China has seen a growth in high - tech nursery in the last few year . The demand for innovative applied science is becoming widespread . Taiwanese companies are expect for automate solutions , whether in terminus of plantation or management , and they often turn their attention to the Netherlands . The Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China answer to this trend with an online symposium on horticultural facility . The symposium took home on August 13 . The symposium bring out Taiwanese followers to different engineering and direction concepts in the Dutch horticultural industry . Denise Spiekerman , representative for Taiwanese activities at the Wageningen University Alumni Office , open up the online symposium : " The outbreak of Covid-19 has slack down cooperation between Chinese and Dutch horticultural companies . Many exchange visits have been cancel and planned task have been delay . We hope to render a political platform for go on cooperation during this pandemic . We hope that participant from the horticultural industry will be able-bodied to strengthen connections , approach cooperation , and advance development in the Chinese horticultural industry , even under these difficult luck . "
Honored guests at the symposium admit Dr. Yang Qizhang , Director of the Institute of Urban Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Dr. Huang Ruiqing , chairman of the board at Ruixue Global , Dr. Xu Dan , CEO at HortiPolaris , and Dr. Qiu Yutong , a specialist in sustainable insect pest management at the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University . These honored Edgar Albert Guest share their years of experience in the horticultural industry and their view on the Taiwanese horticultural industry with the symposium player . All four Speaker are alumni of Wagening University , and enthusiastically encourage the substitution of horticultural technology between the Netherlands and China .
Dr. Yang Qizhang , Director of the Institute of Urban Agriculture , was the first to give a words . Director Yang stated that horticultural installations are carry out on a mature scale , but the vast majority of horticultural companies in China still use little - scale facility with a crushed level of mechanization , which results in low yields and low efficiency . The Chinese government has therefore digest investment in the horticultural diligence in the last few age . Key trend in succeeding developments let in industrial scaling , mechanization , betterment in production volume and mathematical product lineament , and training of extremely - dependant personnel department . In increase , the development of botanical factories is incredibly swift in China . The scale of measurement continue to expand . Chinese consumers have a growing requirement for clear , fresh vegetable . In response to this trend , botanic factories expand the scale of vegetable product , and they move a number of botanic installations into urban environments such as communal plots and private home . Furthermore , the Formosan horticultural manufacture is quickly develop . There is an increasing need for extremely - qualified personnel . There are many difficulties with horticultural skill and with the practical app of solutions during the yield process . Horticultural company have to invest in cooperation with educational institutions to direct the next generation of horticultural specialists .
Dr. Yang Qizhang , Director of the Institute of Urban Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science
Dr. Huang Ruiqing , chairman of the circuit board at Ruixue Global
The third speaker was Dr. Xu Dan , CEO at HortiPolaris . The plantation of HortiPolaris lie of a series of interconnect greenhouse encompass an area of 3.3 hectare . The Chengjian Group induct 150 million yuan [ 21 million USD ] to make the building of this grove possible . The HortiPolaris grove already get through a firm production volume of 500 tons of cherry red tomatoes and 100 lots of folio vegetable . This production capacity wear the premature record of highest product bulk per square time ( cherry tomatoes 31kg / m2 , leaf vegetable 60 - 80kg / m2 ) . HortiPolaris also alleviate the location operation for technology teams , declamatory ordered series covering of orchard , product normalisation , sustainable supplies , and a tier of food for thought safety that is on par with European measure . After a trial period in which the HortiPolaris team read and follow up Dutch greenhouse engineering , the company has made with child advancement in raising the efficiency of natural resources , human resources , and output material . The HortiPolaris team also managed to mix various natural resources and cut down the sentence it takes to provide sure products . The company can reap products in the grove and deliver them to the market in under 24 hours . While HortiPolaris continues to better greenhouse yield , the company also aid farmers through agricultural cooperative and helps them to improve plantation and direction acquisition . With the assistance of HortiPolaris , farmers learn to efficiently clear farming job . This in turning improves their income and helps Farmer lift from poverty . The outreach program is but one example of the ways in which HortiPolaris train societal responsibility . The company realized many achievements , but Dr. Xu Dan also spoke open - heartedly about the many challenge he has faced . The companionship team was able to handle some of the challenge themselves , such as the reduction of energy waste , difficulties in the operation of greenhouse engineering , and the organisation of power structure among specialist . However , there are also some challenge that have to be look by the entire industry as a whole . HortiPolaris can not lick everything alone , for example , the quality of seeds count on importers , the technology used to keep product fresh is often outdated , there is a shortage of personnel , coin bank do not supply mortgage for glasshouse , which complicates finances , and there is a world-wide deficiency of Big Data and Internet of Things - technology in the horticultural manufacture . In the terminal , the supply chain and divine service sustenance for high - ending glasshouse yield is far from perfect . The industrial environment is not decent structured and systematise . Many investor and producers run into job that they simply can not solve by themselves . Dr. Xu Dan therefore propose to establish an industry alliance standardized to " prominent " in the Netherlands and " Zespri " in New Zealand . Some of the problems can only be solved through cooperation between companies in the horticultural industry . An industry alliance can facilitate speciality in the supply mountain range and help regulate the market .
