HONG KONG—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. “These beautiful flowers are completely healthy, and I would normally pick them and bring them to the market. Look how pretty they are,” Leung said, standing near a bed of shoulder-high red and pink blooms, soon to be thrown on the fire. “But this year there is no flower market at all. After they blossom, I will get rid of them all by burning them,” he said, adding that some could be used …
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