Be it Russia or the US , there are not enough prime , say producer and traders likewise in both of these unlike , yet large and nevertheless closely related marketplace . However , to find one source provide you with detail , up - to - date information on both of them at the same time , especially with regards to ongoing locomotion confinement , is hard . De Ruiter , a Dutch international grow breeding company with client in all corner of the world , is one such source . We blab out to Marcelo Vallejo ( general manager De Ruiter Ecuador ) and Arjen Vlasman ( area manager De Ruiter East Europe ) , who visited the International Flower Expo in Miami ( 16 - 18 Sept ) and the Flowers Expo Moscow ( 13 - 15 Sept ) about local market developments .
leave to right : Laura Fajardo ( De Ruiter Colombia ) , Marcelo Vallejo and Elizabeth Muñoz ( De Ruiter Ecuador ) .
As with any fair , the consultation can not in truth be called international ; around 700 retail visitors registered to visit the reasonable , but the actual turnout was humiliated . In Moscow , visitors consist mostly of raiser , traders , and flower store , and almost entirely of Russians . Although this leaves some extra time for get people and travel to customer either at the just or elsewhere , numbers are disappointing liken to other age .
AmericasBusiness , however , has been great . Marcelo : “ This year will be the best of the past 15 years for our agency in Ecuador . A fortune of internal and external factors are involved to get this high requirement for our varieties from our client in Colombia and Ecuador : the quality and performance of our roses , immense demand , growing e - commerce , and a new generation we call “ Pandemials ” buying more flowers . There are also new developments , such as Mexican growers who are changing from roses to , for model , black pepper and tomatoes , Ecuador run off from socialist economy , agriculturalist who desire to invest again , etc . All these thing come together , and for us to empathise what is start on in the world , it is very significant to advert any fair . "
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" Over the last two year , requirement for yellowness and oranges grew in almost all section . Also , the demand for garden character roses is astonishingly in high spirits principally because of wholesalers , retailers , and event planners . Bright colours in general are very of import nowadays , in all segment and countries . The US and European markets likewise got spoiled since the Russian crisis at the destruction of 2014 , receiving more quality flowers from our Ecuadorian farms . Over the last age , these growers generally also ameliorate on painted roses , preserved flowers , summertime flowers , and more and more filler , so their customers find a wide range of mathematical product at one farm . "
Eastern EuropeArjen Vlasman , on the other side of the globe , had a officious dyad of weeks . “ Because of Covid , it was not comfortable to get a visa . Once I got one , I determine to spend several calendar week in Russia to visit all our customers there . It was definitely near to impose , particularly considering the fact that it ’s been close to a class since we do to make a duty tour like that . ”
Arjen Vlasman ( area manager ) and Olga Aristova ( De Ruiter Russia ) .
Although we wasted no time during the pandemic , visiting the Flowers Expo was definitely worth the waiting . “ We were the only rose breeder from the Netherlands , and , together with Tantau , the only foreign companies with rosiness . I did n’t see any Africans or South Americans chat , and there were hardly any people from Eastern European countries . A few of my customer come , one grower from Uzbekistan , one from Belarus and one from Armenia , but that ’s about it . By and large , visitor were Russians . It made you wonder , where did everybody else evaporate to ? ”
Russian growers , however , did attend . “ We did contact some people concerned in or in reality design new projects , and in addition there were quite a few commercial companies walking about concerned in ( foreign ) flower . In absence of the Dutch Embassy and a ‘ Holland Pavilion ’ normally hosting average attendance for Dutch companies , we consider the opening move to get up a small response and welcomed our customers and some other relations and friends . ”
“ As in North America , selling blossom in Russia today is not a problem . I have n’t seen any full cool facilities , no one seems to have any bother sending out the total stock . There are still far fewer flowers come in from abroad as compared to the situation before Covid . In itself , that ’s salutary news for domesticated production . How much that will be , and by whom and where , we will have to hold off and see . ”
A lot to do“However , not all the things are convinced today ” , Marcelo conclude . “ Due to Covid , people are losing jobs and incomes , provider are closing their door , form in logistics and requirement are exchange , and the whole chain is broken , not only in the roses business . This leave our occupation with a lot of things to meliorate and to solve , like the cost of freights and product shortfall , handiness of rootstock , difficulty with the supply of greenhouse hardware , irrigation fabric , composition board , etc . So we have a circle to do . ”
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