Latinnews Daily - 13 February 2018

Colombia: Figures from the Colombian association of flower exporters (Asocolflores) show that Colombia’s floriculture sector exported a total of 246,000 tonnes of flowers in 2017, up 5% on 2016. Meanwhile Colombia's agriculture ministry released statistics which show that the US is Colombia’s main market for flowers, receiving 78% of exports, followed by United Kingdom (4%), Japan (4%), Canada (3%), and Russia (2%) with the remaining 9% distributed across 90 other countries worldwide, including new markets in Saint Lucia, Ethiopia, and the Maldives. Over US$297m has been invested in the sector since 2010, which has generated an estimated 130,000 jobs, with an average of 14 needed per hectare.

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