In the last two years the flower sector has experienced more challenges than it has in the past decade. As if Covid-19 did not present enough challenges, freight space was another headache and now the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has hindered the flower market increasingly worrying the flower industry about the export of their products and their fate if this doesn’t stop soon.
Following the cancellation of export, a number of AEA members have continued to suffer the blunt and the most worrisome is how long the suspension of air traffic to and from Russia will take as no flights definitely mean no flowers.
Most of these flowers have ended up in the compose pit, others serving as animal feeds and what has been left of the employees is to maintain the crop hoping that things will turn around sooner or later.