PW-ACTUA Meijer plans to keep expanding with new office building Organisation (NAO). Van Arendonk told the Audience in his speech that he was proud of the growth that Meijer had shown in recent years. ‘Jan and I have become personal friends as well over the years.’ In his view, the new head C. Meijer BV from Rilland has recently opened a new office building. The breeding station and seed sales are therefore based at the same location. C. Meijer BV from Rilland has recently opened a new office building. The breeding station and seed sales are therefore based at the same location. With this step, the company indicates that they have full confidence in the future of the seed potato sector and that they want to continue to expand. ‘The world is in economic turmoil right now. That’s nothing new. The world is changing all the time. Think of the growing world population, for example. There are already 7 billion people right now and they all need food. Because of all those mouths that need feeding, we are faced with a shortage. And we can do something about that shortage. The only thing is that we need the cooperation of the entire chain. What I mean is the payment of licensing rights. New varieties don’t develop themselves. It requires the cooperation of the entire chain. By investing in variety development, we can increase yields and improve efficiency. Just look at our new variety Lady Anna. This is a variety for the chips industry with a high yield and hardly any losses. In order to develop these kind of varieties, we need you. And to end with the words of Mahatma Gandhi: you should be the change that brings change in the world,’ These were the words of Director Jan Muijsers before the opening of the new offices at the premises where the C. Meijer BV breeding station has been based for many years. ‘By investing in variety development, we can increase yields and improve efficiency’, Director Jan Muijsers said at the opening of the new office building. Jewel in the crown Muijsers carried out the official opening together with Kees van Arendonk, Chairman of the Dutch Potato office is a jewel in the crown of all the successes the company has had up to now. According to Van Arendonk, it will also contribute in a positive way to the further development of the breeding and trading company. ● Flailing and ploughing Chinese radish in a single work sequence. Last summer, the consumption grower Tonnie van Peperstraten in Oude Tonge sowed Chinese radish with resistance to the Meloidogyne chiwoodi and Meloidogyne fallax nematodes. The story was published in the September issue of Potato World magazine. These nematodes can cause considerable damage in a potato crop. Although the potato grower had not yet found any of these two nematodes in the soil samples, he is already growing a resistant variety preventatively. The variety concerned is the Doublet from Limagrain in the village of Rilland. One of the conditions for soil improvement is that the green manure crop is finelymixed in the soil. This provides a better distribution and decomposition than when you plough the field crop into the soil. For this purpose, Van Peperstraten invested in a new 3-metre wide Kverneland flail mower. The flail mower is equipped with sideshift and GPS control, which is necessary to run synchronously with the 6-share plough, which also is also 3-metres wide and which is also equipped with GPS. The tractor, which tows both machines runs above them. The fact that the wheels no longer run through the furrow has the advantage that they do not compress the soil, which prevents plough panning. ● Potato World 2012 • number 1 9 Pagina 8
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