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Rozina Babar is at the heart of the new and thriving floriculture business that has come up in Pakistan\u2019s Gilgit-Baltistan region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFlowers are a childhood love,\u201d Babar said, recalling how enthusiastically she would participate in floral decoration at the Jamat Khana \u2014 the place of worship of the Shiite Ismaili community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is this passion which compelled Babar to pursue a career in flower decoration after she completed her Masters from the Karakoram University. But she realised in the early days that it would not be an easy task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter training from the agriculture department, now 450 women from 22 different organisations are working on floriculture in the Gilgit Baltistan region.\u201d<\/blockquote>Ghulam Ullah Saqib<\/cite><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

At the time farmers in the region never thought of planting flowers for commercial purposes. Flower cultivation was not understood to have any commercial value and often men thought the flower trade was beneath them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a man and have to deal with strong crops like wheat, maize and potatoes yields,\u201d said Rashid, a farmer from a small village near Gilgit.<\/p>\n

Babar recalled how, in those early days, \u201cmany male farmers would laugh at us and predict failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Flowers being packaged for sale [image by: Rozina Babar]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, the story is very different. Babar runs a successful flower cultivation business, in which she employs 76 women and makes an adequate revenue by selling flowers grown on just 1,800 square yards (1,505 square metres) of land.<\/p>\n

A success story<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the days before she began her own cultivation Babar said the lack of a flower business in the region meant that she would order shipments from bigger cities like Lahore or Islamabad if she wanted to make floral decorations for events. This not only added to overall costs but also took time, as the suppliers often took up to 20 hours to deliver the shipment.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Babar approached the agriculture department of Gilgit-Baltistan with a business proposal and asked for support. Her idea inspired the department and officials asked her to select a group of women to train for flower cultivation. The department provided 80,000 gladiolus bulbs for the women to kick-off the project. With this, Babar began the experiment and used her own land for cultivation. If it had failed, she would be the only one to suffer a major loss.<\/p>\n

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A saffron flower in bloom [image by: Ghulam Ullah Saqib]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ghulam Ullah Saqib, the deputy director of the agriculture research centre in Shigar district who heads the project on the government end, said the experiment flourished as Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) is an \u201cideal region\u201d for floriculture. Low rainfall and moderate temperature support flower cultivation, conditions which G-B witnesses from March till October.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisasters related to climate change have badly affected the seasonal crops of the Karakoram region. There is a serious need to reset our agricultural calendar and also to opt for new crops, especially those which are harvested earlier or later after the cultivation season,\u201d Saqib told thethirdpole.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also emphasised on the advantage of farming flowers, a low-risk crop which grows in 90 days. \u201cFlowers are less expensive cash crops and give better returns than the potato and other regional crops.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Saqib one 605 square yard (505 square metre) field of potatoes yields a profit of USD 130, whereas harvesting gladiolus in the same area earns USD 520.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter training from the agriculture department, now 450 women from 22 different organisations are working on floriculture in the Gilgit Baltistan region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As the demand for flowers is not high in G-B, 80% of the flowers are exported to bigger cities like Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad where demand is considerably higher. Depending on the size of their land, women earn an average of PKR 25,000 (USD 157) to PKR 80,000 (USD 500) per month through the cultivation and sale of flowers. It has transformed lives as some of the women farmers who had been deprived of opportunities due to a lack of education or an inability to travel for other jobs.<\/p>\n

For export to other cities, flowers are packed in cartons with 100 sticks in each box. A bus service charges PKR 200-300 (USD 1.26-1.90) per box in order to transport them to Islamabad or Lahore. During the Eid and wedding season, flowers sell for twice the average price of PKR 25 (USD 0.16) per stick. Babar\u2019s group exported 50,000 sticks in 2019 alone.<\/p>\n

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Gladiolus flower field near Shiger [image by: Ghulam Mohiuddin]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shahida is one of the 50 women who cultivate flowers in Rahimabad, a village situated about 50 kilometres from Gilgit. While she was primarily a schoolteacher, Shahida decided to join the floral industry for extra income last year. Initially, she cultivated flowers on a small piece of land and surprisingly earned PKR 30,000 (USD 190). The returns inspired her to grow her business, and she now spends after-school hours tending to her fields. Shahida is confident that her income from the flower business will help her complete her Master\u2019s degree in sociology from the Allama Iqbal Open University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mobeeka, another flower grower, said that cultivating flowers is better than potatoes, as the latter are hard to harvest. \u201cFlowers need attention from seeding to harvesting but are not physically as tough as other crops,\u201d she said. Wheat, maize and potatoes are difficult for women to handle as cutting crops, carrying big bales of crops, and digging potatoes from the soil are strenuous activities. \u201cThese crops are harvested in the hot summer season, so staying the whole day in the field isn\u2019t an easy job for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main challenge for women farmers at present is the lack of opportunities in the local market. According to Babar, currently they only manage to get a few contracts for decoration at government and NGO events as locals prefer not to have flowers at their events. Babar is the main supplier of flowers at Serena Hotel in Gilgit, but the demand of the region\u2019s hotel industry is far behind that of a booming tourism industry.<\/p>\n

The CEO of Sustainable Tourism Foundation, Aftab Rana, seconded Babar\u2019s claim that small hotels don\u2019t use flowers for decoration. To boost the local market and also uplift the hotel sector, the foundation is working with the National Tourism Coordination Board (NTCB) to create the \u2018national minimum standard for tourism and hospitality\u2019 which will categorise hotels in the area. Based on these categories, the standards will be set for local hotels and service. Interior decoration of the rooms will be one of the main criteria. Babar hopes this will help the flower industry.<\/p>\n

Babar and her fellow women farmers have already established a new business in G-B \u2014 and they are not going to stop here. They hope to expand the market to include flower-based perfumes and cosmetics. They are in the process of asking the G-B government for a cold storage facility where extra harvest can be kept. Having worked their way up, their future looks as bright as some of the flowers they now raise and sell.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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