The production of tulips has been growing for year and , apart from the recent corona headache , there are no renowned sign of the zodiac that this development will be slowing down . Although they are minify in turn , the expectant companies are getting big and they invest heavily . Furthermore , that largely happens behind the view . While some of these companies render more than 1 million flowers a day during the season , you never actually hear from them . And while various eatable grower show off with tests for multi - layer culture , many large tulip growers have been doing this for many years .
Construction cultivate at D.J. Visser Bloemen B.V.
" It has been at least twenty years since we installed a refinement on tables in several layers at a tulip agriculturist for the first prison term , " enjoin Bernardo Greeve , who together with buddy Ferry owns KG Greenhouses and KG Systems . “ Since then we have really continued to make . At the moment even three at the same prison term ; in North Holland withD.J. Visser Bloemen B.V.(11,000 m2),J.C.J. Ruiter - Wever(6,000 m2 ) , and at Marknesse in the Flevopolder atVan Bentem Sierteelt(9,000 m2 ) . I think that so far we have see larger and littler task for more than 100 tulip growers . ”Likewise , the new glasshouse under construction at Visser . As can be seen , the new building butt the old caller , with which it will be link up via an opening in the facade .
Yet you hear relatively little about it . Tulip forcing is not agriculture , nor is it horticulture , and yet it is a bit of both ; maybe that makes it a chip elusive ? Or is it producing electric light on the one hand and the development of the flowers on the other , which quickly is confusing for the foreigner to get it on who really is doing what ? peculiar , really , when you conceive that the Dutch tulip sound all over the world and , probably together with cheese and everything that is orange , is one of the most successful Dutch brands . At J.C.J. Ruiter - Wever also work is ongoing at the existing nursery . ( Major ) upkeep must anyway take place in the summer months , in which of course there is a spread in the production of tulip hale .
Or , and of grade that is also possible , they are just unassuming . “ I think that is primarily what it is , ” continues Bernardo . “ If you tell apart a greenhouse vegetable agriculturist that you are building 6 , 7 , 8 thousand metre at a tulip agriculturalist in North Holland or the Flevopolder , then it is a ' little greenhouse ' . But then you are wrong . The greenhouse is the box around the installation and engineering inside it , which is more expensive than that nursery itself . The entire organization work full automatic in several stratum without anyone get in the glasshouse , while all the engineering science around it in terms of light , air and wet is controlled . That makes these projection , although smaller in size of it , Das Kapital intensive and command a lot of medical specialist workplace . Not meant to be disparaging about a love apple greenhouse , but this really is just something unlike . ”
For case , 8 meters is higher than you think .
Capital intensive , you could definitely say that . This is part due to the ever increase size of it . There are about thirty company with some tens of millions in stalk product . A handful of companies even outmatch 100 million . Due to natural staff turnover and not being able-bodied or willing to go for increase in scale , lowly company will lose out . Furthermore , this development is reinforced by the practice of buy flower . A grower often deal more stems than he has . He buys what he miss , and in this way he can spread some risk . If his sale extend to grow and he has the means and chance , this is often the sentence to consider expanding his business .
At Van Bentem Sierteelt it is soft to see how the new building will soon be link up to the old greenhouse .
In addition , major investments are ask to have things run . Besides the technology in the greenhouse - the container system of rules , the air handling units , LED , screens , etc . - one can also cerebrate of class and processing machines ( which be in the hundreds of M per building block ) ; robots to heap and wash crates ; and the price tag on the lightbulb itself , which is either buy or own production . In the latter vitrine , one must also school , fertilize and irrigate ten if not hundreds of hectares of land , and one must also have tremendous drying rooms and gigantic dusty storage . “ Well - serve sales agreement are therefore crucial . If a large client or , say , a corona crisis , suddenly set off an order , it will straight forth cost a great deal of money . ”
Likewise structure work at Van Bentum , viewed from the former greenhouse .
From 4 to 6 to 8 metersKG has made an important contribution to modernizing and further scaling up of tulip production with its cultivation tabular array systems . “ This organisation already exists , but ( proficient ) inside information are , of course , being further develop . The glasshouse are get ever tall . In this way , of course more layers can be accommodated , but this is also important for a good climate in the glasshouse . With tulip , the relative humidity is particularly significant . There has to be a lot of air displacement reaction , and that ’s why sufficient space between the dissimilar layers is needed . you could also see that the tables have become increasingly larger , which in number means few movements and more efficient manipulation . ”
ultimately , a look behind the scenes at the novel location atZwettulips , a project also realise by KG , which was nail last class . Now , in June , much no tulips are forced any longer , but Zwettulips ( with pocket-size numbers ) is one of the few exception .
PrideFinally , there is something else that makes these projects special , at least for Greeve . “ Officially what we do is visit B2B , one commercial enterprise establish for another . But really that B complex is also just a C. Work and secret life sentence often overlap for grower ; they live next doorway , it is really their caller and not a factory somewhere in the back . That ’s why detail are significant ; everything has to be completed , everything has to be right . The enterpriser , also almost without exception , are very closely involved in the progress . That makes working very thankful and also creates a adhesion , which makes it very likely that we will match again in the hereafter . "
For more information : KG GreenhousesLeeuwenhoekweg 582661 DD BergschenhoekThe NetherlandsE:[email protected]www.kggreenhouses.com
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