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On a previous Orchid Guide, the following posting was made:
On July 13 2006, a Peruvian Government document referred to as
Decreto Supremo No. 043-2006-AG announced that Peruvian Orchid Nurseries may no
longer export collected orchids. From now on all orchids exported must have been
propagated in-vitro. It has orchid nursery owners in an uproar, for most of them
do not have any stock propagated in-vitro and many do not even have a
laboratory. Some have operated this way for decades.. Nursery owners tell
me that there is no lead in time given, which you and I know should be 7 years
minimum, if your intend is not to destroy the orchid industry of your country.
They all blame a given orchid nursery for suggesting the new laws to the
government and conveniently forgetting to tell them to give a lead in time. That
nursery started a lab a few years ago, is claiming to have propagated large
quantities of flasks of different species, but the victims of this new law claim
they purchased them from other orchid laboratories.
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The following is a copy of the letter written to the Peruvian agency INRENA
by the Moores of Miami and Peru: Ing. Alberto Morizaki INRENA
Intendente Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre Autoridad Administrative CITES/PE LIMA Subject: Decreto Supremo No.
043-2006-AG Estimado Ing.
Morizaki: I am Zadith Alegria de Moore, owner of the Vivero Nuevo
Destino in Moyobamba. In reference to Decreto Supremo No. 043-2006-AG, we
question the legality and constitutionality of this decree that has been imposed
upon us at the last minute without having been previously notified of this
impending decree to have the opportunity to discuss and oppose this drastic
decision that affects all of the legal orchid exporters in Peru. From one day to the next, we are being
expected to export only orchids reproduced in vitro that do not exist. Overnight, our nurseries have been
forced to close exportations by this unreasonable decree violating our
Constitutional rights to free enterprise.
For many years we have been reproducing and propagating
thousands of many species of orchids by vegetative means very successfully and
we are now expected to make this transition to plants produced only in vitro
overnight. This in not only
unreasonable but an impossibility because most orchid plants from seed in vitro
requires 5 or more years to produce small plants and then 2 more years to
produce flowering plants of reasonable size for export. This means that we will have to close
our nursery for 5-7 years until we can begin exporting again which is an absurd
impossibility that is being imposed upon us. How are we expected to survive and make
a living in the mean time. No country in the world has ever imposed or required such
a drastic transition because they understand the reality of orchid
production. Only INRENA/PERU. This reality can be confirmed by any
qualified world class expert on the propagation of orchids which, apparently,
are none in INRENA/PERU. It is also
obvious that the person or persons that compiled this list of prohibited plants
has no valid knowledge of orchids because there are many names of species on
that list that do not even exist and others that do not exist in Peru but in
other countries. Even Bromeliads
are required to be reproduced in vitro for exportation. Everyone knows that Bromeliads are not
and cannot be reproduced in vitro.
This only displays the ignorance of the authors of this list. In other words, the authors of this
Supreme Decree are not qualified to make such decisions that drastically affect
the orchid exporters. What are the exporters now expected to do with the
thousands of orchids that we have been reproducing and propagating over many
years? These plants now have no
value because they are prohibited for exportation. They will now have to be destroyed to
make bench space for new plants produced only in vitro because bench space is
very valuable in a nursery. In
other words our nurseries will have to go bankrupt because we cannot wait 5
years for these new plants to make the first flowers and then 2 more years grow
to a reasonable size for export. The Peruvian Government invites foreign capital to invest
in Peruvian industry. Over the past
8 years we have invested over $300,000 U.S. from our business in Miami to
develop Vivero Nuevo Destino in Moyobamba to reproduce and propagate orchid
species for export and contribute to the economy of Peru and our employees. Now we are prohibited to export what we
have reproduced. This is not a very
good incentive for the Peruvian Government to invite foreign capital for
investment. We will now have to
declare bankruptcy and abandon our project in Moyobamba because it is impossible
to continue this business with unreasonable and impossible
restrictions. If INRENA would make a proper study with qualified
experts on orchid reproduction, they would determine that this decree is not
only unreasonable but also impossible and unrealistic to be
accomplished. The only practical and reasonable way for INRENA to limit
the exportation of orchid plants produced only in vitro, would be for INRENA to
announce to the orchid exporters that INRENA will allow the exporters seven
years from the date of this Supreme Decree, to prepare their nurseries for this
transition. This would give the
exporters a reasonable opportunity to make the transition from vegetative
propagation to vitro.
Perhaps INRENA is convinced that Peruflora can achieve
this miraculous accomplishment in less than two years as they have claimed; but
the rest of the exporters and expert orchid growers of the world do not possess
the knowledge of how to achieve this miraculous accomplishment. We do not wish
to attempt to deceive INRENA like Peruflora has
done. It is obvious that this new decree was designed to
benefit only one orchid exporter.
Peruflora has successfully deceived and convinced INRENA that they have
achieved this miraculous accomplishment in less than 2 years in order to obtain
a monopoly of orchid exportation in Peru with the blessings of INRENA. The world and the rest of the exporters
know that this is impossible. This
is not a very complimentary image for
INRENA. It has come to our attention that Peruflora continues to
advertise and export their orchids that are on the prohibited list of D.S.
043-06AG that are claimed to be reproduced in vitro. This confirms that this D.S. is designed
only to give Peruflora the sole monopoly for the exportation of Peruvian orchids
and not for the protection of the orchids from being
endangered. We, the orchid exporters, will be asking for a formal
investigation into this irregular procedure to question the legality and
constitutionality of this abuse that is being forced upon us with D.S. 043-06AG
without the exporters prior knowledge.
Further, we will formally be requesting that an independent, world
class expert on the reproduction of orchids in vitro, to investigate the
nurseries of Peruflora to determine the validity of their claims of having all
of these species of available that INRENA is allowing for export. Also to investigate the validity of the
published list of orchids in D.S 043-06AG, some of which do not exist and others
that do not even occur in Peru, which will prove that the authors of this list
were not capable or qualified for making such decisions that has drastically
affected our financial investments in Peru. This will be executed at our expense
and become available for Public Information to those that may be
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