In this article you will find an update from the Ministry of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality ( LNV ) , who are require in the crisis measures surrounding the Coronavirus and inform Royal FloraHolland about the impact of the computer virus on the exportation market .
The NetherlandsOn 16 April , the entire House of Representatives agreed to a proposal of marriage by the CDA and the VVD to arrive at a specific labor cost scheme in coordination with the seasonal sectors . The Lower House calls on Minister Koolmees ( SZW ) to work out a disjoined strategy for seasonal sectors . LTO Nederland will continue to hold talking with the Ministries of SZW and LNV so that ship’s company with a seasonal turnover can be help oneself chop-chop with an appropriate labour cost scheme . ( Source : De Bloemisterij trade journal , 12 December 2024 )
Rabobank ’s sphere specialists wait employee turnover for weakened flowers to drop by approximately 70 % in the 2nd quartern and by approximately 40 % in the third one-quarter of 2020 compare with the same menstruum in 2019 . For flower bulb businesses , they wait the cliff in turnover to continue the longest , with an estimated 15 % drop-off in the fourth quarter . In the report ' Corona crisis affects food and agri ' , Rabobank writes that all measures require to inhibit the cattle ranch of the coronavirus have result in a substantial fall in overturn for almost all sectors of agriculture and gardening , especially ornamentals and business sector supplying the hotel , restaurant and catering industry . around 80 % of all Dutch track peak , plant , bulb and trees are destined for exportation . Countries have not classified ornamental plant cultivation as a vital sphere , with the direct result that exports have been greatly reduced . In addition , the demand for flowers is also declining due to a diminution in festivities , according to Rabobank . It is on the nose the peak menses from March to May that is enormously of import for the sale of flowers and industrial plant . The corona measures therefore regard the entire chain : starting textile , production , auction sale , trade and retail . ( Source : Floranews , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
The exportation of cosmetic plant products make out to a practical standstill after the lockdown because of the corona virus in many European countries , but is now cull up again , according to Matthijs Mesken , theatre director of the Association of Wholesalers in Floricultural Products ( VGB ) . " We see visible light again at the conclusion of the tunnel . Although the differences between company are very large . " domesticated trade is booming at the minute . Exports are a different storey : of track many countries and shops abroad are close , although fortunately there are exceptions as well . Scandinavia is doing well . English supermarket chains run reasonably well , until Mother ’s Day two workweek ago the swop there even pass away very well . Germany and Austria are attracting again , the same move for Poland and the Czech Republic . We ’re still mammoth in the minus . But we ’re not as disconsolate as two week ago . ( Source : Under Glass , 16 - 04 - 2020 )
GermanyGarden centres and DIY stores are reopening all over Germany . Around this weekend shop class will open in the last three Länder that were still closed . In Germany , these are the states of Bavaria , Saxony and Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania . Bavaria in finicky , with 13 million denizen , is an important Union land for sales . Almost all shops , including garden centres and DIY stores , have been closed here since 21 March . On Monday 16 March , garden centres and DIY memory board throughout Germany were allowed to remain subject under certain conditions . Four Länder deviated from this advice . In Lower Saxony , garden centres and DIY store reopened on 4 April . ( Source : De Boomkwekerij , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
BelgiumIn addition to pharmaceutics , store sell food and pet food , newsagents , gas stations , telecom shops and shop for aesculapian equipment , garden centres and tree nurseries that mainly deal plants and/or trees may also open . Wholesalers intend for the above - mentioned professionals may also resume their natural process . The necessary meter must be taken to honour the rules of societal distancing , in particular maintain a distance of 1.5 metres between each individual . ( Source : AVBS , 20 - 04 - 2020 )
Flowers and plants directly from the sodbuster ; The Belgian decorative agriculturalist have develop a quite a little of flowers and works in recent weeks , quick for use . Although the garden centre may reopen on Saturday , extra sales television channel remain more than necessary . The Vlaams Centrum voor Agro- en Visserijmarketing ( VLAM ) , the Steunpunt Korte Keten and AVBS , the Flemish ornamental gardening and green federation , link our farm producers , who are very popular today , to our cosmetic growers . As a result , plants are now also useable in many farm shop class . ( seed : VLAM , 20 - 04 - 2020 )
