Forty percent of Dutch greenhouse growers are at risk of feed into liquidity problems . This is according to Adri Bom - Lemstra , chair of Glastuinbouw Nederland , in the Financieele Dagblad this weekend , although he is n’t certain whether ' crisis ' is the right word in clip of state of war in Ukraine . " People fighting for their lives is a crisis , I ’m not trusted that ’s how I ’d describe our monetary issues . "
The part that the chairman mentions in the newspaper is higher than the twenty per centum that emerged at the end of last twelvemonth and also higher than the human body of 450 that was mention last week during an LTO round tabular array treatment . The urgency of the problem in greenhouse horticulture has now been realized ( almost ) everywhere . Since the outbreak of the warfare , moreover , ' everything ' has been on the table with politicians .
" That was not the case for a longsighted time , " says the chair of Glastuinbouw Nederland . The interest instance encountered a lot of skepticism and ( political ) statement still do not go down well with the sector . The suggestion made by the Dutch Green Left Party ( GroenLinks ) that the ornamental works cultivation sector should ' just stop growing and use gas ' is not well received . " nursery horticulture can not even stop using gas at all at the minute , because with 9 % of gas intake we supply 11 % of Dutch electricity . "
Without horticultural electrical energy , the visible radiation would go out for 1000000 of Dutch hoi polloi , the newspaper summarises . Just this weekend , agriculturist were called in to help equilibrize the grid , Chrysanthemum grower Marcel Leeuwis uncover on Twitter .
Vandaag nieuw record stroomopwekking door zon en jazz . Momenteel wordt er bizar stroom opgewekt door de zonnepanelen en windturbines . Tuinders moeten daarom nu noodgedwongen de lampen aan doen om het stroomnet te redden . Anders crasht het stroomnet . 🙈 .pic.twitter.com/78KD4QFrZV
Tweet above : " Today a unexampled record in electricity generation by sun and wind . At the moment there is a bizarre power output from solar board and nothingness turbine . grocery gardeners are now force to turn on the lights to save the power grid . Otherwise the power control grid will crash.pic.twitter.com/78KD4QFrZV
- Marcel ( @LeeuwisMarcel ) March 19 , 2022
The intact story in Het Financieele Dagblad can be readhere , behind a paywall .
LTO Nederland investigate the price Leontyne Price increases among James Leonard Farmer and marketplace gardener and how they affect agricultural entrepreneur . By means of a study , it also analyse whether the increased costs are pass on in the chain and what the economic effect are . learn more about the study here . The clause also curb the link to the survey .
Just over the boundary line from the Netherlands , Ronnie Jansen grows strawberries . He expresses the hopeon LinkedInthat retailers and consumers will take the increased production toll into account .
The aforementioned round table treatment receive a great muckle of ( national ) media attention . To the satisfaction of LTO , who write more about ithere . The same interestingness group also give an update on Friday on the warfare in Ukraine and the consequence for farmers and marketplace gardeners . View the update here .
Contract price of accelerator pedal winter 2022 on TTF until 18 March . Click here for elaboration and current prices
Speaking of updates , allow ’s take a look at thegas toll . On the Title Transfer Facility , the Dutch gas trading platform , the contract damage for winter 2022 closed on Friday 18 March at over 93.7 euro centime per megawatt hour . The daily petrol cost for an April declaration concisely shot below 100 euro cents between 8 and 10 a.m. this forenoon . The lowest damage in three week , according to , among others , Nu.nl .
TheNOS(Dutch news program government agency ) publish a story about ' a boom ' for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate as a result of the eminent Department of Energy price . Producers of sustainable energy can do without subsidies . " malarky and sun do not require a euro subsidy at the second " , says Olof van der Gaag , chair of the Dutch Sustainable Energy Association ( NVDE ) . " At the moment it is sustainable energy that keep the energy bill within limits . Fossil is now unreliable and expensive , while sustainable is affordable and reliable . "
Van der Gaag does not wait newfangled project to be congeal up en masse without subsidies . " The investment are about 10 . I do n’t expect the cost of natural gas to persist high-pitched for that long . At the starting time of the COVID-19 crisis , flatulency was still almost spare . "
Apart from vim prices , there are also plenty of other things happening . Both in the Netherlands and in Flanders , Belgium , attention is being paid tohousing refugee . TheDutch Employers ' web Agriculture and Horticulture provides an update . They write , among other things : " On the basis of the Temporary Protection Directive for Ukrainians , refugee are entitled to care , education and memory access to the labor grocery , in plus to caparison . The latter will most likely be possible as of 1 April next . This will happen through a irregular exemption from the obligation to have a study permit . Instead , there will be an debt instrument to account . Practical matters such as applying for a BSN , compulsory health insurance , and a bank account will be hash out further in the come weeks . "
The Flemish Task Force for Ukraine is look for farmers and horticulturalists to find sustainable solutions for refugees from Ukraine after the initial hand brake tax shelter . A digital housing tool was developed for this function onwww.vlaanderenhelptoekraine.be , Boerenbondshares . A sum of 18,000 sustainable accommodation locations are being search .
trade in with Russia , Ukraine , and surrounding land is halted or seriously hampered . CBSshares statistic record that in 2021 over 3000 Dutch companies exported products to Russia . Almost 2000 company imported products from Russia . Flowers , raw materials , agricultural production , and machinery are mentioned .
The NOS reporteda border blockade between Poland and Belarusby contestant since Saturday morn . Hundreds of trucks were soon stuck in dealings jams as a outcome of the blockade . " Every euro of patronage with Russia kill Ukrainian citizens " , theNOSreported .
The Dutch embassy in Moscow and the Consulate General in St. Petersburg are machinate a webinar on Tuesday 22 March , in cooperation with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency ( RVO ) , on doing business in or with Russia . Read more about the webinar program and file here .
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