Covid-19 disrupts African flower producers
African flower producers are struggling as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts supply chains and demand dries up amid national lockdowns
14 May 2020 - 05:00
On her company’s farm in the fruit-growing Breede River Valley in the Western Cape, Adene Nieuwoudt’s usually neat dahlia plantations resemble a small jungle. The soft pastel and deep burgundy blooms have become too heavy for the thin stems, and they’ve fallen over.
"We’re not picking flowers any more," she says, because they are not being bought. "We’re leaving them to bloom out and then we’ll pull up all the plants."..
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