From May , worldwide need for blossom increase ; however , for many bring out countries , let in Colombia , freight capacity and rates have been a major progeny . The normalization of flight will be slow and gradual until the midriff of next year . This is explained by Álvaro Villamizar , President of the United States of Caproflor , an affiliation that has 75 flower agriculturalist especially boil down in the Sabana de Bogotá , Colombia . He gives us an brainwave in the impact of the pandemic on Colombia ’s floriculture industry , how the spot is now and the outlook for next year .
Onset pandemic : require down , production costs upWhen the pandemic started , just a month after Valentine ’s Day , the uncertainty approached the growers and those who make up the production chain . " As the grocery store were closed worldwide , the initial demand move from 100 % to 10 or 20 % and resulted in the vast bulk of grower realise the decision to prune their crops . Fortunately , the doer could keep going to the farm , but to trim the risk of spreading of the computer virus , they had to comply with the phytosanitary requirements and keeping distance , forcing the workforce to be thin from 100 % to 60 % - without this implying layoff of personnel though , as they started to work in shifts . This , combined with the increase monetary value of craw tribute products , which are mostly spell , resulted in an overall increase in output cost . "
reenforcement by the governmentOn top of allowing the agriculture industry to continue to operate , the regime did more to alleviate the negative encroachment because of the dubiety . " Like ad valorem tax refunds , support for the requital of the mid - year premium , and loans through Finagro . "
Today ’s order higher than in 2019When look at today ’s spot , Villamizar excuse that orders have improved especially in the United States . " Due to the pandemic , as American families did not go on holiday , menage increase the use of goods and services of flowers , foliage and ornamental , to boot , the lack of Avalanche roses , one of the primary crops grown in Kenya , lead to an increase in rescript of 20 % , compare to the same date in 2019 . "
shipment capacity still an issue"There is a very important and distressing egress that is being experience and that will cause serious problems for the placement of our products in the dissimilar markets of the world , and this is that 90 to 95 % of the air fleet in the earth is on land " , Villamizar stress . " Although it is improving bit by bit , it definitely impact the capacity of the warehouse and cargo , because the flight frequency are shrink to the minimum amount , give to resort to charter flight , which increases the freight per kilo of flowers to the USA by almost 30 % and 50 % to Europe " , he says . Although this effect of shipping restriction is more pronounced to European markets - not to Miami , as there is a slap-up flow of flight - , the flight of stairs to New York and Los Angeles are impact as well . " Flights from 8 to 9 hebdomadary frequencies were dilute to zero . So , from 250 tons of heyday that were get off weekly to NY , it was reduced to 60 tons , stimulate to resort through Mexican transporters that make the route : Bogota - Quito - Mexico - Los Angeles or NY . In turn , it has a slight encroachment on the conservation of the cold range of mountains , due to loading and unloading result . All of this forced shipments to be reduce in Miami , yield congestion . "
flight expected to normalize mid 2021The normalization of flight will be slow and gradual until the middle of next class , expect Villamizar . As a upshot , the exports for important holidays are expected to be affect . " The first holiday strike will be All Saints Day in Spain , celebrated on November 1st . From Colombia the chief flowers kick the bucket to this country for this vacation are mainly the mini carnations and , on a smaller scale , roses which will leave in October . "
Then , for Valentine ’s Day ( February 14 ) , it is look that lading costs per kilo will rise by 80 or 100 % . " This due to the disproportion between air lading and trade Libra . For example , four full planing machine lead and only one rejoinder full , the other three empty or with very petty charge . "
Then , Mother ’s Day in the UK will follow in March , 2021 . " Then , mainly mini Dianthus caryophyllus will be shipped to this country out of Colombia and also this is expect to be bear on . The same will pass with dispatch to Japan due to the increase in freight charge per unit and the rareness of flights . "
" All in all , this throw us an estimate of all the barrier and obstacles that our growers have to overcome in rescript to fulfil customer orders globally " , he concludes .
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