COLOMBIA: COLOMBIA'S ROSE GROWERS PREPARE FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

Record ID: 588583

  • Title: COLOMBIA: COLOMBIA'S ROSE GROWERS PREPARE FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
  • Date: 12th February 2004
  • Summary: (W1) BOJACA, COLOMBIA (FEBRUARY 12, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL ) 1. WIDE OF GREENHOUSES WHERE FLOWERS ARE GROWN 0.04 2. SLV MAN WITH HORSE AND CART 0.09 3. VARIOUS OF WOMAN WORKING IN GREENHOUSE 0.22 4. VARIOUS OF WOMEN WORKING IN FLOWER NURSERY (3 SHOTS) 0.31 5. CLOSE UP OF COLOMBIA ROSE 0.35 6. VARIOUS OF FLOWER/ ROSE BEDS 0.38 7. VARIOUS OF WOMEN WORKING WITH FLOWERS (3 SHOTS) 0.50 9. VARIOUS OF GREENHOUSE WITH ROSES GROWING IN POTS (2 SHOTS) 0.59 10. CLOSE OF ROSE 1.02 (W1) BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (FEBRUARY 12, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) AUGUSTO SOLANO, PRESIDENT OF THE COLOMBIAN FLOWER ASSOCIATION, SAYING: "In terms of volume, we are talking about somewhere around twelve, fourteen per cent of our total production that we are moving for this date. Annually, we export some eleven, twelve million boxes, this time it's more than a million boxes that we are exporting for Valentine's Day." 1.19 (W1) BOJACA, COLOMBIA (FEBRUARY 12, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL ) 12. WIDE/ PAN OF PLACE WHERE FLOWERS ARE CUT AND PACKED 1.27 13. VARIOUS OF WORKERS PACKING AND CUTTING FLOWERS 1.36 14. VARIOUS OF WOMAN MAKING UP BOUQUET OF FLOWERS 1.47 (W1) BOGOTA, COLOMBIA , (FEBRUARY 12, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 15. VARIOUS OF MAN LOOKING AT INTERNET SCREEN AT PICTURES OF BUNCHES OF FLOWERS 1.54 16. WIDE OF WOMAN IN SHOP ARRANGING FLOWERS 1.56 17. VARIOUS OF ROSES 2.02 18. VARIOUS OF WOMAN ARRANGING FLOWERS 2.09 19. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ADRIANA SATIZABAL, FLOWER ARRANGER, SAYING: "I felt the need to arrange, beautiful things that people could appreciate, not the typical arrangement. I think we need to leave behind the typical and surprise, excite people that are getting flowers." 2.22 20. WIDE / PAN OF TRUCK OUTSIDE FLOWER WAREHOUSE 2.26 21. SMV MAN CARRYING CARTON OF FLOWERS FROM WAREHOUSE 2.28 22. WIDE / PAN OF MEN IN WAREHOUSE WITH BOXES OF FLOWERS 2.37 23. CLOSE OF MAN LIFTING CONTAINERS OF ROSES 2.40 24. VARIOUS OF BOXES OF PACKAGED FLOWERS BEING LIFTED ON TO CONVEYOR BELT TO GO THROUGH SECURITY MACHINE 2.47 25. CLOSE OF WORKER VIEWING MONITOR OF SECURITY SCREEN 2.51 26. SLV MEN UNLIFTING FLOWERS FROM SECURITY DEVICE 2.55 27. VARIOUS OF FLOWER BOXES BEING PASSED THROUGH SECURITY 28. VARIOUS OF FLOWER BOXES BEING ORGANIZED (3 SHOTS) 3.07 29. VARIOUS OF ANTI NARCOTICS AGENT LOOKING THROUGH FLOWERS 3.18 30. VARIOUS OF COLD ROOM WHERE FLOWERS ARE STORED (2 SHOTS) 3.27 31. VARIOUS OF WORKERS MOVING TROLLEYS OF BOXES OF FLOWERS (4 SHOTS) 3.46 32. WIDE OF WAREHOUSE WITH BPXES OF FLOWERS WITH PLANE SEEN IN BACKGROUND (2 SHOTS) 3.51 23. ROOM WHERE FLOWERS ARE STORED AND PRESERVED Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA AND BOJACA, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Reuters ID: LVAIG3CITSK0YY1M2EK9CEP2LF0
  • Story Text: Colombia's flower industry gears up for Valentines
    Day.




    Colombia's flourishing rose industry has been
    working overtime for their most important event of the
    year, Valentine's Day.

    The largest producer of cut flowers after Holland,
    Colombia has exported more than one million boxes of roses
    for February 14, mostly to the United States.

    "In terms of volume, we are talking about somewhere
    around twelve, fourteen per cent of our total production
    that we are moving for this date." said Augusto Solano,
    President of the Colombian Flower Association. "Annually,
    we export some eleven, twelve million boxes, this time its
    more than a million boxes that we are exporting for
    Valentine's Day."
    The flower industry generates more than 160,000 jobs in
    Colombia, sixty five per cent of these positions go to
    women, who are thought to handle flowers with more delicacy
    and precision than men.

    "I felt the need to design beautiful things that people
    could appreciate," said Adriana Satizabal, a flower
    arranger. "Not the typical arrangement. I think we need to
    leave behind the typical and surprise, excite people that
    are getting flowers."
    Colombia expects to receive more than 700 million
    dollars from its flower exports in 2004.



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