Pulwama’s Own Tulip Garden: A Big Step Toward Indigenous Tulip Production in J&K It is a big developmental effort by CSIR in Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir to take up the production and indegenisation of Tulip bulbs for mass scale production of quality planting material. It is a great joy for Pulwama district to have a Tulip garden, said a man in Pulwama. There is one Tulip Garden in Srinagar. Today, Pulwama has its own Tulip Garden. I want to tell everyone to come to Pulwama and enjoy the Tulip Graden here, said one girl student who had come on a school trip. She said she was grateful to the Government for granting permission to Holy International School for a tour of the Tulip Garden in Pulwama. Under the CSIR initiative, it was a big project launced by the Honourable Science & Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in 2020. Under his leadership we had taken an initiative to transform floriculture in the entire country. Through the same transformational focus, our initiative was to make efforts in the indigenization of Tulips in Pulwama, said an official. Every year the 15 lakh tulips that we see in Srinagar Tulip Garden are also imported by the J&K Government. In India, tulips are imported on a large scale from Holland which costs Rs. 25-30 crore annually. Hence, CSIR thought of developing a sustainable ecosystem so that India can produce and grow indigenous tulip bulbs for the growth of the Floriculture sector. Hence, Kashmir Valley was leveraged to grow indigenous tulips for local requirements and after self sufficiency the aim is to look at doing export of tulips to other countries. We started work of propagating and multiplying indegenous tulips since 2022, and in three years, around 1 lakh tulip bulbs are blooming, said an official in Pulwama