FILE PHOTO: A worker cuts flowers in a nursery, while flower growers have started destroying their products by failing to export them due to export restrictions after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Llano Grande, Costa Rica, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/ Juan Carlos Ulate
CARTAGO, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rican flower farmers have started destroying lilies, roses and chrysanthemums they have lovingly tended for months after the coronavirus outbreak led to the suspension of flights to markets in the United States and Canada.
"This was our work. We have grown and cared for them since they were seeds," said Cristian Quiros, a worker at the Flores y Verdes del Irazu farm in the central city of Cartago. "Now we have to throw them away, and it's such a difficult feeling."
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