Flower Business Shrikant, a farmer from Telangana, has achieved tremendous success through flower farming. Today they do an annual business of Rs 70 crore. However, there was a time when he used to work for others at a monthly salary of one thousand rupees. His childhood was spent in poverty but through strong courage, today he is a successful farmer.

Crores of rupees of employment can also be generated from flower farming and people can be given employment. All it takes is courage and passion to work hard. Born and brought up in a farmer family in Nizamabad district of Telangana, Srikanth has proved this. There was a time when Srikanth Bollapalli was working at his relative’s house in Bengaluru at a monthly salary of Rs 1000.

Today, Srikanth does a business of Rs 70 crore in a year. Not only this, today he is employing 200 people and his network is spread across the country. However, he has not achieved this success in a day.

Born in a traditional farmer family, Srikant’s childhood was spent in extreme poverty. But he wanted to get himself out of it. This is the reason that today his hard work has paid off and his flower farming in 52 acres is flourishing. But his path to reach here was not so easy. Srikant told ‘The Better India’ that his childhood was spent in poverty. Born in a farmer family, he was always in debt. To get out of this, he wanted to study but after 10th, his parents said that now they do not have money to educate him.

At the age of 16, he went to Bengaluru to live with a relative to provide financial support to his poverty-stricken family. There he started helping his relative in flower farming and related business. For this he used to get one thousand rupees per month. Srikanth says that the money he was being given was very less but he had no option.After working there for a year, Shrikant gained complete knowledge about flower cultivation and also its marketing. After this he saw that there were immense possibilities of success in the field of flower farming

Flower Farming

Seeing this, he decided to do something of his own with full courage and courage. Without any financial help from anyone, he started buying flowers from farmers and trading them with very little capital. After this, in 1997 he opened a small flower shop in Bangalore city. He ran this shop for about 10 years.Although the profits were good, he still had a desire to do something big. He wanted to cultivate flowers. He had contacts related to flower business. Therefore, thinking that he would not face any problem in flower cultivation, Srikant decided to take up flower cultivation.

Srikant Started With 10 Acres

However, his decision was full of challenges and the first challenge was of capital. The investment per acre in flower farming is higher than traditional farming. The investment is higher and hence the risk is also higher. Although Srikanth had some savings. For further assistance he contacted the National Horticulture Board. He invested all his savings and started flower farming in 10 acres of land, which has now increased to 52 acres. Srikant says that the difficulties he was facing while setting up the farm are no more. Now the situation has changed. Now everyone wants to come forward to help.

Srikant Expand Farming in 52 Acres

Today, Srikanth cultivates 12 types of flowers in his 52-acre farm near Doddaballapura, Bengaluru. These flowers include roses, gerberas, carnations, gypsophila and other flowers which are grown organically in greenhouses and polyhouses. At the age of 40, Srikanth is earning handsome profits from his flower farming venture. With clients from across the country, Srikanth works with a team of over 200 people from rural Karnataka to turn over Rs 70 crore a year.

Organic Farming

Srikant says that he tries his best to do organic and sustainable farming. Therefore, whatever remains left after harvesting the flowers, they make vermicompost and then use it in the fields. He says that most of the youth now do not come into farming thinking about profit and loss. But if you work hard in the right way and in the right path then good money can be earned in this industry also. Similar hard work is required in flower farming. Only then you get good success.