Ambassadors of over 20 different country visited three companies in the Greenport in the West of Holland : Koppert Biological Systems , De Ruiter Seeds Experience and Anthura . The tour was an initiative thought of by the province of South Holland and the participants were accompanied by the Commissioner of the King , Jaap Smith . The tour had as its end to show the best the state has to offer to an outside consultation .
The ambassadors and their representatives were first receive at Koppert Biological Systems in the Dutch town of Berkel and Rodenrijs by chief operating officer Paul Koppert . Peter Maes , Director of Corporate Marketing , spoke to them about how the company , together with growers and in collaboration with nature ( constitutional resource ) , works to make agricultural and horticultural ware healthy , safer , more generative and less vulnerable .
At the ‘ De Ruiter Experience Center ’ , the participants attended a presentation by Nico van Vliet , Borg Exelmans and John van der Knaap about the tycoon of Dutch veggie germ reproduction . In the testing glasshouse , they looked at the presentation about the varieties that De Ruiter and fellow seed houses cultivate under high - tech conditions . They also visited the ‘ securities industry ’ , where they could see and taste different tomato varieties .
After that , the chemical group went to Anthura in the Dutch Bleiswijk , winner of the Horticulture Entrepreneurs Award 2019 , where they take a look around the production greenhouse filled with Anthuriums . Anthura specialize in the breeding of innovative and sustainable Orchids and Anthuriums for both growers and consumer . Commissioner of the King , Jaap Smith : “ In Greenport West - Holland there are many horticultural companionship that are in the top of their respective fields on a worldwide scale , and it fills me with pride to be render the chance to show some of these companionship to the international chemical group gather here today . ”
CollaborationDuring the tour , the participants also received info about the workplace done in the Greenport West - Holland . Representative Bom - Lemstra , who is also a chairman of Greenport West - Holland , was present when the embassador get in . Program drawing card Jolanda Heistek talk about the importance of collaborationism between governments , in this pillow slip , the province of South Holland and entrepreneur . She spoke about how governments , entrepreneurs , educational institutes and enquiry organizations work together to produce a goodly , more vital and more sustainable hereafter for the regional horticultural cluster and both the home and outside collaborations . To accomplish this , the Greenport focuses on a couplet of themes , such as Internationalization , Sustainability and cognition & innovation .
Commissioner of the King , Jaap Smit : “ Through this figure out visit we want to show the innovative forte of the Greenport to an international audience . The Netherlands is not only on the second office worldwide when it comes to the exportation of blossom and agro - food for thought products , but our horticultural industry is also a globe leader in our own production , ware innovation and evolution of unexampled engineering science . The Greenport is a sphere in which the economies of many countries are associate . ”
Source : Greenport West - Holland
