Floral industry

A public service announcement encouraging face masks is flanked by marigolds and terciopelo flowers at Mercado de Jamaica.

In Mexico, shuttered cemeteries mean financial ruin for thousands of flower farmers

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Day of the Dead is usually one of the most profitable times of the year. Families buy dozens of flowers to build altars at the graves of their deceased loved ones. But in October, news broke that many cemeteries in Mexico would be closed to the public due to rising COVID-19 cases.

A worker picks roses that will be thrown way because they cannot be shipped to Europe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Maridadi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, March 19, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic wilts global flower industry

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