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- How efficient farming in the Netherlands is producing 20 times more food with 1/4 the water and the most sustainable agriculture systems in the world. It's the first episode of Freethink's The Future of Food. Subscribe: freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-...
Amidst climate change, a growing population, and people consuming more of less sustainable food, how will we feed our future world? The answer may not be increasing resources--land, water, and employees--but rather improving production efficiency to create more sustainable farming of crops. The key question: How do we increase the amount of food we produce while using the same or fewer resources?
The Sustainable Development Roadmap from an Unexpected Superpower:
When it comes to scaling agricultural production sustainably, one small country has a very large impact. Bolstered by a national commitment to produce twice the amount of food with half the resources, the Netherlands has become the world’s #2 produce exporter. The close collaboration between the government, science organizations and the food industry have driven impressive innovation and an efficiency that’s unmatched anywhere else in the world.
On a normal open-field tomato farm, one could expect 4 kilograms of yield per square meter. In a high-tech greenhouse in the Netherlands, that number shoots up to 80 kilograms of yield per square meter, with 4X less water. That’s a 20X improvement on output! And it’s not just tomatoes--the Dutch are #1 in the world on producing chilis, green peppers, and cucumbers (measured by yield per square mile). With conservation and sustainable food as two of the most important global issues, could other countries copy their approach to help save the earth?
Sustainable Farming Practices Driven by AI
What is sustainability driven by? The technology behind these greenhouses allows for an extreme level of control over water, light, temperature, and CO2--all of which are finely tuned and optimized. Constant testing on countless variables is what drives these facilities and could be the future of our planet’s sustainable food systems. Tests can be as simple as comparing different hues of LEDs to increase tolerance against pests, or as advanced as a moth-killing drone.
In addition, eco friendly technology is simply getting better. More and more, efficient farming is becoming automated, using artificial intelligence to find the optimal conditions. By learning the behaviors of plants, climate computers can adjust conditions far better than a human.
Scaling Efficient Farming: It’s All About Knowledge Sharing
The Netherlands is not just thinking about the Netherlands. Besides leveraging technology in efficient ways, these innovators are exploring how to use their findings on a greater scale. For example, their greenhouses emulate climates across the world in order to optimize growth outside of the country. As they learn about what’s optimal in Columbia, for example, they can then transfer that knowledge and help build sustainable food systems across the earth. This level of big picture thinking could be a game-changer as we tackle global warming and climate change - one of society's greatest challenges in the coming years.
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If you censor is because you can not stand the truth that this nonsense is failing this type of agriculture wont be the future in fact indo european you are the past the future will be something different and you will be replace along with all your stupidity...
I want to work here. I just love it.
Are you aware of the brutal dutch colonization and enslavement and massacre of the Indonesians for years???
People often get stuck on "we need to produce more" rather than we need to waste less. According to the USDA between 30-40 of the food supply becomes waste. This is where we need to start, we can feed more people with the current means of production we just need to increase availability
Definitely, an issue that needs to be addressed. Improving the availability of perishable foods contributes to food security. However, packaging, storage, refrigeration, shipping, overland transportation costs, trade barriers, and corruption all add up and negatively affect the distribution process of food, where it goes, and who receives it.
Way true talk about inefficiency
30 to 40 what? Percent?
Yep grow to be fresh, only Your shopping at the groceries will not be a thing, like it is now! You go to the farmer direct!~
No Processed Foods, NO WASTE, With the right kind of City Centers~ PEOPLE in the country side can do the same!
@@TheBookofLab dishes
Why is this video not about Regenerative Agriculture? I'll tell you why...big business can't profit from actual sustainability.
Regenerative Agriculture is very needed and wonderful. They do mention in the video that even if we turn all habitable land into cropland, we would still not have enough to feed everyone. Whether this is true, I don't know. Systems like these are a good solution because they have quicker harvests and less water, although the nutrients must just be from sustainable sources. I feel like going super vertical is a better option, growing food against buildings even! Affordable systems for anyone to grow in their own dwelling (flat, house).
@@dylandutoit2381 It should be considering that we'd need 6 earths if everyone lived like an American
Yes
THIS
I agree, if more people know about Permacutlure❤️🌱
I live in the Netherlands & this is really the tip of the iceberg of what they are doing for a sustainable future. It's amazing to see all of this in action - esp from such a tiny country
Inspiring!! so glad someone is doing it. The world needs to take this blue print and implement it
Though the population is decreasing but the consumption per person is ascending but the question is how to purchase these modern sophisticated technologies in third world countries
That's only one way of looking it. Would you want to live squished in between greenhouse deserts?
Creating tomatoes from a greenhouse where the vegetables don’t see the sun… not the best scenario.
@@stephaniep847 With changing climate, it's adapt or die. Our tomatoes might not have the best taste, but they're edible and can be grown during the entire year
I'm not really patriotic, but when I see things like this it makes me a proud Dutch man.
