The Club van 100 , a task of the Greenhouse Horticulture business unit of Wageningen University & Research ( WUR ) , secure that Dutch gardening retains its lead in the field of knowledge . This is done by doing apply strategical research . The Club of 100 is still grow . On June 15 , the 73rd member join : Amstel Agro , a company that address with mineral fertilizer . MPS has been a member since February 2018 . What does the Club of 100 actually do and why is it called the ‘ Club of 100 ’ when there is n’t 100 penis ?
The members of the Club of 100 are suppliers and trading caller in greenhouse gardening . Harold Beek , Deputy Director at MPS , says : “ We are a member , because with this rank and our knowledge we need to contribute to the further sustainability of the sphere . In addition , membership , the associated web and participating in labor render us with cognition and estimation to meliorate MPS ’s products and corroboration standards . ”
The Greenhouse Horticulture business social unit of Wageningen University & Research ( WUR ) in Bleiswijk ( photo : Wageningen University & Research , Greenhouse Horticulture ) .
extra cooperation“The collaboration between the government , the business community and the enquiry institutes establish the gild special , ” says De Vries proudly . “ The WUR Greenhouse Horticulture carries out the research and companies expend the knowledge resulting from this to improve their work method acting . In addition , company also espouse the investigation closely and fleece them up . In routine , we also use their cognition from exercise . I remember this method is unique in the cosmos . ”
But how is it decide which investigations are carried out ? The Club of 100 works like this : three time a year there is a general fellow member ’ get together in which musical theme are pick up and elaborate mind are present . In gain , the advisory council counsel on labor during the ecumenical phallus ’ meeting . Ultimately , it is the members who decide which sketch are to be carried out and thus what the money from the joint pot is spent on . lastly , the labor are presented to the top sphere with which the money can be double . The top sphere policy is a corporate policy of the administration to shake up the Dutch knowledge thriftiness .
SustainabilityThere are currently twelve projects underway and a total of three have been completed . Sustainability always act a part within a projection . In fact , it is a condition that a project must meet . “ If a undertaking is not sustainable in some way , it will not be carried out , ” says De Vries . MPS is need in the project ‘ integral sustainability ’ . This project is about making various strategies in the field of incorporate crop protection ( Integrated Pest Management , or IPM ) measurable . In this way , the environmental encroachment of various IPM strategies can be estimate . This set aside agriculturist to improve their strategy and it becomes vapourous what the environmental shock of a certain strategy is .
A labor that De Vries ascertain personally interesting is the undertaking “ Light and growing ” . This undertaking let in research into the sustainable direction of a crop with light to a summary and resilient harvest . “ For example , we recognize that we can make crop resistant to mould with reddened light . ” The club is not only good as a noesis organisation , but also serves as a internet organisation . “ The great thing about the Club of 100 is that it also result in new partnership . The informal part fulfills a very authoritative internet function in this . So it is also a billet where companies internet and join forces . ”
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