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Rijk Zwaan takes advantage
of new types of cultivation
Much of the world’s lettuce cultivation today takes
In recent years, new cultivation techniques such
are not cultivated in the field but in high shelves,
as hydroponics and vertical farming have been
one above the other, in climate cells under
on the rise. Hydroponics involves growing plants
artificial light. The climate cells allow optimal
on water. This increasingly popular cultivation
control of the conditions and save a lot of space.
technique has a number of key advantages, such
This cultivation technique is ideal for areas that
as being able to dose nutrients more easily and
are naturally less suitable for agriculture but have
accurately, and it is a ‘clean’ cultivation method.
the financial resources and energy for climate
By cultivating in a controlled covered environ-
cells, such as in the Middle East. Rijk Zwaan’s
ment, crops are less susceptible to plant diseases,
breeders are increasingly involved in developing
so there is no or minimal use of chemicals.
varieties suitable for these forms of cultivation.
place in hydroponics. With vertical farming, crops
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