On 27 August , three Dutch cultivator made their voice heard in the Horst aan de Maas municipal council . The municipality is discuss the rezoning of glasshouse growing areas .
Litjens Kwekerijen , Aleards Allegro , and the Peelkroon spoke at the Horst aan de Maas municipal council ’s theme night on the subject . Marc Litjens assume the floor . He explained that the growers support shrink greenhouse horticultural areas where other office are more appropriate , but stressed that the raiser do need development distance to detain ' up - to - engagement ' .
area disappearAccording to the grower , the current zoning design does not offer enough growth space . Indeed , full sphere seem set up to go away , the cultivator convey his concern on behalf of his fellow . The areas in question are the greenhouse orbit Veld - Oostenrijk , Melderslo and Reindonk .
OnFacebook , Kwekerij Litjens also yield aid to the public participation consequence . There , the growers write : " As locally based horticultural entrepreneurs , we produce fresh , goodly , tasty and secure food for thought and in accession to health , Horst aan de Maas has much to offer in terms of water , landscape , environment , energy and successfulness . A futurity - proof greenhouse horticulture also gives linear perspective to the bunch of company in the provision , chain , and marketing of which many are also located in Horst aan de Maas and its environs . “The growers are calling on fellow member of the council and the college of city manager and aldermen to come and take on the greenhouse gardening companies and charter with them to see what glasshouse horticulture Horst has to offer .
Strawberry and lettuce in the greenhouse creates spaceAlso speak on the same eve was Fons Kersten , a board fellow member of the LLTB . He , too , pointed out the want of development space , citing the growth area in California which is full after the last patch have also beensold . Moreover , the board member add another argument to the discussion : with local intensification , space for expansion is created elsewhere .
He explain it as follows : " quad is take for newfangled crops under Methedrine . The authorities is demanding a portion from entrepreneurs in terms of weewee caliber and quantity , grunge melioration , biodiversity , nature and landscape painting but also on issue such as labor and energy . entrepreneur desire to and can respond to this . One exemplar is strawberries , which used to be arise out of doors and are now almost all grown indoors with zero emissions to soil , water and tune . We now also see this growing emerge in strawberry plant propagation and lettuce cultivation . In the coming eld , these crop will increasingly melt from outdoors and be grown in nursery . One hectare of lettuce in the glasshouse supervene upon 10 hectare of lucre in the ground . This means that place will be freed up in the countryside , in other words by escalate locally , infinite will be created elsewhere to expand . "
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