Royal Horticultural Society giving them the opportunity to grow plants, food and develop life skills. The society honours certain persons with the Victoria Medal of Honour who are deemed by its Council to be deserving of special recognition in the field of horticulture. Other medals issued by the society include the Banksian, Knightian and Lindley medals, named after early officers of the society. It awards Gold, Silver-gilt, Silver and Bronze medals to exhibitors at its Flower Shows. The Veitch Memorial Medal, named after James Veitch, is awarded annually to persons of any nationality who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement and
Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society, popularly known by its acronym, HOPCOMS, is a farmers' society founded in 1965 for the direct marketing of farm produces. The society is headquartered in Lalbagh, Bengaluru, in the south Indian state of Karnataka and its activities are spread in the districts of Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Kolar, Ramanagar and Chikkaballapura. The origin of HOPCOMS was in 1959 when Mari Gowda, the then director of the department of horticulture, founded the "Bangalore Grape Growers’ Marketing and Processing Co-operative Society" for promoting grape farming by providing farming