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KUMILY: Thousands of people including students and foreign tourists visited the Thekkady Flower Show here on Sunday.
The show, being organised by the Thekkady Agri-Horticultural Society, will end on Tuesday. Sunday, being a holiday, the venue witnessed huge crowds. About 150 varieties of flower plants are on show.
Various cultural programmes are being organised every day in connection with the flower show which is being held for the third consecutive year.
T. T. Thomas, a convener of the programme, said that nearly 50 foreigners witnessed the cultural programmes on Saturday and some of them were keen to collect details of the medicinal plants on show and the curing capabilities of them.
?All the flower plants arranged this year are grown in Kumily and the aim of the programme is to make people aware of the natural beauty given by the plants. There is also a need for protecting the medicinal plants and we spread the message of how they can cure some health problems,? he said.
A few of the medicinal plants exhibited here are exclusively grown in deep forests and endemic to the region. They have to be preserved in its natural surroundings, said Reji T. Thomas, a botanist and convener of the exhibition committee. A 12-minute documentary on medicinal plants directed by him and produced by the Mannaratharayil Botanical Garden is also on show.
Mr. Thomas said that people are not aware of the beauty and serenity given out by the natural colours of flowers and almost all the varieties of flower plants are grown in the climatic conditions of the high ranges. What is needed is an aptitude and taste for growing them as the residential places in the district are not as congested when compared to the neighbouring districts.
A seminar on a bio-gas unit at a cost of Rs. 2,000 and a meeting of organic farmers formed part of the flower show on Sunday. A Perumkaliyattom show, seminar on ?climatic changes: its global and local impact? and a film show ?An Inconvenient Truth? will form part of the programmes on Monday and Tuesday.
The flower show is being held in association with the district, block and grama panchayats, the Kerala Forest Department, the Periyar Foundation, the Tourism Department and the Idukki District Tourism Promotion Council.
The show, being organised by the Thekkady Agri-Horticultural Society, will end on Tuesday. Sunday, being a holiday, the venue witnessed huge crowds. About 150 varieties of flower plants are on show.
Various cultural programmes are being organised every day in connection with the flower show which is being held for the third consecutive year.
T. T. Thomas, a convener of the programme, said that nearly 50 foreigners witnessed the cultural programmes on Saturday and some of them were keen to collect details of the medicinal plants on show and the curing capabilities of them.
?All the flower plants arranged this year are grown in Kumily and the aim of the programme is to make people aware of the natural beauty given by the plants. There is also a need for protecting the medicinal plants and we spread the message of how they can cure some health problems,? he said.
A few of the medicinal plants exhibited here are exclusively grown in deep forests and endemic to the region. They have to be preserved in its natural surroundings, said Reji T. Thomas, a botanist and convener of the exhibition committee. A 12-minute documentary on medicinal plants directed by him and produced by the Mannaratharayil Botanical Garden is also on show.
Mr. Thomas said that people are not aware of the beauty and serenity given out by the natural colours of flowers and almost all the varieties of flower plants are grown in the climatic conditions of the high ranges. What is needed is an aptitude and taste for growing them as the residential places in the district are not as congested when compared to the neighbouring districts.
A seminar on a bio-gas unit at a cost of Rs. 2,000 and a meeting of organic farmers formed part of the flower show on Sunday. A Perumkaliyattom show, seminar on ?climatic changes: its global and local impact? and a film show ?An Inconvenient Truth? will form part of the programmes on Monday and Tuesday.
The flower show is being held in association with the district, block and grama panchayats, the Kerala Forest Department, the Periyar Foundation, the Tourism Department and the Idukki District Tourism Promotion Council.