In the beginning , horticultural supplier replied in a quite down - to - ground mode to the corona problems , but now horticultural problems go to slow down , and continuing to work gets hard . The real punishing month are yet to come , though , fear Annie van de Riet with AVAG and Eric Egberts with Dutch Greenhouse Delta . " A lot will depend on the agriculturalist ' willingness to invest . "
For that reason , it ’s in the interestof horticultural suppliers that growers worldwide get fiscal support to make it through the corona crisis . " Our appendage are involved in ninety percent of the nursery building projection around the world " , estimates Annie van de Riet , Chief Executive of AVAG , the industriousness organisation for Dutch greenhouse detergent builder and horticulture technique companies , with which over 70 company are associated .
The wallet is closedBegin last week , the mood with the members of AVAG was moderately down - to - earth and projects go on , Annie now gets more signals that problems are rising up . " The supply of the material get more hard , as is getting people to site . Getting simple base of operations material from for case Italy , gets harder , so delays are starting to come .
Yet , the delay of project is not the braggy problem , stagnation in sales is , make out Annie . " Our members calculate on the willingness to invest from growers around the earth . Unfortunately , you see new investments getting hold over , building plans do n’t go through , already made orders get draw back , so the wallets are shut . "
AftermathThe longer the growers get blow , the longer the aftermath is going to be , she expects . " As soon as the market in ornamental , fruit and veg gets going again and the restrictions are lifted , everything will seem to be ' normal ' again . But correctly at that prison term , it will be a big question , what the crisis has done to the willingness to invest . The substantial blow for our members will be later , I carry , and it will last longer than in other sectors . "
young ordering from ChinaThis is also the image that Eric Egberts , CEO of Dutch Greenhouse Delta ( DGD ) , see . His focal point , with the involved company in DGD , is mainly overseas , more than Annie ’s . " In China , it seems the spoiled of the crisis is over . The area is already back at ninety pct of the productivity from before , or so I hear .
Even during the corona crisis , the agricultural and horticultural sector , including glasshouse edifice , did not go wholly down . You do see a difference between decorative growing and the ontogenesis of invigorated yield and vegetables . In that last market segment our partners already see new orders coming in , and people are also looking at small and larger novel investments again . "
invest in local growingThe corona crisis , however abominable the situation is now , is n’t inevitably that bad , expects Eric . " land now look facts about their exposure take food supply , because they are n’t ego sufficient . There ’s a rise of awareness with large investors and politics that it is significant to originate topically . That cognisance was present before St. Elmo’s fire , but it will get a cost increase now , I anticipate . "
The biggest challenge for DGD is mainly trance up with the time lag . " We often go overseas to keep a connection with regime and supplication for gardening with Dutch engineering science . A good deal of trips , among which to the Middle - East , were already being prepared , and as presently as we can we will go that way again .
What we are mostly doing right now is preparing ourselves and our partners so we are quick to go as soon as we can . The challenge is to operate more effective and effective in a market that will have a dandy demand . "
Catching up with delayWhen the moment of going again will be , is guessing for now . Eric expects that that will be at least after the summer , now that in the Netherlands the 1st of June is set for the measure , and in India and the United States , where DGD is also active , the fist corona ' wave ' is only come in now , or not yet , even .
Doing upkeep continues for the AVAG members in the interim . " That is crucial for the vital sector which is gardening in the field of food provision " , knows Annie , who in the meantime sit at multiple pressure group table , to raise the issue of the staggering investments .
" It ’s too former to name hurt amounts . We ca n’t measure the damage , but it ’s clear that miss win ca n’t just be made up for . It ’s of import to keep moral high together , and to take care that the growers make it through internationally . That ’s the best for our members . "
9/11AVAG gets , among others , question about cross - border traffic , it ’s factual status and limitations in it , but also about reduction of exercise time of day about which some of our members already recollect . " Our appendage make title to that if potential " , reassures Annie . " But get ’s all hope that this office is any like 9/11 . The worldly concern was in stupor then , too , but after that everything got back to normal . "
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