Iberflora speak to Josep Maria Pagès , Secretary General of the European Nurserystock Association ( ENA ) , the European Association of Nurseries .
How do you valuate the current position of nursery in Spain after two years since the beginning of the pandemic ? And in the same agency , What is your opinion on this in Europe??In the first calendar month of the pandemic it seemed that a catastrophe was looming for the sector . It was a tough few month , citizen stay on at home for week on end , weekends and working days to contemplate and , many , telecommuting . That is why bringing nature to our homes became a necessity and we take the chance to put more industrial plant inside the business firm and in the gardens . Also the City Councils project it essential to have fleeceable spaces close to their citizen . He " cocoon effect " was global , and across Europe requirement for plants remains strong and driving the sector .
What consequences can the conflict between Ukraine and Russia have on the European nursery sector?They are irregular . What is certain is that the consequences for Ukrainians are horrific ; I do n’t suppose there ’s anything worse than a warfare . The ENA get together in summertime 2019 we did it precisely in Kyiv , utterly form by the Ukrainian association . We visit nursery and garden center , standardized to ours , and we saw a thriving public horticulture business . One of those we visit is now in the midsection of a warfare zone on the outskirts of Kyiv . They have assumed that they must maintain the country and then start from cacography . Many European glasshouse are host Ukrainian families . It ’s a cataclysm ; allow ’s desire it ends soon .
Trade between Ukraine and the EU , very important in other agricultural products , it is less so for nursery plants . Nonetheless , several EU nursery that had trade relations with Ukraine have been affected . , buy output there or trade plant to them .
Moreover , export directly to Russia was already difficult for a few years , when they legislated that they could only spell plants from EU nurseries approved by Russian phytosanitary authority . Despite this phytosanitary roadblock , EU trade with Russia was important . Living plants represented in 2020 a 7,3 % of EU agricultural exports to Russia . In term of dependance , the 20,0 % of the EU ’s total exportation of peak and plants go to Russia in 2020 .
Global instability could also rarify exports to other nation to the south of Russia . The addition in Price of many raw materials , that see passenger a few month ago , incriminate that nurseries will have to lift their cut-rate sale prices , which can lead in a slowdown in demand . For all these reasonableness , the panorama is complex . , but we trust that the benefits , the need to have plants at family and in public space , keep demand high as is take place at the moment .
How do you remember the in vogue Pentateuch and regulations such as the reform of the CAP or the Food Chain Law will touch the nursery sector?With these laws we see the ignorance of the Ministry of Agriculture of what is the Spanish glasshouse sector , probably because we have not been capable to explain it well . We trust that the implementation of the CAP reform by the Ministry will intend that Spanish greenhouse will soon have access to area aid as baby’s room in the other EU fellow member state have always had . , and also aid for their producer organisations .
As for the Law of the Chain , in my opinion it does not make mother wit to apply it to the greenhouse sector ; the heterotaxy of the European Unfair Practices Directive would have been sufficient . It is not a sector that sells one crop of one product a twelvemonth to a turgid purchaser with a dominant position , nurseries sell hundreds of dissimilar products every day to many unlike customers . The bureaucracy that will ask sending each contract bridge to the Ministry before the loading of the industrial plant will be unbearable for small-scale companies and will imply an increment in pregnant administrative costs in the others ..
In 2021 the European Green Cities initiative promoted by ENA started , which currently takes station in 13 How do you rate the programme ? , about to reach its equator?Have 13 European countries doing a joint promotion is , already in itself , a succeeder . The campaign is truly European , but it has a varying volume to adapt to the needs of each commonwealth , according to the interest of each nursery association .
The main objective of the safari is to sensitize decision - manufacturer in cities -architects , deviser , politicians , urban managers , landscape painting architects , real estate pro , etc.- on the benefits of fleeceable cities : plant kick in to mitigating climate change , increase citizen ' well - being and societal cohesion , and better biodiversity and the urban economic system . Professionals are reached principally through conferences and professional meetings , organized forthwith or participating in fairs or congresses . Inwww.thegreencities.euyou can follow the events and the entropy that is being published .
Will we be able-bodied to see him again in Iberflora in his edition 2022 ? What has actuate you the most to hang the competition in its late editions??I cartel to be in Iberflora also in 2022 . Just like I ’m in person at home for Christmas , professionally I need to be in Iberflora every year . Directly sense the pulse of the sphere , see what is done , what raw companies and new product exhibit , it ’s important to me as a technician . See us in Iberflora face to face with all the friends of the sphere , after a year or more of telematics - only contact , as well as rewarding , bring to strengthening and improving sexual relation with other associations , companies and instauration .
Iberflora is preparing a new , more experiential and innovative concept in 2022 What do you expect from the next version of Iberflora?The reward of Iberflora is that it has a magnificent team , who do not head for the hills the fair locked in an agency , but they go out a flock and have the advice of a committee of professionals from different companies and backgrounds . All the fairs have had two very unmanageable years due to Covid , but they have also served to introduce and risk of infection trying . Sure Iberflora 2022 will be a new success .
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