Be proud of every good thing your country does and represents. Each country's uniqueness is what makes it interesting. For example, If we go to China, we want to experience the uniqueness of China & its culture. If we visit the Netherlands, we want to experience all that makes the Netherlands unique and different in the world. It would be a tragedy if every country in the world looked and felt like all the others. How boring and homogeneous.
You absolutely should be! Leading the way for the rest of the world. Your country is doing amazing
Your country owe so much to Indonesia
@@azeeliaputri560 I know what happened in Indonesia and its horrible, but the rape and murder happened also the other way around. And what about Japan? Ow and do we really want to live in the passed? Our king actually apologized very recently.
azeelia putri stfu bro European colonization was the best thing to happen to your shithole country.
This remind me of the first time the Netherlands came up with a “brilliant” agricultural revolution (super efficient stock breeding) that led to the situation we’re in now. Although we benefitted a lot from the new inventions, maybe we should consider the (long-term) consequence of a word wide expansion of these new techniques first this time....
I studie at the university of Wageningen where a lot of the efficient live stock production methods where researched, and now that the next big thing is coming partly from here I personally sense too little reflective behavior.
You grew up in a world where farming practices and fossil fuels led to global warming. I grew up in a world where the world was cooling and nuclear winter could tip us into the next ice age. In the meantime, the USSR collapsed and we used globalism to enrich the third world and end communism forever. Except China had different ideas. Now we are divided in every way possible and we are being pushed into civil war or nuclear war, take your pick. So while it makes sense to consider the mistakes we might make in the future, maybe we should not be manipulated so easily into a global war, or a civil one.
How's your experience in this university? Could you rate it from rest of the agricultural degrees offered by other international universities? Also What's criteria for masters in agri studies for international students?
@@Greg-yu4ij The moment you claimed that China is communist you completely lost me dude. China is merely the USA but with the government having the power. Everything else in practice is the exact same.
Thanks Neitherland they are solving problem they are not even going to face, It's going to be us Indians and Chinese so a very heart felt thanks
It would be good if you can develop sustainable methods for farming in all the deserts of China and India. 🙏🌻
Yes if it can be used in india and china it would be so great.i think China will be able to but I am not so sure about our country India.
This can be one tool in our toolbox but there's no one size fits all for the whole world. We need diversity of ideas with sustainable practices in mind including small scale farming, organic farming, permaculture, native culture, old wisdom, new tech, back yard gardening, and so on.
I say do all of it!!
I think you're horribly wrong. The fact is that we will be 9 billion on 2050 and if we want to achieve sustainability EFFICIENCY (doing more with less) is KING. Permaculture can be usefull, old wisedom can be inspiring, but small scale, back yard and organic farming are all inherently less efficient. As such, they should be discarded as counterproductive.
@@luismariomiller5707 Back yard gardening can be done using permaculture principals and so can be done in an energy efficient way.
@@luismariomiller5707 backyard gardening is more of a hobby for fun then a garden for food
@@luismariomiller5707 You can’t grow grain and pulses on scale using this technology. The costs in terms or the energy used and the value of the products produced don’t stack up.
Small holdings using regenerative technology can produce three yields a year where once we produced one. If we want to feed the world we need to look at what we eat (less meat) and how we produce it.
I want to live in the climate controlled grow houses! Winter on one side, summer on the other :)
Add a ski slope and a beach and you have yourself a business!
@@freethink And that, boys and girls, is why the hype took away our last hope at making global progress
You do live in one of those.
this was before covid just to let you know I think and try to grow and yes I lost it all since video but I need push,
This is pretty crazy when you think of industrial agriculture and waste and just how the chemicals go into the watershed etc. The tomato thing is insane. Where I live we have local green house tomatoes and the quality is better than imported but it costs X3 times as much for 1. Using this not only could we reduce wasted transportation but more people could eat better food. God bless you orange wearing dutch people!
The amount of glass, rare earth, and metal needed to produce like that for everyone, the energy it'd need to operate all those greenhouses... Whereas you can produce a lot per metre squared by diversifying production in an agroforestry system without relying on produces made out of petrol, gas, or on nuclear energy and such. Without even speaking of the cost, i'm unhappy enough to rely on banks to help me buy my little spot of land and shovels, and pickaxes you want food gardeners to be like the cattle producers and rely on subventions and credits to keep them afloat ?
"...the future of the Netherlands should not be to be a food producer for the rest of the world. We should be a developer for the rest of the world." Well said.
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and in the future, the number of unemployed in the netherlands will increase, because all jobs are taken over by Ai, is it realy "Well Said"?
Holland alone can feed the whole world with their love for agriculture. I love this country so much ❤️😩
Sure sure
Exporting knowledge is the way to go, especially for a small country as The Netherlands.
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Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies. Food forest
I would love to build this using that knowledge as self sufficient for homes. Imagine having a compact self sufficient farm/garden that could produce more then enough food for you and family. With little to no effort and easy maintenance uses their knowledge. I would totally invest.
it is! possible to grow sprouts in a tiny container and herbs in pots on window sills. ifyou hae a balcony ir garden even better
Will it be easy to operate the device and repair it or you don't mean self sufficient as much as you mean self operating ?
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies.
