Growers in Kenya are being severely affected by the conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran. Air freight rates have risen sharply, and cargo capacity is limited. The returns no longer outweigh the costs, causing large quantities of flowers to be destroyed at the nurseries.
Thomas Fransen, General Manager of Timaflor in Kenya, already wrote about it in his column for Bloemisterij magazine at the end of March, saying that the shredder at their rose farm in Timau, near Mount Kenya, had been working overtime. A portion of the flowers is being destroyed. Why? Because they are simply too expensive to be flown to the Netherlands. “We have been through this once before, and things were far more severe then, so there is no real panic just yet,” Fransen wrote.
