High-tech to make your greenhouse more sustainable

Added on 18 December 2020

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High-tech to make your greenhouse more sustainable

Research plays a central role at Grodan and is aimed at making products and production methods even more sustainable and efficient. It is also important to investigate how the greenhouse horticulture sector as a whole can contribute to more sustainable and efficient food production.

Earlier this year, Grodan and Wageningen University & Research partnered on a study that looked at the sustainability and efficiency of high-tech and low-tech horticulture, both organic and conventional. The scores of these four different cultivation methods were examined for various development goals. A crucial conclusion from the research is that conventional high-tech greenhouse horticulture is more sustainable than other cultivation methods.

"High-tech greenhouse horticulture is insufficiently positioned as the solution to the world's food problem," says Sander van Golberdinge, a research client at Grodan. "Because we work in a protected growing environment, it has everything it takes to become the standard method for many vegetables. But awareness is relatively low, and that is a missed opportunity."

Watch for complete research results in 2021.

Source: Greenhouse Grower