Have elevated rain collection, use gravity for pressure. Automatic watering system. Food forest. Underground House in hill.
And there can be a green house attached to the house to have crops in winter or tropical crops also. Look up earthship
Who said we had to listen to the government?
I'ma do what I want. Anyone who gets caught well you probably deserved it for not being better
What does the future look like when we grow our own vegetables again in the garden and finally become independent again !
What if you don't have a garden?
@@tomhendriks2215 you can do it inside but its kinda expensive or not, depends where you stayed
@@tomhendriks2215 you rent land of grow in it illegally
@Nubia Wonder let's do this or the New World Order will control the food you eat
I think for some people its sadly just not an option financially or realistically, but if you have the opportunity i think it’s something everyone should give a try!
This is amazing in terms of resource use and inputs (water, land, nutrients etc.), but I'm curious on the energy use to power large scale, industrial greenhouses (i.e. for the tech used, lighting, temperature regulation etc.) compared to outdoor, traditional farming. In other words, is it also more energy efficient, and does it produce less greenhouse gases, to use such technologies? I mean this in the entire life-cycle, from production to transport.
Also doesn't seem particularly scalable either. Great you can grow 4x as many tomatoes with a quarter of the water per metre squared - but can you do that on a large scale?
The amount of glass, rare earth, and metal needed to produce like that for everyone alone is enough for me to conclude it is not. Whereas you can produce a lot per metre squared by diversifying production in an agroforestry system with nothing produced out of petrol, gas, nuclear energy and such.
Lies again? World Hunger Work @ Home
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies.
Yes it easily scalable. Current dutch high tech greenhouses measure dozens of hectares each. They have also started on the era of industrial scale of greenhouses. That would be hundreds of hectares per establishment.
If you forego initial capital investment (these days mostly only companies can start large greenhouses) , the cost of energy , nutrient solution , etc is worth due to the quantity and quality of the produce.
What the creator of this video didn't mention is that the Netherlands can achieve such high efficiency due to the climate and land situation of it. For example carbon enrichment of the internal atmosphere of the greenhouse can increase noticeably the photosynthesis efficiency of the plants. Southern European countries can't really do that. Large part of the growing period necessitates for often cooling of the greenhouse. This is done through air exchange of the interior air with the exterior. This in return means that the carbon you used to enrich the internal atmosphere is gone. You would need to reenrich every few hours. This isn't something you can do. I can't remember another noticeable example on top of my head but I am sure there are.
If we want to talk about the future of food production then vertical farming should be the holy grail. It basically adds a whole new dimension to farming , quite literally. With greenhouses we attempt to take control of various environmental factors so we can ensure ideal growing conditions for our plants. Vertical farming take this to 100% and allows to multiply the effective arable land. At that point you stop caring about how fertile is your land because it doesn't matter. You stop using traditional soil farming. You can even have such a farm in the middle of the city.
Lastly I need to point out that the fellow Dutch colleague wasn't that clear on a specific point. We don't just want to reduce fertilizer usage. We want to increase the utilization rate of the fertilizers used. There is a hard cap to how much you can reduce fertilizer usage. The plant still needs a certain amount of nutrients to grow. You can't go below that limit. So it is better to refer to this as an increase of utilization rate than straight out usage reduction. These two are completely different things. Besides most greenhouses rely on hydroponics (out of soil cultivation). You can't have hydroponics and no fertilizers.
One last thing, we lack the processing power and technological capabilities to increase food utilization rate (reduce food waste) effectively. In other words for every dollar or euro used in reducing food waste , it would have been more efficient to invest that dollar or euro on greenhouses or vertical farming or creating new cultivars more suitable for human consumtion.
This channel deserves a much bigger audience. Brilliant content!
Thanks so much, glad you like it!
This video is trash. Climate change is a scam
Not much talk of insects, pollination and ecosystems.
money,money first.
@@uldymuldy there is literally not even 1 thing on this earth that involves humans and does not involve money, I could go and chop wood, grow tomatoes and I will die of hunger or cold because I will have literally no money to sustain myself for bills and basic necessities. it is very sad that money will be a big criteria, but efficiency also. more money efficient more energy efficient. more profitable.
No just moth crushing drones lol
Sure their was moth killing mini drone pollination no but theirs so many varietys that self pollinate now all it needs is some air flow. I have grown a few plants indoors they grow fine with no pollinators
Compare it to your average agriculture with lots of pesticides and overuse of land which in turn degrade the soil and decrease the insect population(Kiss the Ground is a good documentary that discusses this topic and other new farm-methods), those don't favor insects and ecosystems! By using these methods you have more space for nature to flourish. If you use less land for the same production you have more space for other things(including nature).
is a success in terms of space and Water, but what about energy consumption?
Even if it had a high energy consumption it would still be better than the open field solution as long as it produces more kg of food per liter of water used and tonn of CO2 released. But that's could be a good point to perfect it they would probably have to secure clean energy sources for the greenhouses.
