Floriculture in Yunnan--a Long-Awaited Update (for me)

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Floriculture | Let a Million Flowers Bloom; Love fuels rose-price inflation. Economist, Feb 7, 2015.
www.economist.com/news/china/216 ... llion-flowers-bloom
("By 2013 it [Yunnan] * * * accounted for about a third of China’s blossom exports* * * China now accounts for more than a quarter of land worldwide devoted to growing flowers and pot plants, according to the International Association of Horticultural Producers, a trade association based in Switzerland. [Yet] China is not yet a global flower-power. Its exports amount to a little over 4% of the world’s total flower trade by value. Over two-thirds of the blooms it sends abroad are sold in Asia. (Myanmar is the biggest buyer.) Freight costs are a barrier to expansion into the more lucrative markets of Europe and America")

Note: "Dounan Flower Market in a suburb of Kunming"  昆明斗南花卉市场 (位于昆明市呈贡县斗南镇)