Fresh flowers set off Yunnan
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The development of floriculture in Yunnan started from the end of 1980s.
In beyond 10 years, with the care and support of the government, the
hard work of tens of thousands of farmers, the great efforts of many
enterprises, and by utilizing the exceptionally gifted natural
conditions sufficiently, Yunnan has become the province of strongest
flower industry in China.
Till the end of 2000, the planting area of flowers and greenery nursery
stock of the province has reached 62000mu, with a total output value of
2.2 billion Yuan, earning foreign currency of 5.5 million USD through
export, including the production output of 1.3 billion pieces of
fresh-cut flower, which ranked the first in China for a consecutive
period of 6 years. The production mainly adopted the structure of
enterprises as the sponsor and the farmers as the main body, and from
1999, the production showed the tendency of upgrading, and the way of
planting began to transit toward high input, high technology,
broad-scale and professional. Yunnan is the largest production base of
fresh-cut flower of China, with the sales volume of fresh-cut flower in
around 50% of the domestic market, 80% of the flowers sold to beyond 70
large and medium domestic cities, and 10% of the flowers exported to the
countries and regions including Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea,
Taiwan and Hong Kong.
To improve the comprehensive quality and level of floriculture in
Yunnan, accelerate the development and realize the industrialized
production, on November 8, 1997, the enterprises, institutions and
flower-planter collectives engaged in production, processing, sale,
scientific research and logistics in Yunnan participated
involuntarily and formed a special economic cooperation body¡ªYunnan
Flower Industry Federation, which was approved by the provincial
government and granted with certain administrative functions. The
establishment of Yunnan Flower Industry Federation marked that the
Yunnan floriculture entered a new stage of development. The flower
enterprises and planters of Yunnan will go on the road of joint
development gradually, and the government will give more support.
The flower industry, as one of the main industries of Yunnan in
future, has mounted the road of industrialized development firmly.
We are justifiable to believe that as a rising industry, the
development of flower industry in Yunnan will be boundless, and the
beautiful flowers will certainly set off Yunnan (meaning ¡°south of
colorful clouds¡±) more and more attractive.