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Introduction
The nursery business survey is the first step in continuation of on initiating th
activities for related to the sixth agreed proposal on “successful seedling nursery
business to set up small rural enterprises for women in Sindh and Punjab”.
In this regard, a survey was conducted in selected areas of Sindh. Main features of the
nursery business are describe in the report. One important finding is that the ruralIt was
found that women participation in nursery business is almost none non-existant. all the
business activities are done by malesMales do all the nursery related cultural practices,
which is may be due to the nature of the nursery business in the Lower Sindh
provinceregion.
Objectives
1) To Uunderstand the current supply chain of seeding nursery businesses
2) To Uunderstand the reasons behind success and impediments to success.
3) Based on the result from 1) and 2) To evaluate the financial and practical feasibility to
develop seedling nursery business in the selected village of SVVCP based on the
result from 1) and 2)
Methodology
The research adopted a mixed approach to get the information. Key informant in-depth
interviews were conducted by the purposively randomly selected nursery owners. Total A
total of 5 samples were interviewed during this survey. The tool used was an open-ended
questionnaire focusing on the production and marketing aspects of the nursery business.
Research Findings
In this report, research the findings are reported in the manner in which questions were
asked. However, a detailed analysis of the findings may also be done on the basis of primary
data.
4. Growing media
All of the interviewed nurseries, use normal land soil is used as growing media for the
nursery. None of the repondant using any nursery growing media
7. Mortality rate
When asked about mortality rate in the interviewed nurseries, respondents
mentioned a 25% to -35% mortality rate. The mortality depend on the climatic
conditions some time if climate is too hot, 100% nurseries get destroyedplant
mortality occurs in nurseries.
9. Irrigation method
Flood irrigation method is used by all interviewed nurseries, tThey use tube well
water for irrigating their nurseries.
Marketing information
4. Price determination
Normally price is determined on the basis of demand focusing the input cost of the
nursery.