Dutch March Flower Exports Fall 10% as Cold Weather Hurts Demand

The Netherlands’ flower and plant exports, the world’s biggest, dropped 10 percent in March after shipments of potted plants slumped to most European destinations on freezing weather.

Shipments were 569.4 million euros ($745.5 million) last month from 634.3 million euros in March 2012, the Aalsmeer, Netherlands-based Dutch Agricultural Wholesale Board for Flowers and Plants wrote in an online report today.