SMP-18010 Development of knew value chain for exotic tropical flowers from Costa Rica (BO-48-002-007)

The aim of the project is to analyse a business case for the optimal transportation and quality protocols for imports of tropical cut flowers into Europe. This includes an inventory of current tropical cut flower production in Costa Rica as well as an inventory of bottlenecks in the production-distribution chain and investigating current and future potential for export to NL. In addition, the potential for sea shipments of tropical flowers will be considered.