GLOBAL CUT FLOWERS MARKET


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This article is devoted to specific market of cut-flowers. The key point of the work is spatial aspect of global market. The characteristics of market’s leaders in last 10 years are given in the article. Seasonal wholesale differentiation is indicated in terms of production factors and is calculated using special coefficient. Spatial information is used as a basis for thematic maps. It is identified that global market has regional structure. A unique typology of inter-regional cut-flowers markets was developed through the functional top-down division method.

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Anna Konstantinovna Tsvetkova

Lomonosov Moscow State University of Russia

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Email: tsvetoks@mail.ru

Student of the Department of Geography of International Economy, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University

119991, Moscow, Leninskiye Gory, 1

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