Global Cut Flower Trade

The annual retail sales of the global cut flower trade is over 27 billion dollars, and the novelty is popular. Changes in flower color are obvious, but with more factor characteristics, but novelty, additionality, features, and additional traits are particularly suitable for manipulation by extension of classical breeding after gene splicing. Features that bring novelty to work are classified as buyers or producers. Classical breeding targets each category, but as the first boom tried to create a new cut flower market by a genetic engineer, its customer characteristics are derived from its relative benefit.

Let's look at the flower business as an example of the scale and level of inefficiency in modern processes. The value of the world's flower trading industry is close to $ 105 million. There are about 700,000 tons of cut flowers annually. As shipping information passes through many people, the possibility of shipment being delayed increases. In product batches, 30 unique organizations may be required to sign up for 200 communications. Due to the loss or delay of one approval, the container may stay in the port.

Aalsmeer Flower Auction is a flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, providing producers, wholesalers and exporters all over the world with a central market for flower and plant trading. This is the world's largest flower auction. Aalsmeer's location is the world's largest trade center. The Auction Building of Aalsmeer Flower Auction is the third largest building in the world and has an area of ​​990,000 square meters. About 20 million flowers from all over the world (Europe, Colombia, Ethiopia, etc.) are traded daily at the Earl's Mail facility. This center is known for advanced processing and assembly facilities such as small bouquets. The auction center has a plant processing business for trade, export and decoration. Logistics services are ideal for processing large quantities of products quickly and efficiently.

Aalsmeer Flower Auction is the world's largest flower auction and the world's largest commercial building in the Netherlands (Guinness World Records, 2001) and provides flower and plant trade to producers, wholesalers and exporters all over the world . It is a producer cooperative with more than 3,500 member companies. Most of the flowers come from the Netherlands, but also from Israel, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and other countries. (Aalsmeer, referenced plantsgalore.com, 2009) About 20 million flower stalks a day are waiting for more than 1,000 buyers to bid. (Quoting Trunick P., logisticstoday.com, 2007)