Blossoming Business

Nepalis are making preparations to celebrate Tihar, known as the festival of lights and flowers, next week. The second biggest festival after the Dashain, Tihar is celebrated for five days. It is the sweet coincidence that flowers blossom and exude its natural aroma in the surrounding during the Tihar festival. Though flowers are the most essential part of Tihar, many people do not have their own garden to grow them to meet their demand during the festive seasons. So they have to buy flowers from the market. The flower entrepreneurs state that demand for flowers keeps rising by 10 per cent each year. During the festival, the flower demand soars and the domestic production cannot meet it, forcing the country to import them from different countries.