According to the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Colombia exported $1.4 billion in fresh cut flowers globally with approximately 80% of them going to the United States in ...

According to the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Colombia exported $1.4 billion in fresh cut flowers globally with approximately 80% of them going to the United States in ...

And even as Colombia's unemployment rate nearly doubled last year to 20.2%, almost all of the country's 140,000 flower workers kept their jobs.

In the last 20 years, Colombia has turned into a major exporter of two products. One is illegal. The other is flowers. Although many Americans associate Colombia with cocaine exports, few might ...

By Valentine's Day 2025, airport officials estimated that more than 90,000 tons of fresh-cut flowers arrived at the airport.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA "“ January 4, 2008 Dole Food Company, announced today that Dole Fresh Flowers has received the Florverde Certification at its farm operations in Colombia, South America. The ...

Fifty years ago, Colombia shipped its first batch of fresh-cut flowers to Miami ($20,000 worth of carnations by some accounts) and jump-started a billion-dollar industry.

Approximately 12 tons of fresh-cut flowers from South America are flown into DFW every Week. The flowers are brought from Bogota, Colombia and then distributed throughout Texas, according to a ...

GUASCA, COLOMBIA — It's rush hour inside the plastic greenhouses and metal sheds at Wayuu Flowers, where farmhands clip 30 varieties of roses, grade their stems and bulbs, and box the bunches ...

Inexpensive imported stems - what you mainly see in grocery stores - have shrunk the market for American flowers. This year, Colombia will picked and pack 700 million flowers.