Sarita Gurung, Nepal News Bank<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Pokhara. The ninth Godavari Flower Fair and the fifth Gandaki Provincial and Third Centennial Flower Fair-2083 will be held in Pokhara from Wednesday. <\/p>\n The fair is going to be organized by Floriculture Association Nepal (FAN) District Committee, Kaski from November 1 to 23. Shreeram Subedi, chairman of Fan Kaski, said that the business of flowers worth at least Rs <\/p>\n 20 million is expected to take place in Pokhara this year. <\/p>\n According to him, 42 nurseries and floriculture entrepreneurs associated with FAN are also involved in commercial floriculture. The entrepreneurs have been doing floriculture with a minimum income of Rs 50,000 to a maximum of Rs 6 lakh. <\/p>\n Similarly, former president of the organization, Daya Kumar Dwa, said that around 50 species of Godavari would be put on display during the fair. According to him, although Godavari flowers are the main attraction of the fair, Sayapatri, orchids, various plants, bonsai plants will be displayed in the exhibition and sale. Pokhara Metropolitan City has promoted this fair, which is organized especially on the occasion of Tihar and Chhath festivals, the second biggest festival of Nepalis. Chief of Economic Development Division of KMC, Manhar Kadariyaka, said that an estimated Rs 2 to 30 million worth of flowers and garlands will be required in Pokhara targeting the Tihar festival. For the last three years, the metropolis has been commercially cultivating flowers in about 200 ropanis of land in Pokhara area to manage the demand of the market. He said that 70 percent of this will be supported by local production and the remaining 30 percent will be imported from Gorkha, Tanahun, Syangj and other districts. With an aim to make Pokhara self-reliant in flowers by promoting local flower production, KMC has also provided 50 percent subsidy to floriculture farmers for the purchase of seeds and mulching, he said. According to him, at present, 165 farmers are involved in commercial floriculture in the area. He said that these farmers have been producing marigolds for the purpose of Tihar. According to Kadariya, although the overall flower production in Pokhara has been good this year, the flowers have suffered 15 to 20 percent damage due to the rain a few days ago. Similarly, the Pokhara Metropolitan City has not fixed the price of flowers and garlands so far this year. In the previous years, the metropolis had fixed the price of flowers at Rs 500 per kg and the price of garlands at Rs 150. Similarly, the metropolis had fixed 3 different prices of flower stalks. The metropolis had fixed the price of flowers above 5 grams at Rs 5, Rs 4 for 3 to 5 grams and Rs 3 for flower stalks up to 3 grams. Kadaria said that the price of flowers will be fixed in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarita Gurung, Nepal News Bank Pokhara. The ninth Godavari Flower Fair and the fifth Gandaki Provincial and Third Centennial Flower Fair-2083 will be held in Pokhara from Wednesday. The fair is going to be organized by Floriculture Association Nepal (FAN) District Committee, Kaski from November 1 to 23. Shreeram Subedi, chairman of Fan Kaski, saidContinue reading “Flower business in Pokhara estimated to be worth Rs 20 million during Tihar alone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":123757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_e43aa0ac.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123834,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123833\/revisions\/123834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/123757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}