TEHRAN— The 17th International Exhibition of Flowers, Plants, Park Equipment and Related Industries will be inaugurated at Tehran’s Goftegoo Park on April 28, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.

Some 260 domestic companies as well as 17 companies from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Armenia, Russia and Switzerland, will attend the vent, Mohammad Ali Mokhtari, director general of Tehran Gardens and Green Spaces Organization affiliated to the Municipality has said.

Encouraging the public to keep plants and grow them in their houses and providing the public with plant growing tips are among the objectives of the exhibition, Mokhtari highlighted.

Additionally, the event will pave the way for an economic boom as well as increase in production in plant industry, he added.

Concurrent with the flower and plant exhibition, he explained, beautiful flower arrangements will go on display across the city of Tehran.  

Visitors can buy plants at the exhibition on the last day of the event for reasonable prices, he concluded.

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