Posted by admin | Posted in News about Flowers | Posted on 13-12-2006
THE price of Christmas trees may rise this year due to a shortage of firs in Denmark, Europe’s leading exporter of the trees.
“We see a 10-15 per cent price increase,” said Kaj Oestergaard, manager
of the Danish Christmas tree growers’ association.
The popular nordmann fir will cost approximately 130-140 kroner (?11.70-?12.60) per metre, he said.
Denmark exported about 85 per cent of the nine million Christmas trees felled last year in the Scandinavian country.
Britain, Germany and France top the list of countries importing Danish trees.
However, Denmark’s production has been declining since 2004, when many growers went out of business because of falling prices, Mr Oestergaard said
Source: www.scotsman.com