With the high population and a growing economic system , the Chinese market is like a heavy hot chocolate almond Proto-Indo European : just a little musical composition of it will satisfy you . At the HortiFlora Expo Shanghai that was held last weekend , 900 company issue their first slice , or went for a second service of process .
FloralDaily.com was at the show to make a photograph report and to get a better insight in what ’s bechance in this interesting rapidly developing grocery store .
Click here for the exposure written report .
Clockwise : The team of Megaphoton , team of Danziger ( with a vizor ) , team of Evanthia and part of the squad of Oboya Horticulture .
When walking down the gangway and talking to the exhibitioner and visitors , how do they think the Formosan market is developing ? In oecumenical , we hear that it really have off 5 days ago and the developments are visible in several industries . Below a small sum-up of what we heard .
Flower productionFlower and plant production has increase and improved . Most growers are produce baseball swing flowers , and the bedding plant cultivation set forth to grow recently . The cities are paying a lot of attending to the show of the metropolis and the majority of the bedding plant production is government initiate .
AutomationIn several areas , labor has become more expensive and/or scarce , and the fact that the government hold subsidies to the agriculturist to adorn in optimizing process in the nursery , mean that many growers are prefer for more automation solution . Step by step , more and more manual process are being exchange by machines . And let ’s not forget tone is also becoming increasingly significant , and this can be accomplish through mechanisation too .
import flowersChina is a country that is used to exporting , but over the last twelvemonth South American and African growers have been inscribe the market . Ecuador was one of the first to enter the market due to the uncertainty they perceived in their main exportation market , Russia . In 2014 , 1 million FOB was export to China and in 2018 , the 12 million mark was surpassed , Flor Ecuador reported .
However , the market has n’t reached its climax at all yet and still many improvement can be made in several areas . Below again a summary .
Language / ethnic barrierLanguage is still one of the main roadblock in the country . To enter this market , it is secure to have a Chinese mouth person in the company . And preferably a native talker that realize the culture . It ask time to create a relationship , but once work , they are for the long term .
Growing the cropBuilding a greenhouse and instal machines . It is a patch of cake and croak very tight today in China . But then the real work starts : growing and maintaining the crop . And this often still is a challenge . Particularly for the vegetable industriousness one sees a lack of knowledge . However , for the ornamental industry , there is still a heap to learn as well . Most plants , for exemplar are grown from source and vegetative cultivation is something new , of which the long - terminus benefits need to be explicate .
Intellectual place rightsIllegal propagation is still a major issue for the stock breeder and the Chinese distributors . There are stock breeder rights now , but when it pass off often not much can be done regarding receive the royalties . However , an awareness of the benefits of de jure propagated plants ( for which royalties are paid ) is being recognized among more and more growers ; it will not only improve the quality of the product , it will also give them access code to novelties .
Infrastructure spell flowersImporting flowers is relatively novel for the Chinese importer . There is just little knowledge about handling flowers when they arrive . They do not seem to be that conversant with a cold chain , but more and more is being learned and growers are gift in teaching the importers how to mete out with the blossom .
This is just a short overview . later on in FloralDaily , we will go deeply into each of the unlike discipline mention .
But for now , curious about the Hortiflorexpo Shanghai?Click here for our photo report .
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