Already very affected by the health crisis, the plant sector is now dying.
"The situation is much more complex than last spring, particularly for the cut flowers sector,"
explains Mikaël Mercier, president of Val'hor, the French inter-professional organization for horticulture, floristry and landscape. same nurseryman in Brittany.
“This time, all of our flow channels are closed.
Neighborhood florists, but also large distribution and garden centers, neither of which have the right to sell our products. ”
Last April, the garden centers were, for example, allowed to reopen in mid-April because they also sold vegetable plants, considered essential.
Similar to books, flower shelves are now inexistent everywhere, on the pretext of unfair competition.
“But a flower is not a book
,” adds Mikaël Mercier.
Our products are perishable and we will have to throw them out. ”
The situation
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