But this year's prognosis is unclear after 18 days of sometimes-violent mass protests against rising fuel prices that included burning roadblocks and arson, and resulted in six deaths.
The protests, led by a powerful Indigenous people's group, saw cut flowers among the export products targeted by arsonists. "There were innumerable losses in terms of flowers that could not be exported damage to private property," said Socorro Martinez, Ecuador's Dummen Orange boss. In 2020, Ecuador's flower industry recorded sales of $827-million -- a smaller decline than had been expected from pre-pandemic 2019 when it was $880-million.
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