Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Spring has arrived, and the weather calls for attention to the orchard. So, nothing like taking some time out over the Easter weekend to plant some flower plants. But is the EU an importer or exporter of orchids, hyacinths, daffodils and tulips, for example?
The European Statistical Office Eurostat in Brussels says to answer this question that in 2022, the European Union exported a total of 100.6 million euros of orchids, hyacinths, daffodils, tulips or tulips, while imports amounted to only 30.9 million euros.
Of all the EU countries, the Netherlands alone was responsible for 81% of the total exports of those flowers (€82 million). Other major exporters had shares of total exports below 10%: Lithuania (7%, equivalent to 6.7 million euros), Poland (5%, 4.8 million euros), Denmark (2%, 2.1 million) and Latvia (2%, 2.0 million). ). million).
Clove: It means the most beautiful type of white rose, and it is considered the white mercury flower or tulip, as some know it, as one of the best and most important flowers that people love or know. ,
The narcissus flower is native to Europe, North Africa and Asia surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
As for the orchid flower, or as it is known as the “orchid plant”, it is one of the most beautiful and oldest flowers historically, as the first history of this flower dates back to the year 700 BC, and this flower has a high economic value throughout the ages, and the orchid flower has lived through many eras and times. Flowers and animals passed by that lived and became extinct, while that beautiful flower remained to this day.
And the prices of orchids escalated over thousands of years, until they were considered in some eras a sign of luxury and wealth, similar to that of the tulip flower. It was forbidden to harvest and protect them, especially since over time special cultivation and care methods were reached to hybridize them and produce new types of them as well. Over the past century, for example, England was the most important orchid-producing country, followed by the Netherlands and then Belgium.