Grodan ’s biyearly plant raiser ’ mean solar day took place last workweek . Every time they manage to organise a special activity at this event . This metre it was all about H.P. . mass of horsepower . Racing took place with Land Rovers , quads and bugxter buggy . But before that happened , the group was taken to the digital human race where Artificial Intelligence will spiel an more and more important role .

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“ The current era is still about the descriptive form . Ultimately , it takes us to the prescribing phase , ” enjoin Rick Bakker of Berenschot Consultancy in his presentation . Rick inform the chemical group of growers about the cosmos of the Smart Horticulture web . In this internet , a radical of companionship in greenhouse gardening play together to facilitate the changeover of Dutch horticulture to a information - drive knowledge chain . Innovation welfare from quislingism . Knowledge is divvy up , with the intention of further integrating digitization in the nursery . This meshing incidentally is an initiative of Berenschot Consultancy .

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e - GroPaulina Florax of Grodan took over from Rick . She works with e - Gro every 24-hour interval . Furthermore , she is not doing that alone . The team has been expanded to around 15 people within a twelvemonth . e - Gro combines relevant datum from dissimilar origin on one on-line software political program . The result : 24/7 a elaborated picture of the office in the greenhouse , so that there is more dominance and the cultivation can be controlled in a data - driven style . The advice is given by eastward - Gro and is based on beginning zone , climate , crop and harvest data . By the mode , e - Gro is compatible with smartphones , background and tablets . Paulina Florax

Paulina : " Data - driven decision - making is well - founded decisiveness - making . In other words : measuring is acknowledge . We are ferment with Es - Gro together with about one hundred affiliated growers . These agriculturist are already working with eastward - Gro and realize the importance of it . e - Gro analyzes the information and advises the growers on the basis of that analysis . ” The climate information is supplied by Grosens , external sensors and external datum source . e - Gro begin to form with all that data .

information is therefore the basic material for east - Gro . And that work us to the workfield of Paul Bouwens from Grodan . He is the one who shares all the information of Grosens . This system measures WG , EC and the temperature in the occlusion and/or the gym mat . It offers the ‘ green valet ’ a means , via the sensors , to make more certainty in their cultivation . The measuring can be read remotely , so that checking and adjusting can be done always and everywhere . Paul ’s story was in - depth . It result in a Q&A academic session . Kurt Lauwers ( HollandPlant ) , Pieter van Dijk ( Plantise ) , Alex van Os and Mehmet Sevim ( HollandPlant )

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Time to relaxTime to relax meant time for the horsepower with a barbecue to reason . The images from the photo news report give an impression of this good afternoon . Grodan ’s plant growers ’ day is seen by the growers as one of the most important networking gatherings within the multiplication sector . Marcel Janssen ( Gipmans ) and Paul Jochems ( Brabant Plant )

For more selective information : GrodanMario Helderman[email   protected]Tel +31 ( 0)475 ) 35 30 20www.grodan.nl

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