Jakarta - Govt due to introduce trade system

The government plans within weeks to introduce a new trade system for horticultural products, which will include an import arrangement, in a move to increase protective measures within the domestic market, an official says.

Deputy Trade Minister Bayu Krishnamurti said on Friday the new system would ensure the quality and security of imported products for local consumers as well as guarantee the sustainability of local agricultural businesses.

A trade system to protect local products is commonly applied to a country’s essential food commodities, which in Indonesia’s case are rice, salt and sugar.

“We are trying to safeguard the local market from risky products and, for that reason, we will conduct a risk assessment regarding such products with this new system,” Bayu said on Friday.

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Pakistan and Russia to establish Horticulture Business Forum

Pakistan and Russia will establish Pak-Russia Horticulture Business Forum to cooperate horticulture trade and technical assistance between two countries which will provide stalls in exhibition free of cost, agriculture technology, warehouses, cold storages, exchange of delegation and establishment of offices in major cities of Russia.

After the arriving from representing the high level delegation to Russia, Abdul Wahid Patron in Chief of Pakistan Fruit and vegetables Exporters and Importers and merchant Association has said that the Russia is ready to help in stabilising Pakistan economy, he stated that during the visit they met with the ministry of commerce, ministry of finance, Russian chamber of commerce, high officials of different provinces and business associations.

Big ambitions for the growing business

The horticulture industry aims to more than double in size to become a $10 billion business by 2020, and plans to use New Zealand's clean, green image to help it get there. Horticulture New Zealand says the industry is at a crossroads and has released a strategy for moving the sector away from growth driven by volume towards value-added products. Read more>

NorthJersey.com: Landscaping firm he started as a kid has bloomed

When Dan Kindergan started his landscaping business, he was too young to get a driver's license. So he hired a high school friend to drive his lawn-cutting equipment around town. He incorporated his Bergenfield-based business, Kindergan Landscaping LLC, on his 18th birthday 20 years ago. Since then, he's built a business with 31 employees during the peak seasons and annual sales of more than $4 million.Read more:
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Flower power: scent of success for industry in bloom

Flowers from a rosarium in Russia's Penza region which are proving a huge hit in markets across the country could now be set to conquer Europe. It is all thanks to a Dutchman who has brought the know-how and technology from his homeland and adapted it to Russia's unforgiving climate.

Kearney Hub - Childhood interest in plants has bloomed into African violet basement business, horticulture studies, hopes for expansion

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LOOMIS — Much like the African violets she grows, Jenny Freed spent the past 10 years adding new leaves to her plant-growing experience and has grown a blooming business.

Freed, who bought her first African violet when she was in third grade, runs her business, Violets and More, from the basement of her parents’ home north of Loomis. The 19-year-old has been cultivating African violets to sell at craft shows and to florists and greenhouses since she bought the business from Sharolyn Moss of Grand Island in March 2005.

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Hawaii seed crop businesses worth $146M - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

Hawaii companies that grow plants for seed generate $13.8 million a year in state tax revenue, according to a new economic impact study released Friday. The study, commissioned by the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, found the local seed crop industry is made up of 45 companies that run farms or other facilities on Oahu, Kauai, Molokai and Maui. Read more:
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Seeds of success - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

PEORIA — .Behm & Hagemann Inc. truly is a growing business. The company has been selling its trademark "Lifetyme" grass seed in plain, cotton bags for over 60 years. "We're in the right business for these economic times. Sales are up," said owner Diane Joynt, who purchased the company at 3021 W. Farmington Road three years ago. Despite a business downturn, grass seed sales in 2009 are up 17 percent over last year, she said
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