Canada ornamental horticulture industry, including flowers (Floriculture, including cut flowers, cut leaves, flower, foliage plants and bedding plants), nurseries, Christmas trees and lawn. According to the introduction of the Canadian agricultural officials, agricultural output in 2004 of $ 2.1 billion Canadian dollars, second only to wheat (24 million) and canola (Canola, 23 billion) is the third largest crop; to farm cash revenue, garden products accounted for 40%, 6% of total agricultural income. Which accounted for 46% of flowers, nursery industry accounts for 26%, 5% of trees and grass 3%. Consumers in this industry on the estimated $ 12 billion Canadian dollars traced.
Wholesale estimates, ornamental horticulture industry is mainly grown in Ontario accounted for 45%, followed by Quebec, 21%, 13% of British Columbia, other provinces together accounted for 21%. Landscape gardening is the fastest growing in the Ministry of Agriculture, the first 20 years of annual growth of 9%. Now, more than 26,000 companies, employing 200,000 people, which is about 5.1 million people employed in production, employing 3.6 million flowers, and nursery industry employs 1.3 million people. Flower farm in 2001, 4,024 homes, 4,530 homes and nursery industry, representing 5% of all farms in Canada, the total number of enterprises decreased by 7% compared with 1996, which means expanding the area of operation is the most potential for development of crops and high value crops.
Flower greenhouse in 1996 to 690 ha by 2001 to 846 hectares, an increase of 23%. Flower greenhouse area per farm from 1996 to 0.16 hectares in 2001 to 0.21 hectares, the area increased by 32%; nursery industry in 1996 the average area of 4.44 hectares each, in 2001 to 5.03 hectares, an increase of 13%, while the species lawn seller, from 52.05 hectares, increased to 62.58 hectares, an increase of 20%.
Canada due to their location is a high latitude, cold winter, greenhouse heating energy consuming, along with rising global oil prices, reduced production in the country rose, and replant tulips and Gerbera cut flowers. Canada’s export value of ornamental horticulture in 2004 Canadian dollars 453 million yuan, 10-year annual growth rate of 14%, mainly ornamental nursery stock exported to the United States accounted for 98%, such as high then rose and crabapple (Crabapple). Export production status of 61% in Ontario, British Columbia (Bristish Columbia) Province Quebec accounted for 15% and 10%; 2004 import value of 395 million Canadian dollars, mainly from the United States accounted for 46%, Netherlands 18%, Colombia 16% and 8% in Ecuador, where the main nursery supplies from the United States and the Netherlands, such as roses or some small rootstock seedlings, mainly because of Canada’s cold weather, high cost of reproduction’s sake. The flowers are mainly from Colombia and Ecuador supply. Overall, exports exceeded imports. Peninsula in Ontario, subject to the impact of Ontario, the temperature is more warm, the soil is sandy loam alluvial lake is very beneficial to seedlings fertility. However, heat energy imports more expensive and inexpensive cut flowers, so that gradually reduce the export advantage. Should find suitable flower species, such as cold strong and the development of new crops, grass seed is another important product sales increase abroad.
Canadians spending less on ornamental horticulture Europeans “flower” as a daily necessity, but also stay in luxury, and occasionally before buying the concept. 1995 per capita consumption of 25 flowers from 1995 to 2002 Canadian dollars about 48 Canadian dollars, the main cause of this increase in real estate development and strengthening of social ecological concepts due.
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