China is a huge , agricultural state . Much of its covered cultivation is done in so - squall " solar " glasshouse . These are quite dewy-eyed , applied science - wise . " You make a dirt or concrete rampart ; kind of a wall , " begins Robert Keijzer .
He is Kubo ’s man in China . Kubo is a Dutch nursery undertaking direction firm . " Then you stretch pic over its sunny side . And you grow your crops under that . Very unproblematic , but it works . "
But it could , of course , be significantly more rich and energy - efficient . " Those greenhouses worked all right for long time . However , about eight old age ago , the Chinese government start out down a different path . They begin emphasise modernization . Raw materials are becoming scarcer . And they desire the square footage to become more productive , " say Robert .
add to that - climate modification . " These sort of greenhouses do n’t always do as desired . So , with food provision in mind , people are attempt to receive more reliable systems . "
governance - substantiate modernizationPeople ended up in the Netherlands in the quest for modern farming method . In the past eight years , Dutch companies have build various modern greenhouse in China . These are often demonstration system .
" Those greenhouses , unfortunately , have n’t always been commercially successful . But the Taiwanese government is n’t giving up . Come what may , refinement must be modernisation , " Robert continues .
The Chinese authorization have made considerable money and resources uncommitted for that . And , by now , there are several modern , commercially - sized greenhouses in the country . " Many of them have been built using Dutch engineering . Sometimes also constructed by Dutch technology supplier . Kubo has been allowed to build a good number of these . "
Commercial successThe Chinese are also building mod glasshouse themselves . These often contain high-pitched - lineament Dutch technology . They ’re all fully innovative . However , these gamy - death projects do n’t provide the desire modernisation the politics require to see . A project must not only be modern ; it must also be commercially successful . And that ’s sometimes lacking .
“ True long - term innovation must , after all , make you money , " Keijzer point out . " authorities subsidy wo n’t be never - ending . At some point , the byplay world will have to take over . We ’re not there yet . "
luckily , there are exclusion . “One of our mate in China is such an exception . But , for every project that ’s successful by Western standards , there are at least ten , maybe more , that be money every yr they melt , " Robert concludes .
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