Kaligandaki Rural Municipality of Syangja has sold marigold flowers worth Rs. 1.5 million in Tihar festival this year. The rural municipality has collected flowers produced by farmers within the rural municipality and supplied them to various markets of the district as well as Palpa, Kaski, Rupandehi and other districts.
JHAPA: Farmers engaged with commercial farming of marigold flowers in the district have been worried after they did not get an adequate market for their product. The flower that is left after Tihar and Chhath festivals is getting wilted. Dal Bahadur Adhikari from Birtamod municipality-9 had cultivated marigold flowers in more than one bighas of […]
Tihar is the festival of flowers and lights. So the flower famers are busy picking marigold and amaranth, as the demand of flowers surges during Tihar.
KATHMANDU: Marigold [Sayapatri] flowers have special significance during the festival of Tihar.
Marigold is mainly used for making garlands during the Tihar festival. Sisters put flower garlands around their brothers’ necks during Bhai Tika, the most special day of the five-day festival.
People also decorate their houses with flowers, especially marigolds, during the festival.
Meanwhile, a Marigold garden in Birendranagar of Surkhet is popular these days. Scores of people visit the site not only to buy flowers for the festival but also to take photos and videos.
Managed by Karnali Agromart Private Limited, the garden has at least 1,200 marigold plants.
As it is the festive season, the garden is selling hundreds of kilograms of flowers a day. A kg of flower sells at Rs 400. They also sell a garland at Rs 150.
Here are some photos taken at the garden.
A woman fills a basket with marigold flowers from a field to sell in the markets ahead of the Tihar festival on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal on Monday.
Farmers in Tanahun have been worried after the marigold in their farm bloomed weeks before the arrival of Tihar festival.
They are worried as the flowers planted for the Tihar festival started blooming before Dashain and began drying almost two weeks before the Tihar festival.
The farmers have said that the flowers have blossomed earlier because of the high temperature even during the time when it should have been cold and excess rains.
Govinda Adhikari of Aroudi in Bhimad Municipality-8, who has been cultivating flowers commercially, said that the flowers that should have bloomed during the Tihar festival bloomed before Dashain this season.
