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Soon, will we be able to provide adequate, healthy food for everyone in the world? That is one of the biggest challenges we currently face as a society. And the Dutch Food & Flower industry is tackling that challenge with both hands and an eye on the future!

Over de food & flower industrie

Technologie om de wereld te voeden & vergroenen

The Food & Flower industry is a high-tech industry developing the most advanced greenhouses and horticultural technology, in which vegetables, fruits, plants and flowers can grow with minimal amounts of water, fossil energy, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Work is underway on vertical farms to grow in the least square footage possible, as well as more sustainable crops, which have more disease resistance. And work is being done on robotics, automation, drones and data optimization. On a mission to a green, livable, healthy world.

The challenges

The main goal for the Food & Flower industry is to be able to sustainably feed nine billion people by 2050. And by feed, we mean feeding of people, habitat and planet. To achieve this, we are tackling the following challenges with HortiHeroes and the entire Food & Flower ecosystem:
  • Labor
    The scarcity of labor as well as the need for talent with new perspectives, knowledge and skills
  • Raw materials
    Producing with fewer resources (energy, water, food, growing media)
  • Market
    Shift in customer demands toward local, sustainable, year-round production, transparency about origins, ingredients and production methods
  • Policy
    Changes in laws and regulations
  • Digitalization
    Transition to (semi) autonomous cultivation and taking over repetitive work by robots

Do you want to make an impactful contribution to these challenges? You can do so by working or doing business in the Food & Flower industry!

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HortiHeroes Ecosystem

HortiHeroes is building an innovation ecosystem to foster innovation through collaboration. We collaborate with established companies, startups, knowledge institutions, government and investors to address the challenges of the Food & Flower industry together. We train talent to innovate their businesses from within and connect innovative startups to established companies. Our office is located in World Horti Center, the knowledge and innovation center for international greenhouse horticulture.

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Horti Navigator: een slimme gpt voor startups

Heb je een innovatief idee voor de tuinbouwsector, maar geen idee waar je moet beginnen? Of ben je als startup op zoek naar de juiste testlocatie, onderzoekspartner of financiering?

 

Samen met HortiScience Innovation Center (HIC) hebben we de Horti Navigator ontwikkeld: een slimme GPT die startups helpt sneller hun weg te vinden binnen het Nederlandse tuinbouw-innovatie ecosysteem. Van telers en onderzoekers tot investeerders en testfaciliteiten, de Horti Navigator helpt je de juiste deuren te vinden én te openen.
Zie het als jouw persoonlijke gids door één van de meest innovatieve sectoren ter wereld.

Horti navigator

Ecosysteem Hortiheroes

Click on the image to download it. Would you like to receive the ecosystem in high resolution or have a suggestion to make it even more complete? Then contact us!