Nursery Plants

 Basic Requirements for Starting a Plant Nursery in India

Any business start-up cannot start with passion and an idea only. One has to deal with many problems and challenges too. So, to cope with the problems, one should have a high level of leadership skills with a clear understanding of the market, excellent communication skills, maturity to see things from the right perspective along with the ability to take calculated risks are required on part of the entrepreneur.

1. Why Plant Nursery?
If you love gardening and love to be surrounded by flowers and plants or want to live your life in a beautiful environment with a sufficient amount of earnings then the Plant Nursery business is a wise idea to go with. Over time plant nurseries have established themselves as a profitable business plan due to their growing demand. The competition is always higher for any business, but if one believes in only concern of quality, then everything will fall into its place.

2. What is a Plant Nursery?
A nursery is a place, where seedlings, saplings, trees, shrubs and other plant materials are grown and maintained until they are placed in a permanent place. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries, which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries, which supply the needs of institutions or private estates.

3. Types of Plant Nurseries
On the basis of business, size, area, and plant type. etc. too many categorizations of plant nurseries are there but as here we are sharing with you the basic plant nursery concept, we categorise plant nurseries into the following:

1. Flower and Foliage Nurseries
2. Vegetable Nurseries
3. Fruit Nurseries
4. Medicinal Nurseries
5. Forest Nurseries

1. Flower and Foliage Nurseries or Ornamental Plants Nursery
This is one of the most common and beautiful nurseries that one can plant on a piece of land. By having a Flower nursery, you do not just contribute to the beauty of nature and catch people’s hearts with the beautiful flowers, but you also earn by selling them, as flowers are in huge demand in the market. If you are growing rare and high-demand flowers in your nursery, this would scale your sales.

2. Vegetable Nursery
Vegetable seedlings are multiplied in vegetable nurseries. The modern vegetable nursery provides grafted vegetable seedlings.

3. Fruit Nurseries
It is the most popular type of Nursery that is opted by many business owners. The quality of fruits grown on organic land or rather nurseries is way higher than those grown on regular farms. It would require you to have good patience and continuous care for maintaining these nurseries, however, the returns that you receive in the end are totally worth the efforts. Such nurseries are propagating improved varieties of fruit crops both major and minor crops.

4. Medicinal Plants Nurseries
Needless to say, with the increasing number of diseases and the awareness as well as the need for medicines, having a medicinal plants nursery can also be helpful for people fighting life-threatening diseases. Medicinal plants such as Aloe vera, tulsi, asparagus, Aswagandha etc do not require much care for raising their nurseries in the field as well as in plants. Medicinal plant nurseries are having good business due to pandemics like corona.

5. Forest Nurseries
In these types of nurseries, saplings are grown, for raising forests and having roadside plantations among others. Forest plant nurseries are different from fruit plant nurseries. Saplings of trees such as eucalyptus, pine, oak, and teak are grown in forest nurseries. One can decide on picking one or more of the above types depending on available land and resources.