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It’s still a huge export for our country. If it wasn’t profitable it wouldn’t make sense, but it’s very profitable.

diggan 3y ago
No joke: > In 2022, the EU exported just over €100 million worth of orchid, hyacinth, narcissi, and tulip bulbs to countries across the world, according to statistics published by Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, on 6 April. > Of this total, 81% of exports came from the Netherlands, which is almost synonymous with tulips and exports many of the flowers and their bulbs. > The Dutch exported €81.9 million-worth of tulips to countries outside the EU. The next biggest exporter is Lithuania at just €6.7 million. https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exported-e82-million-in-tulips-and-bulbs-last-year https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exporte...
- xxs 3y ago
  most of the produce is consumed within the EU/EEA, though
  - diggan 3y ago
    Yes, this is talked about in the linked article too: > Plants and bulbs are mostly exported to other European countries. Switzerland is the EU’s main partner for these products, accounting for 31% of EU exports (or €31.3 million). The UK also imported €21.4 million, Norway €11.5 million, Russia €9.4 million, and Ukraine €5.5 million.
    - xxs 3y ago
      No really. They are ALL outside the EU. Norway is in the EEA, though. Just because they are European countries it doesn't make them EU, which the article doesn't mention. The point is that the business within the EU is much larger than the export outside.
xxs 3y ago
it's a massive business, albeit with low margins.
Etheryte 3y ago
Random factoid of the day, if you buy tulips at a local market in the Netherlands, you're most likely buying tulips that were grown in Africa. Pretty much everything that's grown in the Netherlands goes to export since that is just so much more profitable.
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  Can confirm, used to work at Flora Holland, the world's largest flower exchange and a big part of the incoming product was from Africa. A lot from Dutch greenhouses as well.

No joke: > In 2022, the EU exported just over €100 million worth of orchid, hyacinth, narcissi, and tulip bulbs to countries across the world, according to statistics published by Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, on 6 April. > Of this total, 81% of exports came from the Netherlands, which is almost synonymous with tulips and exports many of the flowers and their bulbs. > The Dutch exported €81.9 million-worth of tulips to countries outside the EU. The next biggest exporter is Lithuania at just €6.7 million. https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exported-e82-million-in-tulips-and-bulbs-last-year https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exporte...

xxs 3y ago
most of the produce is consumed within the EU/EEA, though
- diggan 3y ago
  Yes, this is talked about in the linked article too: > Plants and bulbs are mostly exported to other European countries. Switzerland is the EU’s main partner for these products, accounting for 31% of EU exports (or €31.3 million). The UK also imported €21.4 million, Norway €11.5 million, Russia €9.4 million, and Ukraine €5.5 million.
  - xxs 3y ago
    No really. They are ALL outside the EU. Norway is in the EEA, though. Just because they are European countries it doesn't make them EU, which the article doesn't mention. The point is that the business within the EU is much larger than the export outside.

xxs 3y ago

it's a massive business, albeit with low margins.

Etheryte 3y ago

Random factoid of the day, if you buy tulips at a local market in the Netherlands, you're most likely buying tulips that were grown in Africa. Pretty much everything that's grown in the Netherlands goes to export since that is just so much more profitable.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago
Can confirm, used to work at Flora Holland, the world's largest flower exchange and a big part of the incoming product was from Africa. A lot from Dutch greenhouses as well.