Estimation of area, production and productivity of flowers in Delhi

Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute conducted a study entitled "Pilot sample survey to develop sampling methodology far estimation of area, production and productivity of important flowers on the basis of market arrivals" to meet the requirement of reliable estimates on area and production of flowers based on the statistical methods with the objective to develop precise estimates of the area, production and productivity of flowers in Delhi. In this paper, the data collected in the flower growing villages of Delhi has been utilized for estimation of area, production and productivity of flowers. The sampling design for estimation of area under floriculture in flower growing villages of Delhi is one of stratified random sampling with villages as the sampling units. For estimating production of important flowers on the basis of village survey, the sampling design adopted is stratified two stage random sampling with villages as first stage sampling units and farmers growing flowers as the second stage sampling units. The estimates of area were 442.59 ha and 2583.28 ha under cut and loose flowers respectively in Delhi. The total estimated area under both flowers was 3025.87 ha. As a whole, 85.37% of the area under loose flowers while 14.63% under cut flowers is estimated in Delhi. The estimate of production of cut flowers in the villages of Delhi was of the tune of 733.41170 lakh with 3.54% SE. The estimated production of loose flowers was reported as 17728.7 MT with 4.09% SE. The estimates of productivity of loose and cut flowers was of the order of 6863 kg/ha and.148034 number/ha. It may be pointed out that the above study conducted for estimating area, production and productivity of flowers in Delhi is first of its kind. Although the results obtained in this study are encouraging but the methodology developed by us for. estimating area, production and productivity of flowers needs to be tested in some other states before it can be recommended for adoption.