Katya’s Moscow flower business is blooming.
Since there’s no sanctions on exporting cut flowers from the EU to Russia, her team of drivers is busy delivering bouquets around the Russian capital. In fact, business is so good, she’s about to fly off for another holiday in Dubai.
Exporting cut flowers to Russia was a business worth €9.4 million to EU producers last year according to the latest official statistics, with the majority of those flowers coming from the Netherlands.
Katya buys her flowers from a wholesaler, and tells Euronews about 30% of her fresh cut flowers these days come from the Netherlands, famed for its vast fields of springtime tulips, and while that’s still a lot of blooms, it’s less than it used to be, pre-war.
Dutch flowers have become more expensive, she says, while flowers from Kenya, Ecuador and Colombia are a bit cheaper to buy.
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