It's a good question! Greenhouses do use a lot of energy, but they have been able to use geothermal sources to get both heat and electricity. www.thinkgeoenergy.com/geothermal-heating-helps-dutch-greenhouses-hit-co2-target/
That said, the Netherlands overall are actually behind a bit on renewable energy relative to the rest of Europe, but are quickly catching up. www.export.gov/article?id=Netherlands-Energy
Light pollution is a big problem
Freethink great feed back point for @Luciano Lizana’s good question : how about : on the patch way to make geothermal energy : we have to dig down deep inside our earth : what type of energy consumption we use to do that digging ? Do we do well math to assure energy consumption won’t effect our climate change and keep do harm to our planet as already been damaged ?
@Luciano Lizana , this Micheal Moore film is eye opener to watch and see about Energy consumption in the planet we live in : czcams.com/video/Zk11vI-7czE/video.html
I’m Vietnamese. I love watching this video. I wish i can move to your country to work in agriculture. Because i love planting vegetables. Your country has good agricultural technologies
This is why agriculture is very important but some people ignore it
The little moth drones are both hilarious and terrifying.
Totally
Thank you for the informative video. The outstanding yields are noteworthy and water usage is very low. But what about the total cost of inputs per kg of product? Additional factors also need to be considered to calculate the aggregate cost of producing the food (e.g., energy costs, labor, etc.)
Out of the world's entire land area of 149 million sq. km, 51 million sq. km is used by the agriculture sector alone, out of that only 11 million sq. km is enough to produce sufficient food for the current population.
40 million sq. km (nearly 4 times the area required to produce food for human consumption) is used for grazing and animal feed production.
While, only 37% protein for of entire human population comes from animal sources and rest of it comes from plant sources.
That's a lot of land being used for non human consumption already.
On top of that, 25% to 33% of the food that is produced gets wasted.
So if we just focus of below 2 items, then we as Human species should be able to feed the world 5 times over with surplus left behind.
1. Distribute food in more efficient way
2. Manage the land that is already being used for Agriculture better (without encroaching on Forests) for example switching to plant based protein or at least switching to more efficient animal protein source like chicken / fish
Expecting to feed the world's population with diet of An Average American is just not sustainable in long run.
Source: ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/02/27/infographic-food-loss-waste
Not hating on anything but, these things are expensive imagine how much energy is required to replicate the sun from LED lights. How much would it cost to actually make these greenhouses and when will it end up paying for itself. Also there is a lot of plastic involved in this which is going to harm the environment. Also in poor countries where there is hunger how are they going to get the resources to make these green houses.
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Thank you for your questions for us. From India ❤️.
Good point
Good point! The energy required to grow these crops is indeed high! One of the biggest projects for greenhouses in the Netherlands right now is to use Geothermal energy to warm and supply enough light to the greenhouses. (this source of energy is green and nearly infinite.) here is a link to two proffessionals discussing the usage of geothermal energy in greenhouses: czcams.com/video/iuKizOT-s-s/video.html&feature=emb_logo
The plastic involved isn't necessarilly going to harm the environment as it isn't dumped into the oceaan or landfills,(probably..) it may be recycled?
Not every poor country needs to build greenhouses to get their food?! I think the big message here is to look to new sustainable sources of farming instead of using old techniques which often use wayy more water then needed and also use pesticides.
hope this helps! (sorry for any bad grammar or spelling)
You forgot to mention the insane amounts of fertilizers that are needed. Guess where these fertilizers come from and how they are made. It's not done in a sustainable way by a long run.
The biggest problem of these type of farming is that small farmers cannot afford these kind of infrastructure
Who cares about them
Maybe it is time for the small farmers to think bigger - hydroponic - and you will produce vegetables and proteins
Small farmers should choose permaculture anyway, at that scale it's much more interesting
This is where governments need to step in
Who else has been sent these for class and has started getting them on their recommend on youtube?
Just me? Okay 👌
150 lt of water for a cup of coffee seems inclusive of the buoyancy provided to the ship transporting coffee across the ocean... I have a feeling the same insight into dutch vegs production would account for all these led lamps, drones, air conditioning, pumps, energy intensive neural network, so quite a lot of energy, rare earths and complex supply lines for machinery always in need for maintenance and ultimately susceptible to aging, but perhaps not a lot of water.
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The initial calculation of production capacity ignores the fact that we throw away half the food we grow, and here in Canada we throw away 60 percent.
Amazing. Can’t wait to see this technology exported around the world. Especially to countries deeply in need of food with water shortages. Go Netherlands 💪🏽
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on and collect rain on. End farm subsidies.
they'll never
Amazing. Can’t wait to see this technology exported around the world. Especially to countries deeply in need of food with water shortages. Go Netherlands
Every country must start futuristic farms today
I am an Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering student for this very reason. I want to help in achieving sustainable agriculture to feed the world and still leave room for nature
Have you studied Permacutlure?
