The current gas damage situation is make quite a stir among both the middling Dutch soul and greenhouse agriculturist , where it is specially noticeable among small - scale line . Strelitzia Kwekerij Blok is one of these small - scale businesses in the ornamental plant life sector . Owner Leo Blok gave his opinion on the place on the company ’s Facebook varlet and explains it in more detail in this article .
Leo with his wife and business collaborator Marlies
Doomsday scenarioThe Facebook post , with the tricky headline ' our doom scenario , ' will have chop-chop watch the eye of many Thomas Nelson Page visitant and addresses the situation the greenhouse is in and the possible future should the situation continue to deteriorate . " It is also not purely my opinion , but also what I hear around me . That ’s how I put it , " says Leo Blok about the substance .
In the message , Leo verbalise about the deficient supplying of gas that he believes could be the decorative plant industry its head . He says that for him , the gasolene provision will be the first to be cut off if it becomes necessary because supplying households will be the first precedency . But the terms this will cause to the ornamental plant cultivation sector has n’t been sufficiently foreground , according to Leo . Plants of almost 17 year old can be lost without sufficient heating plant , not to mention the vigour cost .
" For minuscule - scale nursery gardening like us or other sectors that choose to remain small - exfoliation , this insurance is insufferable . The mega - firms are being shower with subsidy or taxation exemption for innovation or employment , while the small business enterprise are being submit to thick taxes for Sustainable Energy Storage so that innovations are no longer feasible . "
The difference between big and smallAnd there is sure something to be said about the latter in Leo ’s situation . Six geezerhood ago , the company made investment funds to reduce fossil fuels and also benefit from a better nursery clime through dehumidification . That was the underlying idea . Now the grower use dehumidifiers on electrical energy . That has saved them 60 % on gas . But then the Sustainable Energy Stamp came along , and it turn out that small - scale company that had invested in sustainability suddenly discover themselves much more expensive . " Then it ’s the diminished you are , or the less you use , the more expensive you are . For small player , it ’s impossible to imagine paying more because you expend less . "
Leo ’s experience has demonstrate that buy large can quickly economise you as a raiser 4 centime per cubic metre of gas , which therefore promote you to endue and become bigger as a society , something he himself does not care . " You are almost force to become bigger , that is what this was create for . I endeavor to ponder that with a pinprick sometimes , and not to wee off the big ones , but it ’s mainly about the mega - company that hardly have to pay any taxation while we are presented with the broadside . "
commonly the nursery buys its energy one or two years in advance , but because they are small consumer , they are not allowed to buy in the last two long time and have to go with the bushel price puddle . " I do n’t wish about that then , but we had one yr when we were not allow to bribe in . That was last yr , and that was still a sensible damage compared to now . It was 27 cents back then compared to 89 cents this heating yr , and after the DOE revenue enhancement , you speedily end up with 1.25 per cubic meter . That does have an shock on us . "
" We grow hot through the twelvemonth . you’re able to put strelitzias cold in the winter , around 3 to 5 point . Then you do n’t reap until April and go with the atmospheric condition . We get in the winter strong and so we have a cattle ranch flowering from October to May . But with these prices , I ca n’t keep the plants warmer in the winter . I keep the temperature as low as possible . And so then you total to the market with the deal and that will show in the yield . Normally we keep them at 13 degree , then you keep the pace , and you keep a uninterrupted lying-in pattern . So now the flowering has to be later . "
Small but niceDespite all these challenges , the glasshouse itself has chosen to be modest - shell indeed . Since Leo took over the company in Brielle from his father in 1989 , they have scaled down . Where the company then grew tomatoes on one and a half hectares , which was big at the time , they switched to growing efflorescence in 2000 , and since 2010 they have been grow from Luttelgeest on 5000 substantial meters . " Everyone is going bigger , but we just picked the challenge of going belittled - scale , with no staff . But you have to find a Cartesian product to go with it . You do n’t have to start Lycopersicon esculentum on a little ordered series . You have to raise your profile at the auction bridge with something . "
But why on the dot modest - scale ? What ’s the advantage of that ? According to Leo , that ’s hardly a query . " A mass product , you ca n’t key out yourself with that , too much competition . finish is challenging . Developing the crop yourself in your circumstances is what we choose . We do not compromise on caliber by deepen the ontogeny process , the growth rate of the product , and the recording of sales . It is rely on your own product calibre and thus drive your added time value from the market . This is a small ordered series for us , earning your pennies with green fingers and dumbfound dirty fingers yourself ! "
For more information : Leo BlokStrelitzia kwekerij BlokWeteringweg 218315 RL Luttelgeest06 20642504[email protected]Facebook page
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