‘Each day of unemployment the ability to pay 3,000 workers’ of the flower growers is lost. This is the balance of losses in commerce and industries

As the days of paralysis progress, the losses of different productive sectors of the country also rise. Between all of them, more than $100 million are accounted for. Flower growers are one of the most affected because the farms are located in provinces where indigenous protesters are stopping production.

The Association of Producers and Exporters of Flowers of Ecuador (Expoflores) has been publicly denouncing the threats of the protesters, the detention of cargo, of trucks. The Naranjo Roses company assures that for each day that flowers are not exported, the sector loses the capacity to pay 3,000 collaborators, that at the national level the economic losses caused by unemployment are equivalent to 500,000 salaries and that for every $10 that is sold in flowers, $6 goes to farm families. There are 200,000 people from the countryside who live from floriculture.

In other companies, sectors and provinces the effects are felt and the Ecuadorian Business Committee, the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor), the Chamber of Commerce of Quito, the Chamber of Industries and Production and the Chamber of Industries of Guayaquil give their balance on these losses.

• $108 million in losses in the productive sector in eight days of the stoppages.
• $2.7 million a day in the floriculture.
• Between $2 million and $5 million a day in the tourism sector. 79% of reservations have been cancelled.
• $27 million of losses in the non-oil export sector through June 21, 2022.
• The most affected products are flowers, broccoli, fruits and vegetables.
• At risk more than 150,000 jobs.
• More than 700 exporting companies.
• Quito represents more than 40% of national sales and its loss would be similar in relation to the national level.
• Father’s Day sales represent 50% of the total sold in June and a similar value in the service sector.
• $2 million a day is lost in the animal protein industry.
• Problems are expected due to the lack of food for cattle, chickens and pigs, causing possible shortages for up to 8 weeks.
• In dairy industry $1 million of milk is not purchased per day.
• All collection centers are at maximum capacity.
• Agricultural products for export: legumes. Around $500,000 in daily losses (logistical problems and cargo clearance).
• In sales of the commercial sector, $9 million are lost daily.
• In the plastics industry, $100,000 have been lost in eight days of stoppages.
• On paper $240,000.
• In gas $100,000.
• Pharmacist $16 million.
• $14.8 million in losses reported by the National Corporation of Poultry Farmers of Ecuador in a week of stoppage.
• Three million chickens have not reached slaughterhouses and markets nationwide.
• 45 million table eggs have also not reached the distribution centers.
• 14,000 tons of corn have not been distributed to balanced feed factories. (YO)