The real future is in soil microbiology. Rediscover and work with the beneficial microbes in our soil.
keep as close to nature as possible
That’s great stuff! I like the drones that have pest recognition software...and attack...without chemicals that cause me to get sick! So when I plant my permaculture garden and fruit nut orchard, I guess I can buy a few drones to fly around my property and take out selected pests. Won’t even have to drive to Walmart 🍄🌈😃🤙
Aquapony, Vertical Farms, Artificial Lights (Grow Lights), Solar Energy and Composting are the recipe to start to be self-sufficient. We need to integrate all this on large scale.
Better food preservation, more seeds in banks, more higher quality food packaging. More use of the 80/20 rule. What if the UK produced like Holland did?
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as promise as it sound, it all still comes down to MONEY. period.
And that is wrong because...?
Then start buying their product so they can continue doing a great job
Yeah imagine these tomato's would be 20 times cheaper than before!
Well duh of course it costs money, what did you think was going to happen they used a genie to wish for it.
Netherlands is not only agriculturally before the rest of europe, but also culturally forward minded
I just wish that this can be implemented in so many countries, so we can avoid hunger in the whole world.
Hunger could be greatly avoided world wide if gov Simply let people grow their own food.
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies
@@bvegannow1936yeah right. Everyone has the expertise and time to grow their food individually...
The energy and nutrient costs must be incredible. Put windmills and say sustainable 10 times and POOF its a ‘sustainable system’
good old fashioned dutch windmills
Led lights don't use that much energy.
Nutrient is collected in pigfarm airwashers.
Combined whit a terra floor heating?
@@markknoop6283 you are looking at mechanical solutions for a natural issue. Cost of production of leds and floor heating installations. Granted using waste from pig farms is good but if you look at the system as whole the pig farm will also be consuming considerable ressources. Thinking of systems as a whole..
@@ProLudicrous of course growing meat or vegetables kost nutrition and energy.
The fact is this indoor you can grow much more food per m2 all year round whit lot less resources.
And you can produce much closer or within every city and that save transport resources every day.
@@markknoop6283 transport is not that expensive considering value ber cubic meter of the food. I disagree on energy, sunlight is the best for plants, lights costs energy and resources
The increase yields using less natural resources and practically chemical free is a step in the right direction. Amazing they get 80x more tomatoes, in a few decades we're likely to see this number quadruple as they improve the science.
High tech greenhouses aren’t the shovel needed to dig humanity out of their grave of over-consumption that has created food insecurity in the first place.
This is super great 👍
I have a dream that one day I'll do my M.sc in Wageningen University and research inshaAllah...
Ya Allah make my dream come true🙏
In shaa Allah brother, I am in Eindhoven Technical University, born in Holland.
we produce more food then we can eat most of the food produce is put into the earth again. we have plenty
As a Dutchy I would love to see a docu about how the Cattle farming of the future will look like. I see a lot of talk about reducing water usage to grow crops in this video. But the water needed for cattle is way more and it's also way more destructive to the climate. Great video!
*** "Modern industrial cattle farming" uses more water and is way more destructive to the climate. Regenerative agriculture is entirely possible. Corporations are not willing to make less of a profit for sustainable practices.
A quick curious question - is the food grown by these methods as nutritious and safe as the food grown by traditional organic farming? Because as fun and exciting this new possibility looks, it would be a huge waste of electricity if it hampers with the nutritional value of food.
But kudos to these people for coming up with this technology.
agronomy student here; as far as macro- and microelements that make up the nutritional value in food there is nothing we cant provide the plants within a controlled environment like in this example. It's actually easier than in organic farming, as there are no pests and disease to deal with (meaning there is also no need to use chemicals to protect the plants). There is of course room for improvement in simulating the conditions for optimal nutrition (perfect growing environment is not necessarily equals to that), but it's impossible at the moment to provide as much food as the world needs with exclusively organic farming.
@@matic11111222222 The amount of glass, rare earth, and metal needed to produce like that for everyone, the energy it'd need to operate all those greenhouses... Whereas you can produce a lot per metre squared by diversifying production in an agroforestry system without relying on produces made out of petrol, gas, or on nuclear energy and such. Without even speaking of the cost, i'm unhappy enough to rely on banks to help me buy my little spot of land and shovels, and pickaxes you want food gardeners to be like the cattle producers and rely on subventions and credits to keep them afloat ? Get your head out of your obviously idiot teacher's ass, fucking incompetent who never put his hands in the dirt and wanna pretend he know how to grow food cuz they read a book about it
@@matic11111222222 you shouldn't believe the books full of lies but get into the practice and use your own mind
Not at scale, this is another attempt at quantity over quality - very unlikely to work
@@gga449 They clearly have quality at the highest standard with this method.
French farmers around Paris in the years 1900 were yielding 10 times what conventional veg farmers are getting now with chemicals... Food for thoughts guys...
manure seaweed crop rotation..bill gates does! not! need the.money
Fun fact: Those "Biobest" tags/packets you see are full of tiny mites that eat pest insects off the plant, so the farmer doesn't need to use pesticides for them. Cool stuff!
NL is great. NL should be a developer and share know-how with the world.
