What happened in 2000 to the flower exporters and growers?
Nevado believes that 2000 should have been a good year for everybody, “A lot of us were affected by the depresion in the Russian market, but this forced us to look for new markets, taking into consideration that we have a firm advantage over competitors like the Colombians who don’t have the climate or altitude to be able to produce flowers like ours.” Devaluation had both positive and negative effects on the industry, but the most important thing is to know that Ecuador is facing up to it’s problems. ” Ecuador is facing similar problems to the ones we faced in Spain some forty years ago. I am sure however that these problems will be overcome in no more than three years, in the same way as they were in Spain. Dolarization will bring stability to the country. Before the dollar-sucre exchange was favorable, but I prefer today’s dollar to the instability that existed before 2000, with the devastating impact of devaluation. I think that today Ecuador is serving as an example to the world i
