Agriport needs to grow, but do growers still want it in the Netherlands?

Horticulture needs perhaps 470 hectare of additional space in North Holland North by 2035 . This is accord to a ' needs judgement ' among gardening in concentration area Agriport , Grootslag , and Alton . Growth is particularly postulate around Agriport , predicts De Stec Group , which produced a story commission by GreenPort Noord - Holland - Noord and Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Noord - Holland - Noord .

The municipality of Hollands Kroon , which includes Agriport , will discuss the report on 23 October . The investigator analyzed the growth of the area of nursery horticulture over the retiring 22 geezerhood and extended that line to 2035 . Taking into chronicle developments such as robotization and vigor transition , they arrive at the figure of 470 hectares . The demand come primarily from greenhouse vegetables . Demand for undercut blossom land area is seen wane .

CriticismThe Board of Mayor and Aldermen of Hollands Kroon is critical of the news report , according to a letter sent to the municipal council . According to them , the degenerate maturation of Agriport due to the relocation of horticulture from Westland to the greenhouse assiduity country has not been properly take into account . They also escape the trend that entrepreneurs , such as the large tomato grower in Agriport , are explicitly also face at growth abroad . Finally , B&W misses attention to the impact of nursery horticulture outgrowth on ' broad successfulness ' in the expanse .

business organisation climateThe report quotes a grower who clearly shows that he is seem overseas . " We want to expand importantly . But not in the Netherlands . The establishment climate in the Netherlands gets worse every sentence . faculty are becoming much more expensive and difficult to receive . Permit process are made complicated . Therefore , we are already abroad and will definitely not lucubrate in the Netherlands either . "

Names are not mentioned , but Kees van Veen of Agro Care has beenvery criticalof the business mood in the Netherlands in the past times . " We find the business climate in the Netherlands ' unpleasant ' , to put it gently . "

Growth is not an obligationPointing to the fusion correspondence , the college want to defend the " existing contours " of Agriport and focus on " multiple uses of space " . At Agriport , there is still an ' issuable provision ' of 70 hectare . This is not enough , according to the investigator . They do aim out that it should not be an obligation for North Holland to meet the total growth requirement .

" It is not an debt instrument to actually facilitate the demand for infinite . If a regional option is made to ( partially ) facilitate this blank in the future , a blank space necessity of around 320 to 420 hectare can be assumed . The selection to be made is : do we need to cater the quad ? "

View the researchers ' report here ( NL ) .