Mumbai: With Valentine’s Day just over a week away, love is in the air, literally. Roses from the interiors of Maharashtra, including Satara, Sangli and Talegaon in Pune, are being exported to US, Japan as well as European and Gulf countries from Mumbai.
With the increasing demand for roses ahead of Valentine’s Day on February 14, airlines flying out of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport are temporarily reducing the export of other perishable commodities like fruits, vegetables and other flowers. Roses have a shorter shelf life and are therefore kept in special temperature-controlled containers which earlier accommodated other flowers.
Thanks to the festival of lovers, Indigo, the country’s leading low-cost carrier, is doing brisk business. “Every day, we export about 800-1,200kg of roses to destinations like Dubai and Muscat apart from other places where we fly to from Mumbai,” Anish Nair, an executive from Indigo airlines, told dna.
06/02/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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With the increasing demand for roses ahead of Valentine’s Day on February 14, airlines flying out of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport are temporarily reducing the export of other perishable commodities like fruits, vegetables and other flowers. Roses have a shorter shelf life and are therefore kept in special temperature-controlled containers which earlier accommodated other flowers.
Thanks to the festival of lovers, Indigo, the country’s leading low-cost carrier, is doing brisk business. “Every day, we export about 800-1,200kg of roses to destinations like Dubai and Muscat apart from other places where we fly to from Mumbai,” Anish Nair, an executive from Indigo airlines, told dna.
06/02/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
