The recently institute Dutch Vietnam Smart Horticulture platform helps the horticultural industry in Vietnam to become more professional . Members of this platform pool their electrical capacity and skills to leave answers to questions , expertise , and investments and in doing so they put up to the further exploitation of the Vietnamese horticultural and floricultural manufacture .
This includes the entire horticultural range of mountains from seed to consumer . It is not only about production , post - harvest , and sales but also about aspect like legally sound contracts , landscape painting excogitation , and education .
Initiators and members of the program are Axia Vegetable Seeds , Onings Holland Flower medulla oblongata , Wageningen Food and Biobased Research , Van der Valk Horti Systems , Kneppelhout & Korthals Lawyers , Kuiper Companions , the Dutch Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce , NL.IN.BUSINESS and Kenlog .
The idea to create the platform come from the Vietnamese embassy in the Netherlands , say Henk van Eijk , director of consultancy firm Kenlog and board member of the Dutch/ Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce . “ The Netherlands has a big deal of knowledge and experience in regards to the integral horticultural Sir Ernst Boris Chain , which is something Vietnam has also noticed . There , the economy grows by 8 % every year and the focussing on healthy and sustainable food product is increase . ”
As an example , Van Eijk adopt a tomato cultivation project in a pliant tunnel that provides Vietnam with 18 kilograms of tomato plant per meter every year . “ We can make 80 kilogram with easiness in that case , so there is still a lot to ameliorate upon . ”
MediatorKenlog will represent as a mediator within the political platform . “ We have been active in Vietnam for about seven year now . Among other thing , we have base a training center in Sa Déc , advise a producer of cashew nut , helped with the institution of a cutter for veggie in Hanoi , helped with the carrying out of quality direction systems as well as assignments regarding the professionalization of lily cultivation and helped in the setting up of 500 hectares for a horticultural task . We have also guided Vietnamese ministers and ambassadors when they inflict the Westland in the Netherlands . As a Dutch company and institution , you need to have a good relationship with the Vietnamese embassy and government to get things done over there . It is great that the Vietnamese are direct and wish to push ahead . You do need to make indisputable that there is transparence in everything you do ” , say Van Eijk .
Improving the flower chainThe first project that The Netherlands Vietnam Horticulture Platform will focus on is the improvement of the peak chain and the vegetable chain of mountains in Vietnam . The cultivation mainly takes topographic point in Dalat , with over 5.000 hectare of enhancer greenhouses it is also referred to as the Westland of Vietnam . The sales event of the flowers , for the most part , accept place in the metropolis Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi . “ We aim to improve the range of mountains , from germ to consumer ” , suppose Van Eijk . “ We are talking about starting materials , logistics , production , auctioning , packaging , professional education and so on . We are looking for local partners to start a commercial advance project . finally , we direct for improvement on both sides including financial ones . ”
LiliesOnings Holland Flower bulbs are a renowned bulbs and genus Tuber exporter . The family - run companionship has been around for 65 years and has made quite the name for itself in the exportation of lily medulla . As a fellow member of the new platform , Onings want to win more from the present possible Vietnamese lily market place . “ In many field , there is room for improvements . We would wish to market and disperse our cognition in area like output and technique among others , over there ” , says sphere director Paul Onings .
" The lily refinement is quite a untested food market in Vietnam but , in a relatively simple means , polish and trade is being held when compared to the Netherlands " , states Onings . The refinement includes 120 to 150 million lily each class , of which Onings is in the top five of lily bulb suppliers . “ It is not really our intention to grow even faster per se , but mainly to improve the quality of our lilies . We want to be the beneficial . The country is central in its neighborhood and has a good climate for heyday refinement . Vietnam is a likely export country for flowers but there are still some limitations when it comes to export . Mainly the export permit procedures are still quite problematic now . ”
On December 19 , asigning ceremonytook spot on the Vietnamese embassy in Den Haag . From left to right hand : Mr. Fokke Kracht ( Van der Valk Horti Systems ) , Mrs. Heike Axmann ( Wageningen University & Research ) , Mr. Theo Tiegelaar ( Kenlog ) , Mr. Fred Jansen ( Kenlog ) , Mrs. Ngo Thi Hoa ( embassador ) , Mr. Jeroen Haver ( NL.IN.BUSINESS ) , Mr. Paul Onings ( Onings Holland Flower Bulbs ) and Mr. Nguyen Hai Tinh ( political economy consultant )
What ’s nextThe platform will gather again at the end of February to make up one’s mind on a business enterprise programme and a like scheme . The idea is to make a formalize platform with Dutch and Vietnamese enterpriser and origination . They will become the designer and builders of the quislingism . This political program takes on the project of actualise horticultural chain of mountains or head - based projects . For each project , separate pool will be made .
Source : Agroberichten Buitenland
