Research

The Agricultural and Horticultural sector spends one-seventh of its turnover on research and development. These investments ultimately answer society’s demand for sustainable, safe cultivation with the results of sufficient, varied, healthy food.
These companies use subsidies primarily for strategic and innovative research and additional financial support encourages this type of research.

Plantum NL seeks research priorities by:

• Encouraging product development, particularly in resistance breeding and the renewal of the product range.
• Encouraging process development, especially for faster methods to identify varieties, crops,the expanding seed technology sector and professionalising the techniques to develop and produce organic seeds and young plants.
• Keeping subsidy plans available for the breeding companies and expanding them if possible.
• Focusing available subsidies on the use in the plant reproduction material sector.

Plantum NL will:

• develop expertise on subsidies that are important to the agricultural and horticultural industry and will make this knowledge available to its members.
• promote the granting of subsidies tailored to the agricultural and horticultural industry by means of active lobbying.
• bring members together with a common research question, coordinate joint research and mandate research on behalf of individual groups of members.
• support research projects that are important to its members.
• want to maintain subsidies for long-term fundamental research and to assure innovative strength.
• consult with the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries and Plant Research International on the priorities for fundamental and strategic research.