In this series of column , Royal FloraHolland gives the floor to Royal FloraHolland ’s board and managers , with this time CEO Steven van Schilfgaarde .
" In political sympathies , the issues of the day often obtain , and many are short of memory . Our Minister of Agriculture , Piet Adema , late mouth at the National Horticultural Congress , call on nursery gardening to take responsibility for itself . Piet Adema is well - disposed toward the sector , and I know that he ferment hard for greenhouse horticulture where necessary . But I could not place this statement . "
Greenhouse horticulture is already full committed to the energy passage and is one of the few sectors to really attain its goals . The sector has signed the energy covenant , which includes agreements on push nest egg , carbon copy reduction , and pricing . It is up to the regime to keep to the concord in bout ! The politics is not following a consistent line by piling on top of the accord made with hefty fiscal measures . Entrepreneurs can not perhaps go in an precarious business mood in which it is not clear which requirements must be met . In the unconscious process , the agreements made are also being called into question by political party . Like this week ’s motion in the Lower House to come up with new scenario for the abolishment of fossil subsidy . If this is act upon without including the agreements already made on taxation and pricing for muscularity , many of our companies will run into economical problems .
CO₂ positiveThe alignment agreement of December 15 , 2021 , which is less than two years ago , trace nursery horticulture as an industry with slap-up potential to be a leader in vitality - efficient and rotary output of high - calibre product . This was followed by a promise that the administration would further the transition to renewable vim rather than admonish innate gas pedal . The reason is that nursery horticulture can become CO₂ positive . Less than a yr after , in November 2022 , at the sign language of the DOE covenant between the console and the sphere , Piet Adema , Rob Jetten , and Marnix van Rij praised the entrepreneurial spirit and innovative strength of the sector . Every ground to hold dear our sphere and to work on improving the outside competitive position of flower gardening , among others .
This is altogether in credit line with what Marnix van Rij said . According to him , the continued creation of greenhouse gardening in the Netherlands is not in interrogation . Indeed , according to the State Secretary with taxes in his portfolio , the Netherlands should not only keep up this sector but also further develop it and check that it continues to lead the world . That was music to my ears .
Extreme energy taxesLess than a year later , the sector ’s competitiveness is under considerable pressure from rising energy costs . storage locker insurance policy in the retiring two days show a counterproductive growth in the ODE on grid electrical energy , the SDE++ did not work for sustainable heating , and it still takes a foresightful time to obtain a Trachinotus falcatus for geothermic energy . In addition , political leader pay little attention to the important role that glasshouse horticulture plays in equilibrise the electricity grid so that we can all make optimum use of renewable energy . latterly , there has been a political desire to accelerate the simplification of tax welfare for glasshouse horticulture from the use of goods and services of fossil energy .
There is also something peculiar about this , by the way . According to Martien Visser , prof of energy modulation from Groningen , the Netherlands has high " fossil subsidy " because it is measured by the Energy Department revenue enhancement paid by households in the Netherlands . And that energy revenue enhancement is exceedingly high compared to the countries around us . Dutch households pay 45 ct / m3 more than greenhouse company . If it is equalized , Dutch company will pay off 32 Nutmeg State / m3 more than in Germany and 42 ct / m3 more than in Belgium . That means a Brobdingnagian impairment in the competitory place of Dutch horticulturist ! There is something else at play in the European context of use . Because Dutch gardening is of an exceptional level within the EU , we are hardly taken into business relationship in Brussels . Measures are usually not drafted for the benefit of the frontrunners .
sign promisesDutch floriculture companies always manage well . This is evidenced by the fact that they hardly have to reward any corona debt . For a successful energy transition , however , our growers ask bread and butter and a government insurance that does justice to the sector and can be built on . Let politicians put their money where their mouth is and fulfil the signed promises of the ( now outgoing ) console . What we are asking for is a consistent tenacious - condition vigor policy . I recently read somewhere that insurance should not transfer with every parliamentary motility . I could n’t fit in more .
And then this : in other October , Wageningen Economic Research published its annual Agrifood Monitor . Horticulture , include floriculture , hit 5.4 on a scale of 7 . Consumer grasp of gardening and tillable agriculture is the high-pitched of all agrosectors . This includes the extent to which people feel involve in the sectors and whether they are authoritative to them . This is a overnice resultant , which is inconsistent with some medium reports . This could give the impression that consumer are turning away from us . It is a skillful cost increase in a middling unmanageable period for ornamental works polish . "
seed : Royal FloralHolland
