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Tocancipá (Colombia), Feb 11 (EFE).- (Camera: Juan Diego López) The enchantment of Colombian flowers travels the world, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to surprise those in love who on February 14 will celebrate an atypical Valentine's Day, a date by which the Andean country will export more than 700 million stems.FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE WORKING ON A FLOWER FARM IN TOCANCIPA.
Tocancipá (Colombia), Feb 11 (EFE) (CAMERA: Juan Diego López) .- The enchantment of Colombian flowers travels the world, despite the coronavirus pandemic, to surprise those in love on February 14.
Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Feb 12 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Legnan Koula) Abidjan's flower markets receive their customers on Friday before the Valentine's Day holiday.FOOTAGE OF A FLOWER MARKET IN ABIDJAN.
Tokyo, Jul 14 (EFE/EPA).- Residents of the Japanese capital city can now catch a glimpse of lotus flowers in full bloom at Ueno Park's Shinobazu Pond, which show their blooms in the morning.The pond is known for its green lily pads and vibrant pink lotus flowers which bloom from mid July to mid August. (Camera: FRANCK ROBICHON).SHOT LIST: LOTUS FLOWERS AT THE SHINOBAZU POND WITHIN UENO PARK IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Bogotá, Colombia Feb 12 (EFE) .- Colombia attends the finishing details for the most important date of the year for the floricultural sector: Valentine's Day, a celebration that requires an ambitious logistics and commercial operation to export about 600 million flowers, mainly to the United States.(Images: Juan Diego López)RESOURCE IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES BY ANDRES VALENCIA, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, AND SOLAN AUGUSTO, PRESIDENT OF ASOCOLFLORES.1. "We had a very positive agenda with the sector that ended with the signing of this 2030 agenda in the afternoon, we strongly support the sector especially in campaigns to promote Colombian flowers abroad"2. "First you have to innovate, you have to have attractive varieties, that's essential, that's why the 2030 agenda that we signed today largely indicates that a cluster of plant-base material can be developed in Colombia and here we begin to develop varieties that have intellectual property rights, that have an owner and cannot be grown by just anybody, you have to pay for that, so novelty is a fundamental aspect. On the other hand, you have to have new mechanisms to sell to young people, the new generations that are going to be tomorrow's consumers and they are different, internet sales have grown a lot and we have to promote the emotional impact of flowers"
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