"In the event that they ban watering the gardens, who will purchase vegetation?" asks Jesús de Vega, supervisor of Plantes Vega, a wholesale firm positioned in Mercabarna-flor.
"If they ban watering the gardens, who will purchase vegetation?" asks Jesús de Vega, supervisor of Plantes Vega, a wholesale firm positioned in Mercabarna-flor. That is the query that worries the producers and distributors of this sector in Catalonia probably the most. Throughout March, the Generalitat decreed the distinctive scenario attributable to drought in an space that impacts virtually six million individuals, together with Barcelona and its metropolitan space. If it continues with out rain and the scenario worsens, it's anticipated that the Catalan Water Company (ACA) will advocate a state of emergency. This finish is predicted to be reached in September, the Authorities mentioned yesterday. And on this part it is vitally restrictive with every thing to do with irrigation.
On this situation, in accordance with documentation out there on the Generalitat's web site, the "whole suppression of irrigation" will likely be decreed. As well as, the "ban on using water for the irrigation of private and non-private parks and inexperienced areas" will likely be carried out. ACA sources state that the restrictions wouldn't be carried out in circumstances "with regenerated water irrigation methods".
"We're apprehensive about what might occur", acknowledges the president of the Mercabarna-flor wholesalers' affiliation, Miquel Batlle. "We're very a lot wanting ahead to the restrictions", he provides. Batlle explains that the sphere of plant manufacturing can be extra affected than that of flowers. The latter is extra of a minority in Catalonia. Josep Reig, supervisor of Reigmat Flor, a producer and wholesale firm with an extended custom, remembers how a few many years in the past the drought already burdened some companies on this space. "We're not on this scenario but", he clarifies with the hope that it's going to not occur once more.
Remembering the previous, Miquel Batlle regrets that "for a few years" the administrations have been conscious of the water downside and the local weather emergency. Nevertheless, in his opinion, "nothing has been executed" to stop the matter from escalating. Jesús de Vega has the identical perception. "All this already occurred, however evidently nothing has been executed", he criticizes.
"There'll all the time be water within the Maresme water wells, but when it would not rain, its high quality can worsen," exemplifies Jesús de Vega. In actual fact, Josep Reig experiences that the water desk has been "happening for 15 or 20 years" on this space, which concentrates plant crops, some flowers and likewise firms which have opted for expertise on this space. Reig provides that lately there have already been producers who've modified their crops to plant species that require much less water. For Batlle, this may increasingly turn into a pattern within the close to future.
Began in Barcelona and moved to the Maresme as a result of city development of the Catalan capital, the cultivation of flowers skilled its peak between the Nineteen Twenties and the mid-Nineteen Eighties, recollects Josep Reig. At the moment Catalonia "exported to the remainder of Spain and Europe". However then the manufacturing moved additional south and within the north Holland started to take market share. The response of the sector, at the moment, was "to start out producing vegetation" coinciding with the opening of the Flower and Decorative Plant Market of Catalonia, positioned in Vilassar de Mar, in 1983.
Occasions have modified. Final yr Mercabarna-flor distributed 6.5 million vegetation, flowers and equipment. In accordance with information from the middle opened in 2008 in Sant Boi de Llobregat, it's a couple of third of the market in Catalonia. Solely 29% of the product was produced in Spain. Nevertheless, you will need to make the most of peak market instances, equivalent to wedding ceremony season, All Saints' Day or Sant Jordi.
And dealing with the day of April 23, like a mirage, the wholesalers of Mercabarna-flor are optimistic. They estimate that six million roses will likely be bought in Catalonia, a 3rd distributed from Sant Boi de Llobregat. It's the identical quantity as final yr. As Sant Jordi falls on a Sunday, the sector feared that consumers would depart for the weekend with out buying the flowers. However the orders they've already acquired draw, as soon as once more, a large day. "Subsequent yr we'll most likely promote seven million, however six million being Sant Jordi on Sunday is a hit", says Miquel Batlle.
Costs will stay secure regardless of inflation. Sant Jordi is a uniquely Catalan custom, which makes it simple to have all of the world's manufacturing out there. So there's a lot to supply. You do not have to compete with different locations, because it does for instance for Sant Valentine. The truth that covid is already a factor of the previous additionally makes it simpler to move. In accordance with estimates, high quality roses will be purchased from 4 euros. Though the worth will find yourself various relying on the ornament.
As soon as once more, pink would be the predominant coloration, with 80% of the market. 62% of the roses may have their origin in Colombia. The second origin will likely be Holland (20%), and the third, Ecuador (15%). Solely 3% will likely be cultivated in Spain.
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