Breeding and propagation

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The agricultural attaché network (LAN) supports Dutch companies in the agricultural sector with their international ambitions. The agricultural counsellors and their teams work in the economic departments of 57 Dutch embassies and/or consulates and serve from there 77 countries.

The agricultural counsellors are available for companies and entrepreneurs from the agricultural sector in all links of the chain: from starting material (seed) (animal feed) and primary products to end products, but also the processing industry, supply, technology, services, trade and logistics. The agricultural counsellors are assisted by a team of locally hired employees, including the agricultural advisors who have an excellent local and regional network and the policy and management support staff.

Together, as agricultural teams, they can quickly provide you with the right information to do business successfully:

• finding customized market information;
• obtaining information about laws and regulations, including commodity laws, in your market;
• information on and assistance with the resolution of veterinary and phytosanitary barriers to trade;
• starting up agricultural projects and chain management.

Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo

At Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, the primary focus is on healthy nutrition. Innovators from business, science and education work together on innovations in healthy nutrition, future farming, and bio-circular economy. The Campus is located in a region in which the agri-food business is one of the most productive, sustainable and profitable in the world; where food innovation is in the entrepreneurs’ DNA. Campus buildings Villa Flora and Innovatoren are home to various R&D facilities, entrepreneurs and institutes.

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Fresh Produce Centre

Fresh Produce Centre promotes the interests of companies that are active in the sale of fruit and vegetables and is also a source of knowledge and inspiration. Fresh Produce Centre represents the interests of businesses involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables and is a source of knowledge and inspiration. Its members account for over 80% of total sales of fruit and vegetables in the Netherlands, which are worth around € 15 billion (including growers’ associations).

Fresh Produce Centre has around 320 members. The members are trading companies and growers’ associations involved in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetables. They specialise in the domestic wholesale, import, export, treatment, processing, packaging, storage and transshipment of fruit and vegetables.

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Greenports Nederland

Greenports Nederland is the platform where the six Ducth regional Greenports, the business community, governments and education & knowledge institutions work together to achieve breakthroughs and acceleration on horticultural themes that require a national approach and that are not picked up by other parties. For example: theme's like labor market, energy, healthy plants and people, innovation, internationalization, spatial planning and fresh logistics.

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KAVB

The Royal General Bulb Growers' Association (KAVB) has about 1200 members, most of them bulb growers, bulb forcers and wholesale companies. The association has contacts with governmental organisations and political parties to promote the interests of our members. For instance in discussions about environmental issues like the use of fertilizers and pesticides, restrictions in use of energy, employment, and are negotiating for collective agreements on behalf of our members.

They also provide their members with information about developments in the bulb growing sector. The KAVB is housing the most complete library on flower bulbs in the world. Furthermore,they provide specific services to members: arranging trading regulations, host an independent arbitration tribunal that members can turn to when, for instance, parties have a dispute on a trading agreement, and organize floral exhibitions.

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LTO Nederland

The Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Association is a cooperation between LTO Noord, ZLTO and LLTB. Together they represent over 35,000 agricultural entrepreneurs and employers, with a commitment to the economic and social position of its members. 

The Dutch agricultural and horticultural sector is very diverse, with agricultural entrepreneurs active in a wide range of subsectors such as arable farming, dairy farming, flower bulb cultivation, greenhouse horticulture, tree cultivation and pig farming. The majority of these farmers is represented by the Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Association, via the regional associations LTO Noord, ZLTO and LLTB. Through their membership, they emphasize the added value of an entrepreneurs and employers’ organization which effectively represents their interests at the local, regional, national and international level.

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Naktuinbouw

Naktuinbouw (the Netherlands Inspection Service for Horticulture) promotes and monitors the quality of products, processes and production chains in the horticultural sector. The main focus is on propagating material, of national and international origin. Naktuinbouw is an Autonomous Public Body regulated by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Naktuinbouw has three large departments for the following activities: Inspections, Laboratories and Variety Testing.

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RVO

The Netherlands Enterprise Agency supports entrepreneurs, NGOs, knowledge institutions and organisations. RVO aims to facilitate entrepreneurship, improve collaborations, strengthen positions and help realise national and international ambitions with funding, networking, know-how and compliance with laws and regulations.

RVO is a government agency which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. Its activities are commissioned by the various Dutch ministries and the European Union.

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Plantum NL

Plantum is an association for companies in the breeding, tissue culture, production/trade of seeds and young plants. The companies are active in agriculture, horticulture and floriculture. Plantum NL promotes the interests of its members and acts on behalf of the sector as a discussion partner for governments and interest groups. Strengthening the international competitive position of the sector and of groups of affiliated members is central to this. Plantum NL also functions as the initiator of new developments and a source of information for companies.

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Seed Valley

Seed Valley in the northwest of the Netherlands is the international center of plant breeding and seed technology. It is home to dozens of innovative companies that develop high-quality vegetable and flower varieties for the horticulture sector.

From the Seed Valley region, plant reproduction material and associated technology is exported to customers worldwide, contributing to a healthy and flowering world.

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Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials

A topsector is a sector in which Dutch business and research centers excel worldwide. The Netherlands has nine, including Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials.

Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials comprises all vegetable chains in the horticultural complex and, for the starting materials, the total vegetable horticulture and agri-complex. The topsector therefore consists of the starting materials, production (greenhouses and open ground) sectors and the processing, supply, trade and distribution companies. It is a broad sector with subsectors ranging from vegetables, fruit and trees to flowers and bulbs. The starting material sector is about starting material such as seed, seedlings and seeds.

Within each Topsector, the parties have bundled themselves into Topconsortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKI). The TKIs have drawn up research agendas and objectives for the coming years. Every topsector has its own possibilities that companies can use. You can think of financing your R&D projects (research & development), hire researchers for your innovation project or find collaboration partners.

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