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Recent Trends in cut Flower Imports – Impact on the Floricultural Industry in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Elmar Jarvesoo*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
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Extract

Until recently, cut flower imports to the United States have been largely of non-competitive type – mostly minor novelty crops rarely produced locally, or crops out of production here seasonally.

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International Trade and Development
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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