A WORLD OF FLOWERS
5.3%
GROWTH
Compound Annual
Growth Rate
Source: Global Industry Analysts Inc., 2024; Dun & Bradstreet, 2024; Markets and Markets, 2024; AIPH, 2022
$36.4B - $50.1B
2022 2027
735 500
HECTARES
Total Cut Flower
Production Area
GLOBAL ISSUES
SLOW FLOWER MOVEMENT
Thörning, Ahlklo, & Spendrup, 2022; Prinzing, 2017
Photo: Kendi Orange (2023)Photo: PIA (2022)
Photo: Manlapig (2019)Photo: Benalla (2014)
$4.935M
3.5%
HVC
EXPORTS
GROWTH
HIGH VALUE CROP
PHILIPPINES - EMERGING
DOMESTIC PRODUCER (AIPH)
ORNAMENTALS PRODUCTION
GROWTH (2016-2020)
DESIGNATED BY DA IN HVCDP -
IMPROVE PRODUCTION (DA)
Source: DA Memorandum circular no. 09, 2022; AIPH, 2019
WASTEUNDERSUPPLY
PROBLEM
INFRASTRUCTURE
“...there are only a few growers, and
our local supply is not enough.”
- Mr. Jesus Felipe Subingsubing, Leyte
“There’s no machine that can harvest
roses better than a human being.”
- Mr. Arnold Andaya, President -
Philippine Cut Flower Corp.
Nisperos, 2016 Antonio, 2022
UNDERSUPPLY
Source: Cardeno & Fernando, 2018; Antonio, 2022
Philippine Creative
Industries Development
Act of 2022
POLICY FRAMEWORKS
Philippine Agriculture
and Fisheries Extension
Strategic Plan 2023-2028
Ornamentals as Priority
Crops of HVCDP
(DA Memo. Circ. 09, 2022)
Ornamentals commodity
industry roadmap
Strengthening Research
Extension linkages
Infrastructure as support
for creative industry
FLOWER
BUYERS
FLOWER
GROWERS
FLOWER
RESEARCHERS
SITE CONSIDERATIONS
NATIVE
FLOWERS
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 9
ALIMBUKÁS
Floralcentrum
A Proposed Floriculture Artisanal Complex in Los Baños, Laguna
References
“The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.”
isaiah 40:8
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businessman-tells-story-blooming-cutflower-enterprise-lowland-leyte
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https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/362134/cut_flowers_global_strategic_business_report
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https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/cut-flowers-market-18187231.html
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https://devconetwosix.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/fresh-from-the-flower-fields-stories-from-the-bayog-florists/
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