dry flowers for better returns, including chrysanthemum, dahlias, marigold, jute flowers, wood roses, lotus pods, and lilies among others. Over 70 lakh people, mostly in rural areas, earn their livelihood from production of handicrafts and related activities through low capital investment. Dry flowers and plant materials have tremendous potential as substitute for fresh flowers and foliage for interior decoration as well as for a variety of other aesthetic and commercial uses. This chapter provides all relevant and latest information, which could be helpful in drawing the attention of the researchers and scientists to work on it. Besides the entrepreneurs would be directly benefitted by utilizing the knowledge reviewed in this paper and expected to contribute a lot to the country’s economy.

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  1. AICRP on Floriculture, Dept. of Post Harvest Technology, F/Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Suhrita Chakrabarty (Das)

  2. ‘G’, Floriculture Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    S. K. Datta

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    Youdh Chand Gupta

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Chakrabarty (Das), S., Datta, S.K. (2021). Value Addition: Dehydration of Flowers and Foliage and Floral Craft. In: Datta, S.K., Gupta, Y.C. (eds) Floriculture and Ornamental Plants. Handbooks of Crop Diversity: Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1554-5_21-1

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