Floriculture in Canada

The worldwide floriculture industry is worth well over 30 billion U.S dollars and demand, as well as production, is on the rise.[1] Though Canada is not one of the major floriculture producers worldwide, this industry remains of importance to the nation.

Introduction

In 2001, the Canadian floriculture industry was valued at $904 million CAD.[2] To give a more recent figure, Canadian floricultural farm cash receipts in 2013 totalled $1.09 billion CAD.[3] In 2011, there were 2,278 floricultural farms in Canada.[4] Of the provinces, Ontario has the greatest share in this industry—nearly 45% in 2004.[5] Correspondingly Ontario dominates in exports to the U.S.[6] 9,500 people of mainly Dutch and Danish background were employed by Ontario's floriculture industry in 2004.[5] Southern Ontario's strategic location within 12 hours by road of half of the U.S. urban population is cited as one of the major sources of its success in floriculture.[5] Clearly the floriculture industry is quite important to Canada and especially to Ontario.

References
  1. De Groot, N.S.P. (1998). Floriculture worldwide trade and consumption patterns. World conference of Horticultural Research, Actahort.org.
  2. Miller, M.M. (2001). "Floriculture industry overview: production, sales and marketing in North America". Acta Hort. (ISHS) 543:23-29
  3. Statistics Canada (2014). "Farm cash receipts 2013". Accessed November 22, 2014.
  4. Statistics Canada (2014). Census of Agriculture, farms classified by the North American industry classification. Accessed November 22, 2014.
  5. Reid, N., & Carroll, M. (2005). "Using Cluster-Based Economic Development to Enhance the Economic Competitiveness of Northwest Ohio's Greenhouse Nursery Industry". In Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences (Vol. 28, p. 309). [np]; 1998.
  6. Reid, N., Smith, B. W., Gatrell, J. D., & Carroll, M. C. (2009). "Importing Change: Canadian Competition and the US Floriculture Industry". The Industrial Geographer, 6(1), 3-19.
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