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Seaweed species of commercial interest in Croatia include Laminaria digitata and Fucus species (Fucus vesiculosus, Fucus serratus and Fucus spiralis), which are harvested primarily for their valuable carbohydrates, Laminarin and Fucoidan, respectively. The value-added sector of the seaweed industry in Croatia has emerged to produce attractive, high-quality products for use as functional body care products and cosmetics. However, there is, to date, limited activity aimed at exploiting seaweed resources as materials for functional food ingredients with enhanced health benefits that go beyond basic nutrition for the consumer. The CCRES ALGAE Research Programme is currently working at developing the area of marine-origin functional foods in Croatia.
This is excellent! I think it would be great if we can have those highly advanced greenhouses in our own backyard. That would even save more I think. But of course it would have to be affordable!
We recently made a video that included this indoor vertical farm- not quite the same, but a great DIY way to get involved with vertical farming! czcams.com/video/_BSVJHhaZf4/video.html
@@freethink Thanks! I'll check it out later :)
We need a complete re-think of "individualized" methods of the future farm.
I say keep the local farm communities alive through a well thought out plan. Do a one-eighty with the beneficiaries of subsidies.
Only healthy products that meet the highest standards for optimal health qualify.
We need a convergence of ALL methods, sewed into one agri-modle, to push forward a massive paradigm shift.
I call my version of these combined ideas "AgTown".
One caveat, Farmers/ Ranchers (my term is FRANCHERS) must "OWN" the whole 'company' and own their own land and home.
No corporations, only a well thought out and planned version of a Co-OP that I have been working on since I was a youngling on the family farm/ranch in Oklahoma.
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Love this idea...
We put both your indoor tech and my AgTown concepts together and we can share the pleasure of bring back a healthy planet while eating incredible foods.
Watch as much as you can on regenerative agriculture. Save the acres for regenerative but occupy the town center, with vertical indoor farms.
Carbon Cowboys is a great series to start with.
I believe that we can only "restore" degraded existing farmlands with the understanding of the principles of
Moving, Mobbing, Mowing as Joal Salatin puts it.
Greg Judy, over at Green Pasture Farms in central Missouri proves this correct every day. He only takes on the bad acres when leasing them and turns them into something amazing.
Geoff Lawton speaks volumes over in Australia with his Permaculture Research Institute.
John D. Liu talk about Regreening the Desert in an eye opening documentary.
The proof from these men are on full display, every day that this is THE only set of principles that will be tolerated when deciding who gets subsidies and tax breaks... this theory along with vertical farming can put the local farm communities back on the map.
I call my Vision of new agriculture towns "AgTown"
I'd be happy to discuss AgTown if you have serious input or concerns to offer.
We cant loose (financialy) with this plan, all customers will have access to the best foods whether vegan or omnivores. They'll all have a single stop and go for every tastebud (accept junkfood)
Loved the idea....!!!
I hope they also grow staple food like paddy and wheat and legumes with this method...
I hope all governments realise the planet crisis and do research and investment in vertical farming....
I hope the future of employment opportunities in India is vertical farms rather than IT....!!!
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I think the point: "If everyone on earth ate the diet of the average american [...]" is quite good, but the conclusion that we need to increase the density of food production is bad. Instead it seems way easier, cheaper and faster to adapt our food - or even better: general - consumption behaviour. Obviously there will still be the need for alternative farming methods, but we could approach them with way less pressure and thus longterm solutions more comfortably over shortterm solutions.
Fascinating! I hope it’s cost effective enough to persuade American companies to embrace this technology.
There are a great deal of US/Canadian companies that have vast greenhouse operations already
@@AverageAtBestHDTB Well that's good to hear.
the existing entrenched companies just want to change nothing and increase profits. we'll have to start new companies and phase them out
@@izzymuse1957 Never understood why the concept of increasing profits offends so many people.
Things do change and they operate on the cutting edge of technology.
@@AverageAtBestHDTB the problem I have is with prioritizing profits at the expense of workers. I understand that expanding profits is necessary to maintain a business, but too many businesses have gone to extremes
Portugal needs this desperately! We're drying out!
Two big downsides of dutch agriculture is the amount of space that is taken up by farmers in the Netherlands, and the amount of energy that is needed for a greenhouse. The Netherlands is not a big country and more than half of the space is used for agriculture, while were having a housing crises at the same time, so thats not ideal. Also growing tomatos and fruit in the Netherlands is not climate proof, since it uses a huge amount of (dirty) electricity for temperature and lamps. I agree with the guy saying the Netherlands should develop more technology and export that to countrys with more favorable climates than actually growing and exporting the fruits and greens ourselves.
This is exactly what I am trying to setup in South Africa, but the 3rd world challenges are making it so difficult.
This is the future. Keep the good work! Maybe in 50 years in Bulgaria we will reach your level. :)
After watching the video, I can't help but sigh about the development of industrialization. The equipment in the video is unfamiliar to many people and difficult to see in life. They provide more convenient and fast possibilities for agriculture.
What is the nutrition details for crops produced in that manner? Were GMO seeds used? Is the freshness & nutritional content on par with crops grown in the agricultural fields?
