Are n’t we too clean and therefore too vulnerable to disease , bacterium , and fungus kingdom ? This interrogation is coming up more and more often in professional nursery horticulture . For example , in recent month in compounding with the problems in pepper cultivation where bombastic - scale plant life failures can often occur . Then make out examples of growers who have no drain sanitizer at all and also no problems with plant life failure . Jan Willem Keijzer , Hygiene Specialist at Royal Brinkman , shares his opinion . Jan Willem Keijzer
" In the almost 19 years that I have been active in gardening , a lot has shift , " read Jan Willem . " Farm hygienics has become increasingly significant . The impact of problems like Crazy Roots in tomatoes and the cucumber pelt computer virus has become much small . Here , a combination of dissimilar hygienics activity and measures play a crucial theatrical role . "
" We are now in the middle of the conversion to greening and lively development . In the time to come , we will have few resources at our disposal . That calls for a critical look at existing recitation . I would rephrase the inquiry ' Are n’t we too clean ? ' , towards resilient growing . "
At what head does a hygiene measure become the restrain factor for resilient growth?One matter is sealed , according to Jan Willem : hygienics measures stay on rock - substantial necessary in professional greenhouse farming . " If you have a computer virus in the water , you want to be able to fork out it harmless with a drain antimicrobic . After the crop gyration , you want to start blank and the side effects of disinfection ( on , for model , tripods ) are also prissy . "
" However , we do n’t desire to negatively sham the counterweight of ' dirt life ' in the mat or stain with a hygienics measuring stick . An exemplar : hydrogen hydrogen peroxide should keep the organ pipe scheme fresh , prevent oxygen from sinking , and prevent the spreading of pathogens . But an after - essence on good bacteria or fungi in the growing medium is undesirable . "
" We have more and more expertise around the success of resilient refinement , but we also still have a sight to break together in the sector in this sphere , " he continues . " Because it is also challenging , with few and few resources . We do this together , and we need everyone within the sector to make this possible . Resilient growing is not just about the integrated approach ( biological and chemical crop protection products ) . We need to turn many more node . We call this Integrated Crop Management ( ICM ) . Within Royal Brinkman , we have modernise a broad ICM system approach for springy development . Here , hygiene is just one of 15 areas of noesis , which we connect through data . "
" Yes , I think we have become too uninfected in some situations in professional greenhouse land , " Jan Willem say . " However , rent ’s not forget to await back at why these measures were premise . To then take a fresh , critical look at the possibilities of accelerating towards live increase in the future . I am personally passionate about this . “For more information : Royal Brinkman[email protected]www.royalbrinkman.nl
