The ambition is to make our market sustainable and thereby future proof . That is the intellect that , as of 4 February 2025 , environmental certificate will be compulsory . So many growers , so many differences . Some are still at the beginning of the summons , for others it ’s as easy as Proto-Indo European . We fuck to share all of these stories . In the glare this sentence is Bianca van Eijk from agapanthus nursery Eyco . They have had an environmental certificate for years , but now they are bump a problem anyway .
For Eyco , specialised in growing agapanthus in Pijnacker and Portugal , the environmental credential is nothing young . They have been MPS - ABC certified , A+ since 2007 . Bianca van Eijk , co - owner of Eyco , does n’t know any better than registering her body of water employment , vigour use , manure and craw security products every single month . Cor van Eijk , father of Bianca and her pal Danny , started the company in the 90s of the premature hundred , at a different location . Even back then , being an enterpriser , he was conscious of the vigour and water usage and the character of manure and crop protection products he used . Bianca : " You are paying aid to cost , work as in effect as possible , and as a nature lover , you mechanically check that that you do not use any products that are really bad . Nowadays , sustainability is much more of a subject . You take more about it , you talk to other agriculturist , and read from their tips and theme . That is for sure a good thing . "
research for solutionsThe glasshouse in Pijnacker is deposit in a modern greenhouse , and the cultivation takes place in exposed soil . Sustainability is a complex topic , harmonise to Bianca . " We are a low grower . We use comparatively picayune amounts of vigour and we do not use energy all throughout the year . Many large sustainability projects such as geothermal heat , solar panels and wind vigor are just not interesting for us . It would only cost us a lot of money , which we would never be able to garner back . That is why we are looking for different shipway to work as sustainable as potential . By show through MPS , we can keep track of this . We decidedly apply as many constituent products as possible . We attempt to habituate as slight crop protection product as we can . In addition , we are also looking into different cultivation techniques , to allow us to use less water . This is how we attempt to keep improve our sustainability . Every little morsel helps and we are looking for solutions ourselves . "
quick in a few clicksEvery poop , Eyco receives a fresh certification and report with an overview and graphs of their use . " The more you work with this scheme , the easier it becomes . With just a few clicks , I ’m done . But I can ideate that hoi polloi who have less experience with the internet and various system , can have a little more trouble with it . To my forefather , this is all a bit complicated as well . However , do not let this stop you . I always say : if you do n’t judge it , you ca n’t know what you ’re miss . And yes , you have to keep running of what you are using . But it can also provide you with a flock of insight . Gather all your data , take a moment and in our case , we are done within an hour a calendar month . "
More choiceYou’d say that it s all going well . The environmental certification is give out smoothly . Yes … and no . In 2007 , when Eyco was founded , there was n’t any option . MPS was the only provider of environmental certificates . " In that regard , I ’m very well-chosen that Royal FloraHolland has ascertain there is another party . There is more choice , which mean no monopoly for MPS . That forces them to stay incisive in their prices . " That ’s true : all floriculturists can now also go to GreenlinQdata and GLOBALG.A.P. So what is the job ? Bianca : " Part of our bloom are naturalize in Portugal . We would love to switch to GreenlinQdata , but sadly : GreenlinQdata is not uncommitted to growers in Portugal . It is usable to growers in Spain . obviously , there are not enough growers locate in Portugal . It would keep open us a lot of money if we could put to work with GreenlinQdata there as well . Maybe there are more growers who have this same problem ? I would like to say to them : let it be known . "
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