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Inspiring cases & customer stories

The changing world is a huge challenge for global agriculture. Our future health and well-being will largely depend on a successful global transition towards more efficient and sustainable production methods.

At Ridder we love to help farmers and growers achieve this goal. Read the stories of our inspiring customers and special partners here.

Quick and easy compliance with water purification requirements

Dalipa pepper nursery

Since 1 January 2018, Dutch greenhouse horticulture companies have been legally obliged to purify their residual water flows with certified water treatment systems. Paul Moerman of the Dalipa pepper nursery in Bleiswijk sees the importance of this general water purification requirement. “It’s a good thing for the image of the sector, although Dutch vegetable growers are already very environmentally conscious. I think that, certainly in comparison, we grow peppers in the most sustainable way possible.”

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Vietnam’s surging agro-economy marked by challenging opportunities

Jan Hoogewoning

As a result of the rapidly-growing middle class and the increasing demand for high-quality, local and safely-produced products, the Vietnamese agriculture and horticulture sector offers an attractive investment climate. Wage rises and a lack of knowledge however do present challenges. Ridder supports Vietnamese horticulture development with screening and automation solutions.

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“Carefree planning with 20 years of valuable crop data”

Sweet Lions

Dutch tomato grower Sweet Lions grows a large variety of specialty tomatoes on an acreage of 8 hectares. This cultivation is an extensive and labor-intensive crop with a variety of varieties, colors and processing procedures. Crop and quality manager Jack Jansen explains how the grower together with Ridder optimized the production and made processes transparent.

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"Partnerships of paramount importance for development of Chinese horticulture"

Sino-Dutch Horti Cooperation

Population growth is a global question, especially in countries in which densely populated areas and megacities are on the rise. Take China for example; a country where topics like food-security and the availability of fossil fuels are high on the agenda.
Will building Dutch greenhouses simply solve these issues, or is a different approach required?

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"The computer totally revolutionized irrigation"

Agricolas Oliveros

Mexican grower, Agrícola Oliveros, produces high quality specialty grape tomatoes mostly for the US market. It has 10 hectares of poly greenhouses and will soon expand by another five hectares. In 2014 it installed a Ridder HortiMaX CX500 climate control computer to automate the climate and irrigation systems. Owner Ernesto Oliveros says it revolutionized the irrigation system which is now based on the level of solar radiation.

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"Smart automation facilitates ambitious seed breeding process"

Axia Seeds

Founded in 2010 by Alois and Sander van Vliet, Axia Seeds, based in the Netherlands, has rapidly evolved into a mature seed-breeding company. According to the latest figures, 10% of Dutch tomatoes are now grown from seeds developed by Axia. Roy Verbeek, in charge of tomato production at two Axia sites, tells us how HortiMaX products - and especially our after-sales service - have made all the difference to their operation.

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"Ridder Productive motivates staff and ensures fair pay"

United Farms

With three locations totalling nearly 30ha of greenhouses and around 500 workers, keeping track of everyone’s activities is a job in itself. In 2014 Mexican tomato producer United Farms installed a new version of the Ridder Productive labour and production registration software.

This allows more efficient allocation of labour and ensures workers are correctly paid for the jobs they do.

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Southshore Greenhouses increases productivity by more than 30 percent with the help of Ridder Productive.

Southshore Greenhouses

Nishan Antaal (general manager) and Luis Sanchez (assistant grower) at Southshore Greenhouses, Kingsville Ontario, present their solution to tackle labour quality issues in this video.

Southshore had been searching for ways to increase employee productivity for years, until this forward-thinking operation finally found Ridder Productive.

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"Smart adaptive solutions to optimize Chinese solar greenhouses"

Wageningen University & Research

The experimental research facility of Wageningen University in The Netherlands were expanded with a genuine Chinese Solar Greenhouse.

The passive Chinese solar greenhouse relies on solar radiation for its heating and it provides a minimally controlled growing environment. With one million hectares, this typical greenhouse is widely applied in China, which gives all reason for serious research on improvements for this low-tech greenhouse system.

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"The crop is in
total control"

Vine Fresh Acres

As an answer to the growing demand of responsibly produced greenhouse grown cucumbers, Vine Fresh acres of Ruthven, Ontario, broke ground on a 12.5 acre greenhouse in August last year.

This 12.5 acre greenhouse currently is producing its first crop with high wire cucumbers that are sold under the Nature Fresh Farms brand. Head grower and operations manager Jake Neufeld of Vine Fresh Acres was so kind to tour us around their brand new operation.

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At Ridder, the drive to innovate is in our DNA. We are also committed to finding the best possible solution. The balanced combination of these two characteristics has enabled Ridder to evolve into the experienced market leader in technical solutions for the horticulture, intensive livestock and crop storage sectors. Today, Ridder has customers in more than 100 countries, who receive support from international offices and a global partner network.

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