Business network Organicseeds.nl

Buizer Advice is the initiator and organizer of Organicseeds.nl, the business network of prominent Dutch nurseries and traders who bring high quality seeds and plants and seedlings for organic vegetable crops on the market. These include seed potatoes, vegetable seeds, herb seeds, flower seeds, bulbs of different varieties as well as propagating material for fruit trees, avenue trees, shrubs, ornamental plants and forest and hedging plants.
These companies have plant varieties in their programme that are successful in the organic market. They are also continuously working on new varieties which, as regards taste and quality, comply with consumer requirements and which do well under organic cultivation circumstances. With this, Dutch growers are anticipating market developments both within and outside of Europe.

Objectives of Organicseeds.nl

Objective 1: Optimum harmony between the supply and demand of high-quality organic propagating material.

Objective 2: a constant and clear picture of the demand for organic propagating material and the market-oriented cultivation and multiplication of organic and biodynamic propagating material of Dutch nurseries and traders for (potential) organic growers and traders from both home and abroad.











News about Organicseeds.nl


Survey

Local varieties; the right variety - location - grower concept
Bertus Buizer & Kitty de Jager
Workshop at BioVak 2012

Breeding of crops, among other things led to increased production, more uniformity, mechanisation and “global” varieties with outstanding performance. At the same time we face a loss of biodiversity, increased pressure on the environment and higher levels of pests and diseases in our crops.

This leads to great opportunities for breeders to breed “local” next to their “global” varieties. Varieties developed for one specific region. These will be better adapted to local conditions (soil, climate, etc.), better to grow in balance with their environment and cause thereby less pollution. A “local” variety, produced in her own region by organic growers, gives the region its own face. A “local” variety is also attractive to local consumers and strengthens the connections within the region.

From concept to reality
The development of “local” varieties raises some important questions:
• How do we fill in this beautiful picture and make it reality?
• How can this be achieved efficiently and with limited resources?
• How can we combine organic farming experience, new breeding techniques and knowledge, genetic resources and consumer's wishes?
• How can a grower determine which variety suits best in his situation?
• How can a breeder obtain data about his varieties under many varying conditions in different areas?

About all this, Kitty de Jager and Bertus Buizer would like to exchange ideas with you! First this can be done by completing a survey, which is especially made for this. The survey is available at www.organicseeds.nl/talen/en/survey.html where it can be filled in online and sent to us. This can be done in 10 minutes of your time.

Secondly, you can give your opinion during a workshop, in which also the results of the survey will be presented anonymously. This workshop will be given the next BioVak on the 18th and 19th of January 2012 in the IJsselhallen at Zwolle in the framework of the Breeding Square Organicseeds.nl.

The time schedule of the workshops is:
Wednesday 18th January 2012:
15.30 hours - 16.00 hours Dutch
16.30 hours - 17.00 hours English

Thursday 19th January 2012:
19.00 hours - 19.30 hours Dutch
19.45 hours - 20.15 hours English

Your input and discussion points are important to us! We make it a new concept and then we would like to know which of you will join our first (pilot) project!

Thanks for your input!

Kind regards,
Bertus Buizer and Kitty de Jager

Click here for the survey.







































Large and convenient Breeding Square at BioVak 2011

On an attractive and convenient Breeding Square with a large number of companies, many Dutch nurseries and traders in the plant sector have shown their varieties, which are of great importance to the national and international organic market.
Participants of the Breeding Square Organicseeds.nl offered high-quality propagating material to visitors from home and abroad. They work always to new varieties, which with regard to taste and quality meet the demands of modern consumers within and outside Europe and which comply well with organic growing conditions.

The Dutch nurseries and traders who participate also in the network of prominent Dutch nurseries and traders produce organic propagating material including the following crops:

Vegetables (covered and open cultivation): Leaf vegetables, tomatoes, sweet peppers, carrots, beetroots, cabbage crops, cucumbers, pumpkins
Arable crops: potatoes, sowing onions, set onions, shallots, garlic, cereals, grasses.
Medicinal herbs.
Fodder crops.
Green manuring crops.
Fruits: Apples, pears.
Soft fruit.
Parkland trees and avenue trees.
Shrubs.
Ornamental plants: Tulip bulbs, flowers, garden plants.

































In 2010 we had also a Breeding Square at BioVak.See the flyer for the
Breeding Square at BioVak 2010

There is also a flyer in German, French, Spanish and Italian:
Zucht-Platz auf den BioVak 2010
Place de l'amélioration au BioVak 2010
Plaza de ennoblecimiento en BioVak 2010
Piazza della raffinazione al BioVak 2010


























































Organicseeds.nl and BioVak'10 in Organics Special 2009 of AgroPress






































BioFach 2009

From 19-22 February 2009 the World Organic Trade Fair BioFach has taken place in Nuremberg (Germany). Organicseeds.nl represented the participating Dutch nurseries and traders. They can provide high-quality propagating material for a large number of varieties for the biological field and horticultural crops and nursery products for organic fruit, avenue or park trees and ornamental plants.

Stand of Organicseeds.nl at BioFach in Nürnberg (Germany), February 19-22, 2009

















 

BioVak 2009

On Wednesday, January 21 and Thursday, January 22 the BioVak 2009 has taken place in the IJsselhallen at Zwolle (Netherlands) with over 150 exhibitors. This leading trade fair for organic agriculture, nature, food quality and distribution has been opened by Her Royal Highness, Princess Margriet. There were more than 5.000 visitors, mainly farmers and cattle breeders. On the BioVak there was also a Breeding Square, where 16 Dutch nurseries and traders provided information about their varieties for organic crops. The visitors of the Breeding Square could also participate in tastings. The Breeding Square and tastings had been organized by Buizer Advies in the context of Organicseeds.nl. So did the workshop on "New varieties for new concepts”, which took place in addition to the Breeding Square and attracted a great deal of attention.

Her Royal Highness, Princess Margriet, at the tastings on the Breeding Square