The cutting edge technology of Europe’s biggest greenhouse | DW News

Manual work and automation technology combined here 300 million balcony and garden plants plus vegetables for all of Europe are produced this is M’s flower and the company has the largest Greenhouse in Europe which is larger than 80 football fields five factors led to the company’s Success The first reason Ecology cilia Schwan is our tour guide biking around the 1.4 km long Greenhouse is the healthiest and most practical way for most of the company’s 400 employees to get around this week they’re harvesting 120 tons of tomatoes the new blossoms need to be pollinated so more Tom Tomatoes

Will grow insects do some of the most vital Work do we have several hundred, bumblebees here they’re very important Employees ladybugs help too by eating harmful aphids other beneficial insects such as lace wi larae are also in action together they reduce the need for chemical insecticides reason number two automation robots like this can plant 15,000 cuting per hour it’s the only way to replant entire halls with

Asters one invention that was used here for the first time is trays like these these six packs of lavender will be delivered to discount Supermarkets automated Vehicles pick up the merchandise reason reason number three location the green houses are located in the middle of Europe in Germany close to the Dutch border company boss Tom queers has built new green houses all around the company headquarters and for him it was the right

Decision we’re located next to the highway and have great north south and east west connections we can reach anywhere in Europe quickly that’s a huge Advantage for us on these seedlings were delivered from the company’s branch in Ethiopia near the capital Addis Ababa the mlow greenhouse there employs

Some 600 Ethiopian workers to cultivate young Plants reason number four family today the grandchildren are in charge the company was founded in 1954 by Yan queers it was not until the 1990s that it became an industry leader now Tom creepers and his siblings tend to the family business he’s well versed in all the latest Technical Innovations but still

Strongly believes in a family business model if you want to do something new it won’t bring you any return for 5 or 10 years companies listed on the stock market want to see profits immediately family business just want to see that they’ll be around in 10 or 15 years reason number five

Resources water for irrigation and heat for the plants in Winter Greenhouse businesses normally consume a lot of both but here things are more Efficient solar panels are mounted on the roofs and the excess electricity generated is fed back into the electrical grid every every Day the green houses are heated with wood waste and not gas ecologically it’s the better choice and much cheaper than what many other green houses use the heating also supplies a woodf fired power plant more than is needed for the greenhouse so the excess is fed back into the

Network we want to heat in a climate neutral way we produce luxury products and you have to be able to buy them with a clear conscience so I think we have to move away from fossil fuels rain water from the roofs of the 90 Hector facility is collected in

Basins like these and fed into an irrigation system of course it cost something but it’s also healthier for the flowers rainwater doesn’t contain as much lime and that’s the other great benefit plants love rain water fertilizer is added to these basins for each time type of plant according to the company they are

Self-sufficient when it comes to water because the floors are sealed and the water that comes from above is collected Below in recycle all in all the main reason why the company has been able to grow so dramatically is its economical use of both money and Resources

Europe’s biggest greenhouse is the size of 80 soccer fields. A technical organism, but does it also make ecological sense? Plants are illuminated with LEDs, heated with waste wood, and irrigated with rainwater. Everything is coordinated.

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33 comments

  3. fantastic, they should offer consultancy services so that other countries can also use these techs and farm in a more efficient way

  7. Good luck making it economically viable for cheaper crops like food grains and vegetables. But automation is the future, MNC's will soon pump billions into automated farms and 95% of the farmers will be jobless. Only thing preventing that is farmer lobbies and capital costs, but that is the logical next step.

  9. Family business will hold if you educate children properly. One bad offspring can make the worst decisions and investments and you can't even blame him/her for it

  15. Green fantasies are being pushed in Germany by people that are co-opting their ideas for corrupt purposes. You can’t replace a stable government with fascism because you want to feel less guilty for your industrial success.

  16. wow, it's great to see this in action, and to hear that it's successful even when faced with non-sustainable competition.

  18. Why dont you grow flowers, where there is a good climate for it instead? Then you dont need the greenhouse, and the robots, and the heating.

  24. A bad & nasty retired General Dynamics director, previously worked in San Diego, probably more than 85 yr old now, is exploiting illegally US Gov's monitoring satellite to harass normal US civilians, inside USA & all over the world for his own entertainment & amusement.

    These remote sensors of the monitoring satellites are capable of interpreting the words you're thinking in your mind, may be, by air vibration or by scanning the brainwaves from your brain.

    The Israeli IDF are using similar satellite technologies to spy on the Hamas leadership hiding deep inside the Gaza Tunnels. IDF once released footage of these videos in much degraded resolution.

    This retired General Dynamics director could have been the mastermind behind the plane crash killing the Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown of the Clinton Administration, in the plane crash in 1996 in Croatia.

    The United States as we learned and studied in American high school does not exist anymore; it has been destroyed.

    Joe Biden allows this to happen…

    United States have been dead. American citizens don't have human rights.

    This retired Director of General Dynamics is a disgrace of the United States.

  28. Europe is not a country
    Europe is not a nation
    Europe don’t has capital
    Stop saying europe
    As Europe as a nation doesn’t exist
    Don’t fool the world

  29. Why do the top 10 comments look automated and very sycophantic? The family look unhinged tbf and this is the industry I’m qualified in!

  31. And it's still monoculture great.
    Has any of you heard of diversity or Heathy soil with mushroom life for all the plants to connect and talk with others.
    Also have you never ever heard of geothermal power and heat.
    Like burning wood what waste wood what waste wood I see byproducts of good trees being made into things to burn.
    You want to burn something grow bamboo and the dead plants you harvest well let em dry first so it can be burned.

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