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Can Singapore's orchid industry bloom again?

Amid a sharp slump in the global orchid trade and daunting local conditions, farmers here hope to chart their future with the National Parks Board (NParks) to ensure that the celebrated native flora can continue to blossom.

Local orchid production fell to a 10-year low in 2016, according to most recent statistics of the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA).

Between 2007 and 2016, orchid production fell starkly by 40 per cent — from 10 million to six million stalks.

Production peaked at about 11 million stalks in 2011. That year, the Republic also saw the highest trade value from orchid exports, amounting to US$23.4 million.

Over the same decade, the value of Singapore’s orchid exports fell 45 per cent, from US$16.1 million in 2007 to US$8.9 million in 2016, according to the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database.

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