Flower growers said that they were facing difficulties in exporting flowers grown in Shan State (South) to the Yangon market, where market demand is high, as transportation costs have doubled. Previously, the transportation cost for a box of flowers containing about 800 flowers was only about Ks.7,000, but now it has increased to more than Ks.10,000 per box.
Although the flower prices are currently high in the Yangon market, only traders are making a profit, and flower growers are not making much profit, a flower grower from Nyaung Shwe, Shan State (South) said.

The flowers were sold on a credit basis, not on a cash basis. Currently, the input costs used for flower gardens were rising, and the prices of flower cardboard boxes were also rising sharply. The Kalaw Zone, Shan State (South), delivered about 2,000 boxes that include 500 flowers per box of chrysanthemums and other flowers country-wide every day, according to the Flower Growers, Producers and Exporters Association (Kalaw Zone).
If the Kalaw Zone, led by the Flower Growers, Producers and Exporters Association, rents shops in Yangon’s wholesale marketplaces and sells them on their own, they will be able to make a profit, said an official from the Heho Agricultural Institute. There are 11 villages in Kalaw Zone that grow chrysanthemum and 35 other flowers throughout the year.