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Rabobank’s 2016 World Floriculture Map, published in cooperation with Royal FloraHolland, highlights some key global trends in the very diverse floriculture sector. Colombia, Kenya, Ecuador and Ethiopia—have passed the share of the Netherlands in 2015 and now account for 44% in global cut flower exports.

International Floriculture & Horticulture Trade Fair (IFTF) is getting more international every year. This year growers from Iran and Rwanda showed their flowers and potted plants for the first time in Holland. Ofcourse growers from the big flower producing countries like Kenya, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Colombia and Israel were also present at the fair.

Nine ornamental growers, from Belgium, China, Colombia, Denmark, The Netherlands, Russia and UK, have reached the finals of the AIPH International Grower of the Year Awards (IGOTY) 2017.

At IFTF in Vijfhuizen, Japanese export organisations are trying to increase their sales in Europe with their own assortment, which includes lathyrus, ranunculus, gentiana, gloriosa and lisianthus.

Six years ago, Moscow-based BiFlorica started its preparations for an online platform for cut flower trading. They currently have more than 300 registered growers and 300-400 active buyers per week.

'I put my head down and keep going'

Olij Roses International / Olij Breeding, with head office in De Kwakel, is to become part of Dümmen Orange. The two parties have reached agreement on the transfer of shares.

“Are you coming along to the auction?” I’ve been going there with my father since I was six years old. I used to love it! We would drive down in the green van on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons to deliver the chrysanthemums.

Before the first of October the East African heads of state are required to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) if it is to come into effect. In case they do not ratify, higher export tariffs will be imposed on the products of companies exporting their products from the Eastern African Community (EAC) to the EU’s common market. “This will be the end of the flower business in Kenya”, expects Jane Ngige, director of the Kenya Flower Council. The whole sector is holding its breath.

The world's rose area is decreasing every year. Over the past five years, the decrease was 27%. There are about 1,700 hectares of roses in Europe at the moment.

In an ever increasingly competitive and global business environment, the news of the outcome of last week’s referendum on UK’s membership of the EU has hit particularly hard companies operating in the trade and distribution of cut flowers and plants on the European market, states Union Fleurs.

Peter Ullrich, the founder of one of the biggest flower farms in the world, Esmeralda Farms, died last night in his residence in Miami. He became 74 years old.

It's quite something, the immigration crisis you’ve got over in Europe! Anyone with a solution should speak now. Culture clashes, religions, languages, and wars. Compared to that, we are quite lucky here in South America. ISIS isn’t bothering us yet, almost everyone is Catholic, we all speak the same language (Spanish), and once the guerrillas in Colombia are removed, peace will reign once more.

Red roses were scarce and costly in the wholesale sector last week. VGB, the Dutch branch organisation for wholesale trade in flowers and plants, stated that this was caused by the climatic phenomenon El Niño.