Kindly include these important aspects as well in your videos as this is what ultimately matters for adoption of such technologies en mass
GMO crops are not allowed in the EU. So no GMO seeds.
This is super, super cool, and makes the future of agriculture sound promising! I am curious about how this technology will affect small farmers who depend on farming for their livelihoods, and people without access to job retraining and education who work in the agricultural industry as a means to survive. It'll be interesting to see how these two sides of the food production system can connect.
Nice to hear and listen indeed watching the video you uploaded for public!
I am Sherullah Raja from Pakistan and a Plant Pathologist seeking a suitable job in Netherlands related to Agriculture Plant Protection!
Its great, if only every government made efforts to teach their citizen to be self sufficient, even if they can only effort terrace gardening with this kind of technology, producing tons in a small space that can also help against global warming. It sounds amazing fighting against global food crisis.
Brilliant! But, can we mimic the biological complexity of a soil ecosystem, and thereby, the conditions that produce highly nutritious vegetables?
You could but most likely the cost would increase of the vegetable it is not susutainable to do greenhouse farming as we will have to just really on cowpeas,millet,sorghum,melons,curcubita,cassava,eggplants,and okra if they are water shortages 80% of global population is in poverty or is under average in income earnings this will only work to grow vegetable not staples.So just have to really on very drought tolerant crops like i explained or on aquadeuct systems like california.Ground water is depleted.
@@crazykeejan6981 Thanks! I teach low tech. rainwater harvesting and organic gardening, for free, here in Mexico. Ref. www.ciclicoahuila.com I believe that we are going to need a broad spectrum of methods to cope with soil degradation, pollinator loss and climate change.
could these facilities alone feed the population of the Netherlands?
Probably, but we wouldn't have a very varied diet
The Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter in the word (in terms of money)
Another reason the Dutch are so successful. Is that they are very serious, hardworking and focused. They don't mess around. All those ingredients are part of their success.
Nice to see hope that they can have impact and adapt to share this knowledge on the places that are more needed, and don't turn out as another tool to trap and make poor contries dependable on, and subject to overflow of european food that end up destroying local economies
The first step for the mutant moth plague of revenge. The moths will learn how to hide from the drones and then defend against them.
Could be. There are/was a kind of moth that changed their appearance due to the hugh airpollution we had once. An evolution from white to brown within a very short time. There is also a snakes in Australia, which mouths shrinked due to an selective pressure from a poisionous frog humans imported. I think evolution can happen sometimes very fast.
Thank you, Netherlands! ❤
Hey gus im from Brazil , I'm worried about food production as we have a lot of land for cattle and a lot of land for vegetables, because industries don't invest in this type of investment. I'm studying hydroponics and dream of opening a company where we can produce more food with less water. With that, being able to bring more quality and productivity to this sector.
1:49 That's Copenhagen, not The Netherlands
They are not in the US, and very close to each other anyway. So it doesn't really matter
Is that the Lille Langebro Bridge?
@@vargas0897 maybe for an American it doesn't, but the distance between the northernmost point of the Netherlands and Copenhagen is larger than the size of the Netherlands itself. I bet a German wouldn't like it either if it showed a city in Switzerland, no matter how close they are.
@@EctoMorpheus I know. My ironic tone got lost in writing. I was trying to be sarcastic, making fun of the fact that americans are so self-centered. Of course it matters, they are two separate countries
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It is true for the green houses. In the traditional farming in the Netherlands we have huge environmental problems.
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies. People could have their own green house. Look up underground green house.
Thank you for sharing a vision for a growing world. Will check this out and can I ask which town is this being setup? And its in Germany right? Might be great to visit the place someday
The Dutch are so damn smart.
yeah, they even killed every man, woman, and child on the Banda Islands to have a monopoly on nutmeg during the spice trade days. Fucking smart! I mean really messed up but smart to not leave any loose ends.
TatTvamAsi Stupid comment. You can’t blame a people for something their ancestors did.
Except windmills
I think lab-grown meat may be able to finally make it to the consumer market in the next generation. Albeit, it'll be priced expensively, like when vegan alternatives were introduced.
Gross. Even worse is the idiotic company that has you grow your own meat from your own cheek cells. NO!!!
Yeah lab made humans too.
Thank you for this video. The future of production in the Amazon could like this. Zero impact on the environment, one dream possible.
I'm live in the Amazon, Amazonas/Brazil
Allan Savory's institute is helping farmers reverse desertification. Restoring man-made deserts to arable land would also make a huge difference.
People like this need to start getting state funding and federal funding...
'state and federal' only applies to the USA. There are 195 countries.
they dont talk about meat tho... you know, #1 in water usage & impact on the environment.
Probably because they grow plants haha
You're like your last name. Dumas.
Love Netherlands from Haryana.
If you study sweet potato farming the vines of sweet potatoes are actually tilled-under -after the sweet potatoes grow…
but you could take those “vine tips” and root them ,and have a whole Nother crop: without half the effort… of the next year….!
Even in the seasonal areas the vines could be harvested and moved to another area of the world and you could grow another crop without growing them from seed etc. and this would save so much money!
