Twenty business entities in Moldova cultivate ornamental plants on a total open field area of about 8 hectares in nine districts of the country.

In a response to an inquiry made by IPN News Agency, the National Food Safety Agency said the business entities grow different species of flowers, such as chrysanthemums, yellow lilies, tulips, gladioluses, hyacinths, narcissuses, hibiscuses, petunias and hydrangeas.

Open field flowers are cultivated in the districts of Ialoveni, Orhei, Sîngerei, Strășeni, Stefan Vodă, Criuleni, Drochia, Dubăsari and Glodeni.

According to the National Food Safety Agency, cut flowers or flowers in pots haven’t been exported from Moldova in commercial quantities during the past three years.

Under the law on the protection of plants and phytosanitary quarantine, all the companies that grow plants and manufacture vegetal products are obliged to register in the Phytosanitary Register based on an application submitted to the local subdivision of the National Food Safety Agency.