NZ: Flower dumping puts Kiwi jobs at risk
Just on 3 million Indian roses flooded into New Zealand in 2013, at a landed price of 24 cents a stem, according to NZFGA president, David Blewden.
That figure blew out to 3.3 million stems in 2014 and was complemented by over 300,000 rose imports from Columbia.
“Local Kiwi growers can’t compete with those prices,” Mr Blewden said.
He said that central and regional Indian governments pay large subsidies to domestic growers to produce as much product as possible. The majority of this production is export oriented with a percentage of it coming to New Zealand at very cheap prices.
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