To highlight the resiliency and innovative capabilities of Taiwan’s floriculture industry in the face of climate change and international competition, the “2026 Taiwan International Orchid Show and Floral Technology Exhibition” will be held from February 27 to March 16, 2026 at the Floral Industry Innovation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). The theme of this show is “Blooming Taiwan” and this will be the first time the Taiwan International Orchid Show (TIOS) and the Floral Technology Exhibition (FTE) are being held jointly. Through the joint exhibition platform, the MOA aims to link together industry, technology, and society and create a multi-layered exhibition experience that will comprehensively demonstrate the achievements of Taiwan’s floriculture industry as it enters a new era.

During a preliminary opening event for the joint TIOS and FTE exhibition, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hu Jong-I related that the annual production value of Taiwan’s floriculture industry is about NT$18 billion. Within this industry, orchids are the pride of Taiwan as well as the most competitive product produced by it. Overseas sales of Phalaenopsis (moth) orchids account for over 90% of the total value of Taiwan’s flower exports, holding a steady position as the nationwide leader for many years now, with the US and Japan being especially important markets. Also, this year’s TIOS marks an important milestone as the Floral Industry Innovation Center (FIIC) will be hosting the event for the first time since the FIIC’s founding in September of 2025. Meanwhile, the FTE, with its forward-looking curation, will comprehensively demonstrate Taiwan’s strong floriculture industrial chain from advanced breeding capabilities to technology applications.

There are many highlights to the 2026 TIOS and FTE. The five major display areas include: the “Blooming Resilience Pavilion,” which will bring together more than 10,000 orchids in bloom and carry visitors into the floral world of the future; the “Orchid Excellence Pavilion,” which will focus on over 1,000 competitive flowers from home and abroad and provide an international stage for Taiwan’s achievements in breeding; the “Global Connection Pavilion,” which will operate for four days and be an area exclusively for flower industry B2B discussions with matchmaking functions, serving as a platform for global flower supply transactions; the “Bloom Market,” arranged around a core of returning to the basic nature of flowers as decorative objects for daily life and extending flower appreciation into everyday life, and featuring over 100 businesses providing diverse choices of flowers and floral craftsmanship; and the “Landscape Display Area,” which will host domestic and foreign expert groups and students from a large number of schools who will demonstrate applications of flowers in different settings. In addition, there will also be a “Floral Industry Forum” during the joint exhibition, to which experts from Taiwan and overseas are being invited to engage in in-depth exchanges and discussions on issues including industry technologies, international trends, and sustainable breeding.

The MOA further explains that the 2026 FTE, one of the two joint exhibitions, will take technology-based art as its curatorial theme. It will integrate technologies including AI, sensor-based interaction, holographic projection, a gigantic 65-meter curved visual display (the largest in Taiwan), and innovative “naked-eye five senses” immersive experiential technology. It will surpass the limits of traditional passive displays, and visitors will be able, through interactive stories and multi-sensory contact, to experience the beautiful combination of real-world floral arts with AI digital technology.

The MOA states that the theme “Blooming Taiwan” represents the fact that the floriculture industry in Taiwan, despite having experienced natural disasters and international competition, continues to display resiliency and innovation. The three main sub-themes of the joint exhibition, “industrial renaissance,” “international linkages,” and “societal resonance,” will highlight the journey of Taiwan’s floriculture from its native land to the international community. The event will not only be a floral banquet, it will be an international stage on which to display the transformation and innovative capabilities of Taiwan’s floriculture industry The MOA sincerely invites ordinary people, industry figures, and individuals from related fields from both Taiwan and abroad to actively participate. At the joint exhibition they can personally experience the robustness that Taiwan’s floriculture continues to show regardless of adversity, and see the beauty of the flowers of Taiwan.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hu Jong-I delivered remarks at a preliminary opening event for the joint 2026 Taiwan International Orchid Show (TIOS) and Floral Technology Exhibition (FTE) and encouraged Taiwan’s floriculture industry to continue to make progress.

The ceremony to start the “happiness ferris wheel” marked the official launch of the 2026 joint TIOS and FTE.

At the preliminary opening event, representatives of the floriculture industry collectively invited everyone to attend the 2026 joint TIOS and FTE.

A group photo.