Drought in southwestern China has led to what is affected floral company - one of the major companies, which in this region make money machinations of the country. In this region rainfall over the past eight months was not at all.

Drought in China, florists count the damage

Small farms in China, who grow flowers, have suffered and are suffering greatly, are big and heavy loss of flowers and floral products, which mainly goes to exports, due to lack of water for irrigation. In contrast to the large farms that use of water-saving drip irrigation systems to ensure their productivity to get rich from the higher prices they could go bankrupt as a result of colors can not miss the flower market. Flower industry is heavily dependent on the weather. Only good and abundant rainfall produce a good yield and quality of flowers.

Prices of flowers in China have increased

Every day, bought flowers in the markets, which will then be sent for sale in Shanghai. The price of flowers in China has risen to 30 yuan ($ 4.4) per kg from 10 yuan, and the price of roses has increased by 15 percent, said Jiang. "I used to buy 10,000 flowers a day, but now I can only afford less. The price of each flower in Shanghai has also increased," he said. "Compared with previous years, Valentine's Day and March 8 colors this year were a luxury. Prices of flowers in China dostiglb the highest level. "For the first time in the flower industry in Yunnan Province is suffering so much," said the manager of the Flower Market, which is the largest throughout Asia. In 2009, the market of flowers sold a total of 400 million yuan of flowers, with three million flowers are sold per day at its peak. But this year the market has been sold, at most, 1.4 million flowers per day. In previous years, trade will last from 9 pm to 3 am. Tens of thousands of peasants in Yunnan Province of China earn their living by planting flowers, and some of them are working on small farms producing flowers.

Flower irrigating land

However, installing drip irrigation equipment 200,000 yuan per mu, the vast majority of small farmers can not afford. Jinyuan also built aqueduct to carry water from distant lakes, which are also costly. Last year they put Jinyuan 30 million pinks, each sold at 0.2 yuan. This year, the price of cloves has risen to 0.8 yuan per share due to drought, so Jinyuan has expanded its production capacity to 100 million and this year could reach income 10 times higher. Since late summer 2009, the Chinese floral province was no rain, resulting in seven million people suffer from lack of food and water. As a result of drought, the economic loss has now reached $ 13 billion. In addition to the flower industry, the production of tobacco, rubber and sugar cane, is also seriously injured in the province. Recall that the colors in Belarus has not yet bloomed, but you can always surprise your loved ones giving them flowers with delivery in Minsk and the whole Belarus.