The Netherlands is working to spread the world's most modern agricultural technology, especially by adding new technologies to greenhouse farming. By taking crop cultivation to the level of a planned industry, it is showing the world something astonishing.

The days of farming by tilling land, applying fertiliser and pesticide, and watching the weather seem to be ending, and the developed world is eager for this change. Having learned to farm without soil, they are now trying to control nature itself. They call this fully technology-based farming inside greenhouses the "plant factory", where crops grow like magic. Computers measure each crop's needs and control the supply of nutrients, artificial LED light and temperature, ensuring the highest yield.

At the forefront of this effort is Green Q, a Dutch agricultural technology support company. In greenhouses growing tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers and other vegetables, it uses LED lighting as well as drip irrigation, advanced biological pest control at controlled temperatures and much other technology.

The company has already sent its technology and equipment to 20 countries. It is only a matter of time, the report says, before a large part of the world joins this advance in agriculture, changing the essential inputs of farming.

Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.