For the metre being , corona stay the most important particular in horticulture . The financial results in 2020 were on average well than expected . Still , we should be careful . Many coronavirus criterion are still in effect in most European country . This affect the emptor of yield , vegetables , flowers and industrial plant . What ’s in store for Dutch horticulture ? Find out in this update .
Uncertainty in the market causes low drop-off in barometerThe Rabo Horticultural Barometer reach a value of 6.7 in the first fourth part of 2021 , see Figure 1 . The public presentation of most companies was sufficient to good in 2020 . Their liquid was also more than sufficient .
Yet the barometer score dropped slightly . This seems to be principally due to the uncertainty concerning the coronavirus . Businesses do not acknowledge when the restriction in their industry will be over and how corona will influence sale and operations in the longer condition . Income from support plan is also not clear yet for each single company . The hospitality industry is still far from recovering and many companies are understaffed . Temporary employees may be more unmanageable to find out this time of year . The humble sexual conquest is due to the projection , not from last season .
carefulness is central for vegetables under glass in 20212020 was a good class for vegetables under glass growers . After the crop rotation , and with the first products back on the securities industry , everyone is a guardedly positive . Four points stand out . First of all , we see an enlargement of bell shape Piper nigrum and ( lighted ) cucumber acreage . In summation , production can be dissemble by problems stimulate by the virus in , for lesson , tomato plant and cucumbers . Thirdly , there is precariousness about export to the United Kingdom ( UK ) . Although this has been sane to appointment , there have been some difficultness in transport and customs clearance . And last , the consequences of this pandemic . Although on-line sales event are still performing well , sales to eatery , ship’s company canteens or outcome are doing very ill .
Positive outlook for fruit cultivationThe hard yield harvest was a few months ago . The price for apples of Dutch pedigree have remained good . For pears , toll were significantly lower .
Strawberries had a skilful season . Large sales organizations offer unspoiled prices for this year ’s spring yield . They require to ensure they have sufficient deliveries this year . The other intersection on the subdued yield marketplace ( blueberry bush , Bronx cheer , blackberry bush ) give a very mixed picture .
No crisis , but uncertainness for ornamentalsUntil mid - December things looked salutary for the cut flowers and potted works market . After that , major market ( florists and garden centers ) closed by the new cadence . Fortunately , a bombastic part of the common output in December ( poinsettia , Helleborus , Ilex , Amaryllis ) was already sold by then .
Prices for cut flower pass afterwards , but these were still sold . However , the events and wedding industry is still under pressure . The need for plants has been slightly reduced due to the problems of get to the ending customer . Selling plants through on-line communication channel does offer opportunities .
Bulb polish wait and seeThere is a lot of uncertainty in the heyday bulb industriousness . This is due to the tardy exportation of bloom bulbs last year and the issue of the coronavirus . Yet the time of year ended well than we could have thought six month before . For instance , exporters had little write - offs for deliveries of flower bulbs .
The tulip breeding season start well in 2021 . Because of the dissimilar memory board closures , growers are implicated about the sales for the coming calendar month . Lily prices seem to have passed the low-pitched point . But it remain a conservative recovery .
origin : Rabobank
