It ’s been more than two years since the Dutch horticultural industry got to meet up at their one-year national upshot , the HortiContact show . This year though , the show has last come up back , yet there are raw challenges that have stultify a warm reunion . High energy prices , gamy raw stuff prices , and lack of labor available are crowd the greenhouse diligence to its point of accumulation - and are urge growers to look around for new solutions .
HortiContactThe HortiContact show was previously known as the Tuinbouw Relatiedagen ( Horticulture Networking Days ) and has been an institution for the Dutch industry for many years : this has historically been the place to catch up with customer , suppliers , and even contender . Thanks to a successful decennary in the greenhouse diligence , the show grew along and welcomed over 400 visitors two year ago . This year the consequence registered more or less 250 exhibitioner .
On the first day of the three - day event , these shower mainly caught up with each other as there were many justifications for actual growers not to claver the show , with the timing being one of the most important . Vegetable growers have reap record yields because of the in high spirits temperatures and sunny weather , bedding works growers have been take care of their crop and preparing for more spring holiday , and foreshorten heyday raiser … well , what ’s the fun in confab a barter fair when you ’re not indisputable if you may keep your business organisation due to high energy price ? However , yesterday , on the second day of the show , the aura was much better as still more growers than expected found their elbow room to the event : growers looking to swap their HPS light for light-emitting diode , for example , or sample to mitigate their energy cost with dehumidification solutions . As one flower grower say : " We always believe we could n’t improve our cultivation further , yet year after year , we proved ourselves wrong . "
So how about novelties ? Many suppliers lay aside up their launch for the Greentech show , which will take property in June , addressing a more international audience as well . Yet , of course of instruction , there are always nerveless things to be found at the HortiContact . Here ’s a sneak peek , and please find many more pic in our full report on Monday .
The team with HPNow : Jan - Jacob Mekes & Tiret Dwanarain , talks about their sustainable water discourse , which was recently OMRI - listed and thus allowed to be used in constitutional cultivation .
Autonomous growing is what Jarl Blok and Marc Rooijackers with Pylot can tell you more about .
AGC by Agculture launched their new Methedrine Geysir on the show . Read more about it here .
The squad with Paskal showed their innovations from the past , their current offering to raiser , and also a preview of the solution they ’re train to keep aid growers in the future . On GreenTech , they will be present again to reveal more about it !
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