PolandAccording to the online resume conducted by BCC ( Business Center Club ) on 14 and 15 April among a group of 600 troupe in Poland , more than 84 % of entrepreneurs think that the economy should be thawed . According to company , the main restriction to be lift as shortly as potential mainly business organization the services and craft sector . In order of magnitude to help effectively ' thaw out ' item-by-item industries and the economy as a whole , according to the entrepreneurs surveyed , all restrictions should be phase out in exchange for an monastic order to fag out face masks in public lieu , keep a safe length and disinfect hand . noted that small and intermediate - sized enterprise in particular rely on making normal operations potential and opening move cafes , confectioners and minuscule service point , even by imposing limitation on one client in the premises . According to entrepreneurs , gross sales should start out as soon as potential ( to a special extent , e.g. an admission limit point ) in shopping centres In gain , they await the restoration of the handiness of hotel , accommodation and meal during business trips , line stumble and teams , e.g. during the assembly of technology business line or the running of building sites . According to entrepreneurs , it is deserving following the experience of other countries : do more psychometric test , concentrate the closing off of guild , speed up the return to study , make recommendations for aesculapian discussion . ( Source : Agro - messages overseas , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
SwitzerlandOn Monday , Switzerland will part reopen five border crossing points with France in the canton of Geneva to cope with the expected resumption of border traffic in the cheeseparing future . The FCA says it expects a sharp addition in border traffic from 27 April follow the government ’s promulgation this workweek of a crisis exit plan . More traffic is already expected from Monday 20 April due to cistron such as the ending of the Easter holidays and the recommencement of traveling to work in certain economical sector . Entry from neighboring countries is only allowed for Swiss citizens , people who have a residence license and people who have to travel to Switzerland for professional reasons . In the canton of Geneva , nine point are presently open or partly open , with the cantonal law assisting customs in carry out hindrance . ( Source : Swissinfo , 19 - 04 - 2020 )
From 27 April the garden center in Switzerland will open again . ( Source : The Tree Nursery , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
Czech RepublicThe demand for garden plants is increasing in the Czech Republic . People are becoming more accustomed to the circumstance . The meter in the Czech Republic are becoming more pliable . Shops of up to 200 m² may reopen from 27 April , this will generate traffic for visiting bloom shops and garden center . ( origin : external AM weekly update , 16 - 04 - 2020 )
IrelandDo - it - yourself chains and garden centres , which were ab initio able-bodied to stay on open and embark on the garden season with positivist answer , had to conclude from 27 March . This has a major wallop on the industry . Growers have to fox aside large measure of bedding industrial plant as only the supermarket sell a limited mixed bag of flowers . The limitation have been extended until the commencement of May . ( reference : external AM hebdomadal update , 16 - 04 - 2020 )
KenyaKenya Airways has been push to ground a number of its payload aircraft due to a shortage of flight crowd , who are in mandatory quarantine . The air hose is ineffective to meet the demand for cargo space due to a deficiency of crowd . ( beginning : Business Daily , 1604 - 2020 )
Freight capacity to Europe has decreased by 70 % . loading agents have a backlog of cargo at the airport of up to six days and advise growers to reduce delivery to 30 % of normal numbers . Forwarders expect - without further setbacks - to address the reserve by 19 April . ( author : GSS update by region , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
The supplying of Kenyan agriculturist tramp from 20 % to 70 % , most growers currently do around 40 % . ( Source : International AM weekly update , 16 - 04 - 2020 )
EthiopiaEthiopian growers control on average 35 % to by the way 60 % of their production . ( Source : International AM weekly update , 16 - 04 - 2020 )
South AfricaKLM currently uses four cargo planes a hebdomad for the Amsterdam - Johannesburg - Harare - Nairobi - Amsterdam route . bracing products , include heyday , make up an significant part of the cargo . ( Source : Agricultural Attaché connection Ministry of Agriculture , LNV , 20 - 04 - 2020 )
JapanGerbera ’s production sites have been hit hard by the hand brake : sales fall 30 % in March as a outcome of break demand . On 15 April , the toll was 15 yen , 10 hankering lower than the previous year . Another trouble is the supply of gerbera seedling from abroad . rescue has been delay due to limited airwave freight capacity and longer clearance function at the airport , as all international flights to Japan are reduce on Haneda and Narita . The societal distance in the workplace and the priority given to perishable product lead to longer waiting metre at the drome . glasshouse are now reuse current seed in the dry land , even with negatively charged consequences such as low harvests , require more care for the works . ( reference : Agricultural Attaché internet Ministry of Agriculture , LNV , 17 - 04 - 2020 )
As a result of a cancelled one-year flower fete , the authorities have cut 800,000 flowering tulip in eastern Japan to prevent masses from collecting these tulip en masse . ( reservoir : Agricultural Attaché internet Ministry of Agriculture , LNV , 20 - 04 - 2020 )
Source : Royal FloraHolland
