Felipe Gomez, Selecta One
Chrysanthemums in Malaysia and Vietnam
At their first visited country, Malaysia, they arrived to Kuala Lumpur airport and drove one hour and a half through a landscape of palm oil crop. Surrounded by tropical vegetation full of big trees and plants a small mountain road took them another hour and a half to reach their destination, Cameron Highland. Cameron Highland, Malaysia is the place where Chrysanthemums are being grown among other horticulture products.
They visited Notre Dame, Sunligh Flowers, Daido Hana – Taithong Flower Nursery – Universal Farm, Mou Guan Farm among other chrysanthemum growers, all producing high quality flowers to export to Japan, Thailand, China, Australia and New Zealand.
Selecta varieties can help growers in Malaysia improve their productivity due to a short cycle, heavy stem quality and long vase life adding value to their operations. The most relevant varieties chosen by Selecta's costumers are: Asuka, Yamato, pink cushion (13-0054), red cushion (13-0340), bronze cushion (12-0620), white cushion (13-0311), and pink daisy (13-0224), purple and white daisy (13-0205).
They continued with the second part of their trip, flying to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) in Vietnam. From Ho Chi Minh they took a domestic flight to Dalat, a beautiful area with horticulture production at 1500 – 1000 meters above sea level.
Dalat Hasfarm, one of the biggest players in the floral business in Asia, walked them through their operation of chrysanthemums, giving the opportunity to present the Selecta chrysanthemum program.
They also visited the PAN-Saladbowl and Greencom Japan, who in a joint venture are preparing a chrysanthemum program seeing opportunities in the Japanese market with Selecta varieties. Eyeing opportunities the Chinese market has to offer, Langbiang Farm is also going to try Selecta varieties.
This article originally appeared in Selecta's FloralNews magazine.
For more information:
Selecta One
Felipe Gomez
f.gomez@selecta-one.com
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