Kadri Park: Fruit and vegetable show gets underway tomorrow

Mangalore, March 28: The Horticulture Fepartment , DK, Zilla Panchayath, and Mangalore City Corporation are jointly organizing a fruit and vegetable exhibition as part of the 'Horticulture Year' 2011-12.

The exhibition will be held at Kadri Park from March 30 till April 1 for three days. The inauguration will take place on Friday at 4.30 pm.

With contributions from the department, government projects, contributions from organizations and support from the public the art of gardening and activities related to gardening will be spread amongst the public. Ideas on keeping our environment clean and green will be discussed and showcased. Ideas like environmental protection, beautification of city, public awareness on gardening will be the motive of this exhibition, said Dr S Nanda, Deputy Director, Horticulture Department.

Also present at the press meet were Joe Pradeep D Souza, Senior Assistant Director, State Horticulture department, Laxmi Rao Aroor, president of Siri Horticulture and K Nemiraj Konde, Joint Secretary.

As part of the exhibition flowers of various types, decorative plants, medicinal plants, and different vegetables will be exhibited. Vegetables which are cut in various artistic fashions, flower arrangements, artistic horticultural activities will be on display at the exhibition. Sand Sculpture, pottery and other art forms will also be part of the show. There will be 31 varieties of vegetables, 29 varieties of flowers and 90 varieties of medicinal plants.

This year a flower arrangement show titled “ Festivals of India” will be an added attraction. Four festivals namely Diwali, Ramzan , Christmas and Holi will be showcased through flowers as part of the festival. The Hotels and Restaurants Association has joined hands with the department to organize 'Food Fest' for three days. So the public can enjoy both food and flowers at the same time. Cultural programmes will be arranged on the first two days. The exhibition will have information on Nurseries, Equipments used in Horticulture, Medicinal plants and Flowers and Fruits of exotic nature. In this exhibition public can get an exposure to different kinds of gardening methods and forms of decorative plants and flowers. Plants grown by different farmers from across the district will be collected and exhibited.