The consequence of the coronavirus is still felt intemperately in the floriculture industry in Turkey .
reduce blossom growers in Antalya had invited municipalities to purchase the flowers they were not able to export due to the coronavirus and utilize these flowers to beautify the city . However , their invitation was left without a response . Most of the agriculturalist in Antalya had to discard their bloom as waste .
But one grower announce in social media that they will distribute heyday for barren in their glasshouse . Grower Abdulhamid Geli , who has a hectare production area in Antalya , decided to utilise peak as a morale booster for people in these hard time . Especially Russian citizen dwell in Antalya evince a lot of involvement in this promotional campaign and visited the greenhouse . The visitors were able to take lots of picture to immortalize this day and also harvested bloom from the glasshouse . In totality , 1,500 visitant come to the greenhouse in 3 days and a total of 2 million prow of bloom were distributed free of charge .
Abdulhamid Geli : “ I decided to use bloom to bring a smile to hoi polloi ’s grimace instead of throwing them as a permissive waste . I had already trade 20 % of my products , I have distributed 30 % of my products for free and the remaining 50 % I ’m dry out them out in the greenhouses to practice their bulbs in the futurity .
Despite the decline in need for floriculture product across Turkey , a jobber in Afyon reports that he has seen a meaning increment in plant sale in late workweek . The wholesaler note that people are now squeeze to spend more clock time in their houses as a precaution against coronavirus and this created more interest in works because people need to decorate their home and balcony . A deal of people started to buy seeds , seedling to grow their own plants and some purchased fledged plant to produce a more positivistic at their plate . flop now a client could spend just 15 euros and grace his balcony with 6 - 7 plant . The prices have been always around this level in late years so it does not put any press on client ’s budgets due to its sane Mary Leontyne Price .
However , the positive reports about the shock of coronavirus on flower and plant life demand are rarified . The growers in Izmir are struggling powerful as coronavirus has caused the need to polish off John Rock bottom with many wedding party , openings , solemnization , and consequence set off . The absolute majority of domestic and international order are canceled and almost 70 % of the intersection are have forth as waste . The raiser estimate a loss of almost 150 million USD and underline that if the growers are not supported by the administration during this unmanageable time , they might not be able to have enough capital to startle product next season . Izmir is responsible for nearly half of Turkey ’s cut flower output and about 10 % of its exportation . The growers are ask for tax cuts and tax exemptions for this twelvemonth in improver to funding livelihood for next time of year ’s crop and seed purchase . Additionally , they seek dispirited - interest loans from state banks and 1 - twelvemonth wait of their outstanding loanword debt to banks .
Source : Yeni Asır / Sabah / Yeni Asır
