"The 2008 Taiwan International Orchid Show ended... after attracting some 200,000 visitors... during its 10-day run at the Taiwan Orchid Plantation in the southern county of Tainan.
... the visitors included nearly 3,000 foreign floral experts and buyers. ... official figures on the value of orders placed at the show were... not available... sales were expected to reach NT$2 billion (US$64.69 million). The foreign buyers came from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates. ... The exhibition was organized by the Taiwan Orchid Growers Association and jointly sponsored by the Tainan County government and semi-official Taiwan External Trade Development Council. Orchid growers from 24 countries took part in the 2008 exhibition, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Orchids... accounting for over 50 per cent of the total value of Taiwan's horticultural exports... Taiwan... "Kingdom of the Butterfly Orchid"... it is the world's largest exporting country... About half the world's butterfly orchid varieties are bred in Taiwan. Taiwan exported NT$1.84 billion worth of orchids in 2006, a year-on-year increase of 24.1 per cent, with... phalaenopsis, accounting for NT$1.15 billion of the total... Taiwan's orchid export orders secured at the Taiwan International Orchid Show totaled NT$800 million in 2005, NT$1 billion in 2006 and NT$1.5 billion in 2007" URL : http://au.biz.yahoo.com/080318/17/1nppb.html **************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
