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Outlook 2016: Fees, limited cargo space increase costs of imported flowers

by Christine Boldt; executive vice president at Association of Floral Importers of Florida in Miami. She can be reached at christine@afifnet.org. In the fall of 2015 the flower industry finally found some relief in the high cost of flowers from Ecuador when the United States Congress passed the extension of the Generalized System of Preferences. Unfortunately, […]

Integrated Pest Management: A Global Trend

The pest management is one of the biggest concerns for farmers around the world  regardless of the crop type. In order to avoid plague spreading farmers introduce different control methods, such as the physical labouring (curtain display or weed manual eradication, among others), the ethology control; which focuses on bugs behaviour (i.e. use of coloured […]