Present status of research on floriculture in India

Extensive research has already been done in India to generate basic knowledge on multidisciplinary aspects of floricultural crops. Our floriculture got an early lead and substantial gains in some areas. Our contribution in germplasm collections, characterisation, cytology, crop improvement and induced mutation are worth mentioning. But our contribution in the frontier areas of research in floriculture is very few. Despite significant technological advances, we are still repeating some of our experiments as routine activities. We can stop some of our routine activities and can prepare a need-based planning considering on-going and on-coming research areas in floriculture. We can slowly try to diversify each activity keeping in view the modern developments. We may plan our activities in such a way that we must be pioneers in some frontiers of floriculture research and well recognised in the floriculture world. There is need to take deep interest to apply modern technology for the futuristic studies in floriculture.