Mexico is often named as one of those area having a huge untapped potentiality for high - technical school floriculture production . Climate , availability of all potential resource , infrastructure , immense markets around the corner , all is at helping hand . It is , therefore , as if the market is waitress for something to get the ball peal . Hoping to initiate this floriculture boom , the first major floriculture stage business middling in the country , the Ornamental Plants & Flowers México powered by IPM Essen , will be orchestrate in the Centro Citibinamex exhibition center , Mexico City , September 18 - 20 .
This fair will be organised in close cooperation with Messe Essen , and what better here and now to present this new opening than at the IPM ESSEN itself ? Back in January we were lucky to meet with instigator Torben Brinkman of Messe Essen and Enrique Arias Velazco of Ornamental Plants & Flowers ( OPF ) Mexico .
Oscar Jiménez León ( Jardines de México ) , Torben Brinkman ( Messe Essen ) , Enrique Arias Velazco ( OPF ) , Thomas Soder ( adviser ) and Francisco Antonio Lozano Alcaraz ( Palmeral )
With over 23,000 hectare of floriculture production , quite a magnanimous business is already in place . In Mexico one can discover almost every be mood zones . The land hosts a huge biodiversity , ( young ) labour is abundantly present , roads and infrastructural hub are in place , and space is extravagantly available . However , the marketplace is not on the international industriousness ’s mind , and frailty versa Mexican floral manufacturer hardly present themselves abroad . At the IPM ESSEN , for example , only three Mexican political party were present . Today , the fruits & flower of large scale domestic production of both vegetable and floriculture crop is largely destined for the local market .
“ Based on these findings we consider Mexico is quick for an international horticulture business enterprise fair ” , Torben says . “ Local producer are eager to benefit from noesis and supplies of major international players within the greenhouse diligence , while the market itself is proffer commercial-grade opportunities . Especially in terms of potted plant the Mexican market place has Brobdingnagian possibleness . Cut flowers are produced in Colombia and Ecuador , but ( finish ) plants on the North - American market are either home grown or not grown at all . ”
“ Besides , this business deal would offer new position for restoring the troubled business deal telling with the US ” Arias Velazco add together . “ Apart from a new mostly roadblock - devoid trade recounting with the European Union , the timing is especially primed with an oculus to the recent signing of the young trade deal USMCA - the United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement . This wad replaces NAFTA , a similar deal but with some restraints now aborted . For model , for Mexican producers it should now be easier to ship out good to the North America . ”
finally , everyone concerned should in spades grab the opportunity to come , for at the same time it proffer a great opportunity to be introduced to the local market as well . According to Arias , no less than 70 percentage of the floricultural output is locate within two to three hour take from the City .
After China , Russia and the United Arab Emirates , the IPM in Mexico will be the organisation ’s fourth offshoot . At the honest , four different sub sphere will be represent : bloom and works , ( greenhouse ) technology , floristry and ornament , and garden & landscape gardening .
For more information : www.ipm - essen.dewww.opfexpo.com
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