Is this an organic pesticide/ herbicide free operation? Definitely curious of this type of food production... would be something we could maybe implemented in Canada as sustainable agriculture.
They have almost completely eliminated the use of pesticides: www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/ - one key benefit to a more controlled growth environment.
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies . Plant food forest
We talk so much of carbon , warming due to coal, fossil fuels, rising sea levels etc. Day in day out. Even cows , plastic straws are not spared.
But practically no word about the wasteful expend of energy in the human activity of cooking.. in the kitchen, in restaurants, bakeries etc.
Tremendous amount of gas, electricity, coal is consumed - energy wastage can be as much as 50% due to inefficient burners, wasteful cooking practices, badly designed ovens, utensils and so on. And then there is washing with huge amounts of water.
Nobody talks about taking a look at all this. All the raving mad activists rant about is plastic straws, cows, riding bycycles .
Atleast let's start talking about doing some studies on this huge polluting energy consuming human activity and how much energy can be saved by better utilisation of two precious resources - energy and water.
Instead of increasing outputs, let's figure out decreasing usage. It's called conservation.
Indian there is a religious church and it's one massive kitchen that is completely paid for by public donations and they sometimes feed up to 50k a day now that's conservation at its finest
You are somewhat right but i'd like to point out that in some countries we already have energy efficient stoves, dishwasher, washing machines etc. For example: my stove is eletric and it uses green electricity produced nearby. It heats fast and turns off automatically within 30 seconds if i forget to turn it off myself. My dishwasher only uses 6 liters at a time. And i use it once a week.
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This is great and I do hope other countries implement it, but I do hope they find ways to get rid of bugs without killing them.
I think it is smarter to wipe them out in the long run. Same with all predatory animals on earth.
How do I learn more about this? Do you have an internship program for lay people? I’d really like to try this in the US.
Amazing presentation! This is the way forward!
Quick question, correct me if am wrong, if this is all about sustainable farming then don't you think that using Greenhouses that are maintained with a number of LED lights and all the other "Tech" stuff consumes more energy? Comparing it with regular farming this consumes more energy, so would that make it sustainable?
I think the main idea behind it is efficiency, with those manageable conditions, the yields per square meter is way more compared with traditional way.
This is the tip of the ice burg, it will evolve and someone will make it better and improve. This is a great start. I have to give props where it is due and they are doing it, that is the most important step, taking action to gain experience to improve upon the knowledge learned and sharing it others can take it beyond just making money.
Problem is waste. Ive seen fields filled with irregular smaller veggies. Rotting. We waste way more than we need to not to mention the over eating and over waste epidemic in our society.
You can blame supermarkets for that. They have a contract with the farmer, take what they want but the farmer is not allowed to sell what they don’t want so it has to rot. Something I hope will happen to big food corporations when people start to realise this is ‘fixing’ the price of their food in the food corporations favour and creating monopolies. It is all corporate greed and they exploit the fact that people just want convenience.
I need one of these for my weed farm
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What do you think the future of food will look like?
Soylent green!!?
We must ask the question of the dependence to technology that we add to nature. Even if these solutions are provided to the world, it's pretty invasive to the biome because of so much data that you must collect from plants. And if the technology comes to disappear ? In absence of the techniques humans will not know how to grow plants anymore. I think that the best that we can do is bringing biodegradable receptors to collect data from plants and smart input AI systems (bringing water, minerals etc) that don't make nature (or at least in the smallest possible way) dependent to our treat (in the long generation process).
@@alexrubenstein7610 Hey, green tech is green tech!
Pensée Absurde our current agricultural system is already so far detached from nature that putting them in greenhouses holds no significant difference. Just like cows we breed for beef would not survive on their own in the wild, our domesticated plants have been “genetically engineered” to the point that it would be a disadvantage for them in the wild.
This type of efficient farming is exactly what the environment needs, so for example we can stop chopping down the Amazon in Brazil for more agriculture land, and instead just build greenhouses
High yield crops with much less nutrition, already well on the way. Yield means nothing when you dont get the same nutritional value from your food.
Everyone has the right to sell their products, but unless the arguments are correct and ethical. I am in the middle of a coffee plantation in Colombia and next to it is a cocoa plantation. In the middle of the Andes, water comes from above, below and from the rivers. Offering your technological solution is fine, but the water per cup of coffee indicator is inadequate. These crops respect biodiversity, provide work for many families, and although it will be difficult for us to keep up with technology, we offer more than instant satisfaction with this kind of indicators.
Netherlands & New Zealand are my favourite countries 😊😊
What an inspiring video. Hopefully they will find a better solution to the moth problem instead of crushing them 🥺
Food forest, it has variety, and if u provide habbit for natural predator, it help avoid any pest problems. Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. End farm subsidies
Food that is grown naturally is more healthy as in farm cultivation seedlings r developed with more in absence of sunlight it will not have nutrition as it was before.
No the leavels of nutrition and minerals are much higher here.
Plants can't handel the compleet spectrum of sun light.
And not every soil has the right amount of nutrition in it.
I love that phase, how many water to produce a cup of coffee