Today saw us complete the last day of the first week of this tour by visiting seed house, Rijk Zwaan. We were firstly given an introduction of how the seed treatment and production facility at de Lier had evolved by Jolanda van Kralingen of the publicity department.
Jolanda explains issues relating to seed production
During this time we learnt about the history of the company, and then we toured the seed treatment and production area. A highlight of the tour being a look in to the 15 metre high seed storage area.
Seed storage area
We then travelled to the Tomato Trial at Kwintsheul with crop co-ordinator, Marcel van Koppen. Here we were able to look at the various varietes of Tomato that Rijk Zwaan offer to the industry, as well as being able to taste test the various Tomatoes.
Of course no day is complete without us dressing up in the tyvek suits, so we donned the gear and then we were able to inspect the various tomato varieties growing in the trial glasshouse.
Rijk Zwaan tomato guru, Harry Augustijn was on hand to tell us about the trials and the various varieties.
The team and Harry Augustijn
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