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Lunar New Year flowers in flames as Hong Kong farmer burns unsold stock

Hong Kong Lunar New Year China Lam Yik
Flowers burn at farmer Leung Yat-shen's farm, following the government's announcement to close Lunar New Year flower fairs to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Hong Kong, China, January 27, 2022. Picture taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Lam Yik

Flower farmer Leung Yat-shen has burned thousands of flowers he cannot sell this year as Hong Kong's stringent measures against the Omicron variant of coronavirus have halved his Lunar New Year demand.

Leung, 70, runs a traditional farm in Hong Kong's rural Yuen Long district growing sword lilies, water lilies and tulips. He had planted 200,000 flowers for Lunar New Year but was unable to offload about half of them due to the crash in demand.

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