Monday 10 December 2007

Fight for a Christmas tree!


The shortage and price increases last time are certainly for the next four years!
The Christmas trees become about 10 percents more expensively this winter. Especially the more expensive “Nordmanspar”, which doesn’t lose his needles, become continuously scarcer.

The women of present want no ordinary spar more as a Christmas tree. It must be a silver blue Nordman, because that doesn’t lose his needles!

They have planted, however, massive of those Nordmans, but it lasts still five years before they are ready to sale.

The Ardennes are good for about five millions Christmas trees per year, of which 85 per cent remain there in Belgium. In former days existed that for 70 per cent from ordinary trees, and scarcely 20 per cent Nordmans. For this year Raymackers expect 65 per cent Nordmans, 15 per cent traditional trees and already 10 per cent Fraseri. The remaining types take together scarcely five per cent.

This year still turns out better than expected damage: a traditional Christmas tree of 2 meters with mound costs 7 euro and a Nordman 19.95 euro.

The shortage to Nordmans is not only a Belgian problem: rather what supplies northern countries, such as Denmark, traditionally a considerable part of Europe. But has been introduced there for ecological reasons cap restrictions, as a result of which there is there also a shortage. At the same time with those restrictions the question increases in Europe, because also the Eastern-European countries choose, such as Poland, for the Nordman trees.

Source

(Jonas)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So the people will have to buy the normal christmas trees, which lose his needles, for the nextfout years. It's not that it's a disaster i think