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In 2001, the Canadian
floriculture
industry was valued at $904 million CAD.
[1]
To give a more recent figure, Canadian floricultural farm cash receipts in 2013 totalled $1.09 billion CAD.
[2]
In 2011, there were 2,278 floricultural farms in Canada.
[3]
Of the provinces,
Ontario
has the greatest share in this industry?nearly 45% in 2004.
[4]
Correspondingly
Ontario
dominates in exports to the U.S.
[5]
9,500 people of mainly
Dutch
and Danish background were employed by Ontario's floriculture industry in 2004.
[4]
Southern Ontario
's strategic location within 12 hours by road of half of the U.S. urban population is cited as one of the major sources of its success in floriculture.
[4]
References
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Miller, M.M. (2001). "
Floriculture industry overview: production, sales and marketing in North America
".
Acta Hort.
(ISHS) 543:23-29
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Statistics Canada (2014). "
Farm cash receipts 2013
". Accessed November 22, 2014.
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Statistics Canada (2014).
Census of Agriculture
, farms classified by the North American industry classification. Accessed November 22, 2014.
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b
c
Reid, N., & Carroll, M. (2005). "Using Cluster-Based Economic Development to Enhance the Economic Competitiveness of Northwest Ohio's Greenhouse Nursery Industry". In
Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences
(Vol. 28, p. 309). [np]; 1998.
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Reid, N., Smith, B. W., Gatrell, J. D., & Carroll, M. C. (2009). "Importing Change: Canadian Competition and the US Floriculture Industry".
The Industrial Geographer
, 6(1), 3-19.