The decreasing time value of the Turkish currency result in a dramatic increase in imported product prices in the nation . Rose , one of the main imported items in floriculture , has been affect importantly by this increase and now rose prices are quite more expensive compared to previous long time .
As a termination , local rose growers are prepare to increase their yield by 30 – 40 % to fulfil the local marketplace requirement . Yalova is one of the most important output region in Turkey in curve bloom and ornamental plants and the growers in the area are train for increase product capacity .
Korukoy Agricultural Development Cooperative Chairman Mustafa Kanar : “ spell roses is becoming less and less viable and practicable in these market place conditions . We need to utilise this opportunity to increase our yield and meet the demand in the market . There are around 400 uprise agriculturalist in the area and the increase demand is making our growers happy . Most of the flower store do not buy spell roses any longer because of the Leontyne Price and they opt local products . Our products are not lacking in quality compare to import rose and if there is demand , we can always increase production . “
Rose agriculturalist Oktay Akgun : “ There is more demand for our rosebush justly now , we are very promising of the coming March – June 2019 time of year and in my company I have up my production by 20 to 25 % . A lot of the firms which used to spell roses from abroad are now ordinate from us . We trust 2019 will be much profitable for us and for all the other growers in the region . ”
Melike Isik , a sales event responsible for for a rose grower in the area , “ We are preparing our production so we can satisfy local orders and demand . We are already meet with local companies to accord on commercial-grade deals for the upcoming time of year . ”Another agriculturalist Omer Salman : “ We will increase our production by 40 % due to increase need , a lot of wholesalers are now in touch with us to place orders . They have informed us that they will stop with the leverage of imported roses for a period of time now .
The fact that Turkey is importing roses is one of the chief indicator of the Turkish economy ’s problem with current account shortfall . In 2015 , 3 million USD deserving of roses were import whereas this number increased to 5 million USD in 2017 . According to the 2015 information , Turkey import roses mostly from Netherlands with 2.6 million stems follow by Kenya with 2.3 million stems and Turkmenistan with 1 million fore . Cut flowers are the 2d most important exportation item in Kenya and in term of import value in Turkey in cut bloom , they are at the top . Netherlands is bring in 3.8 billion USD annually just from flower and plant life exports . Colombia is exporting product worth 1.4 billion USD . On the other hand Turkey , despite all of its potential and good geographical placement to many export destinations such as Russia , Middle East and Europe , exports only 35 million USD worth of flowers .
