Jos Reeuwijk , former grower and now advisor onLinkedIn : " Real growers with year of drill experience that can make the difference of opinion and can train people will be hard to find in the near future . " It is his response to theTV - segment with tomato grower Leo van der Lanslast Sunday . The segment stirred something up , and so does Jos ' web log , looking at the reactions .
In his blog , Jos elevate the interrogative whether the professing ' agriculturist ' will still exist in the penny-pinching future . Because of scurf enlargement , the modest cultivation company have disappeared , and with them the old school growers . Greenhouse horticulture has grow into a ' aggregate production diligence ' .
A development which is not only happen in the glasshouse gardening . " It is happening in a destiny of sectors where the knowledge of older employees is no longer treasure , while in nursery horticulture you could bring on more kilos of a crop with preciseness craw mastery , and recoup the investment in a earnings of such a mentor or older employee with experience , call him a coach , in no clip . "
StandardizationNew growers are being trained for the ' industriousness ' in which the nursery horticulture is tardily turning into , although the numeral of registration for horticultural education is lower than the demand . And graduate combining cultivation noesis with IT - knowledge are almost impossible to retrieve . There is IT - noesis , for model , look atthe Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge , growers can no longer do without .
" In that challenge , no one can get in the greenhouse , and that is where things go wrong when compared to original growers with green fingers . " A grower should walk amidst the crop , to read the plants and finger the mood . well in shorts , because you have to experience how the climate feels for a certain crop . " Jos would like to hire the teams in the challenge . " I believe I can accomplish a higher production . "
ship’s company robotJos has his doubts about the refinement cognition of the new generation grower . " They have a lot of theoretical knowledge , can they ' read ' a flora as the original grower can , who have learned the swop from father to son ? How many real cultivator can still expect at a plant and see what is awry , which nutrients are lacking , and how you may achieve top production by paying attention to details ?
The ' real grower ' can still be observe and they want to work , but they can not keep up with the tempo of foreign craw employee and are therefore not interesting for production companies , Jos observes . " Now , production companies are not wait for top production , but for standardization , because with a received cultivation plan , everybody can grow . "
And that hurt a little . " Yes , wherever you see the human factor melt , it bruise . reckon at the care industry where aid workers are replaced by a company robot … "
Knowledge exportJos does see the importance of mechanisation . " Labor is run low to be a problem in the Netherlands for the persistence of companies . I am holding my breathing space . What if employee are no longer coming from Poland ? Where will they derive from ? "
Automation can not replace that ' standard ' labor and Jos recognizes that that is indispensable for the Department of Agriculture sphere in general , and the nursery horticulture in particular . " But to then make the difference , you have to attain gamey product and effective quality , and for that , human noesis is indispensable . If you allow that go ( and Jos sees a fate of cultivation knowledge being export overseas ) , other countries will catch up with you . "
For more information : Jos ReeuwijkLinkedIn
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