Dr. Xu Dan , CEO at HortiPolaris
The concluding speaker was Dr. Qiu Yutong , a specialiser in sustainable insect pest management at the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University . Dr. Qiu has many age of experience at Wageningen University studying comprehensive pest control in the horticultural diligence . More recently she has been involved in coordination and development for cooperation between Chinese and Dutch companies in the horticultural industry and related fields . During the symposium Dr. Qiu discussed the mechanisms of technological innovation in the Dutch horticultural manufacture as well as the characteristics and reward of industrial transformation through engineering science . Dr. Qiu provide a summary of several conjunctive projects between Wageningen University and Taiwanese horticultural company in need of innovative technology . One of the most of import projection was concerned with the enquiry and translation of sustainable pest management technology in the glasshouse industry . Dr. Qiu analyse the reasons why current measures in Formosan greenhouses are insufficient for sustainable controller of worm pests and plant life disease . Some of the reasons are as follows : product quality deteriorate during transport ; there is a lack of natural vulture in a greenhouse surroundings ; pest control method and concepts are stuck at the level of pesticides , which is not only ineffective , but expensive as well ; there is a deficiency of discernment about the ways in which blighter control methods and pesticides can be organically integrated . Dr. Qiu also introduced some case cogitation where the Chinese government worked together with private companies to make nursery instalment more pliable and meliorate the impact of sunlight in greenhouses . Dr. Qiu also expressed hope that Wageningen University will continue to direct technical force for the farming industry and focus on cooperation between Wageningen University and Chinese company to solve pressing issuing in the Chinese horticultural industry .
Dr. Qiu Yutong , a specialist in sustainable insect pest management at the Plant Sciences Group at Wageningen University
The presentations were follow by a Q&A one shot . Some of the treatment topic include hard-nosed problems in the greenhouse industry , focusing for ontogeny in the training of horticultural staff office , quarantine measuring stick for biologic products , and ways to make a cooperative in the Chinese glasshouse industry . After the symposium ended , Dr. Huang Ruiqing said the following : " It can not be denied that the Chinese horticultural industry has gravid potential and there is a arise numeral of interconnected greenhouse orchard that produce top - quality yield , vegetables , and flowers . However , there is still a crack of about 20 - 30 years between the Dutch horticultural industry and the Taiwanese horticultural industry . Many Formosan companies already spell Dutch methods , but these can not reproduce an integral organisation in the short duad of only a few years . Coming up with a development method acting for the Taiwanese horticultural diligence and implementing this method acting takes a longer period . I suspect that the next 20 - 30 years will be a golden flow for developments in the Chinese horticultural diligence . And in this period there will be increasingly acute cooperation between China and the Netherlands . I desire the Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China will take advantage of this golden chance to bravely look the challenge we have hash out during this symposium and provide solvent both from a scientific research perspective and with tending to the practical implementation . Together we can establish a tidy system for the greenhouse industriousness in China . Together we can take our duty in gild today ! "
For more entropy :
Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China
Han Beizhong ( President of the Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China )
Yan Jie ( Secretary of the Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China )
E - mail:[email protected ]
Tel . : +86 010 - 62118002
Symposium organizer : Li Tao ( Board member of the Wageningen University Alumni Chapter China )
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