Prekmurje , a region in the Frederick North - east of Slovenia , will become the location of the country ’s largest glasshouse vegetable production complex , thanks to an estimated € 80 million investing . The project , name GreenGardens , plans to work up greenhouses on a 22 - hectare plot , which will start the use of renewable energy . This secret plan can hold 15 hectares of greenhouses , which is corresponding to the area of all existing and useable greenhouses in Slovenia . 5 hectares will be used for a high - tech lettuce glasshouse , and another 10 hectare are available for term of a contract .
The zona will be get in phase , with the finish of start product in 2026 , fit in to Matej Bandelj and Gregor Počivavšek , who are behind the labor and contrive to start their own dinero facility , GreenGardens , here . With background in actual demesne developing and IT husbandry , they are using their expertise to delve further into the greenhouse manufacture . They are hold by Boštjan Bandelj , one of the moneyed Slovenian citizens and the owner of Belektron , a specialized C emissions valuation account trading company , who bought the land through the company Skrinja BB at an vendue in August last year . The three of them will together with own the fellowship that will manage the GreenGardens Dobrovnik zone .
They will first coif the entire zone , equipping it with in high spirits - tech equipment , and then establish an main caller for the production of salad plants , which will also be the renter of the greenhouses .
double the ego - enough in saladsMatej and Gregor explained last month that mellow - tech sustainable yield could increase Slovenia ’s self - sufficiency in sealed types of vegetable product by multiple of 10 % . Official statistics estimated a ego - sufficiency rate for lettuce of 25 % until 2023 , which could accomplish 53 % with their production of teen leafage lettuce .
Gregor explain that the nursery will produce year - rhythm and will be fully automatize and hands - gratis , for which they opt to mold with Dutch experts . " Due to finish in a check surround , the crops will be able-bodied to thrive even outside the natural growing season , and they will be vouch optimum status in footing of heat , moisture , light , and nutrient , " tell Matej .
The project is designed to maximize the use of renewable vitality source the placement whirl . Matej add together , " We will achieve this through the joint usage of geothermal and solar energy , a perpetual temperature of crushed groundwater , and solvent of modern and technologically forward-looking greenhouse . "
The municipality where the project will be realize is on the border with Hungary and is already home to the greenhouse of orchid producer OceanOrchids . They welcomed the investment and the jobs it will make , estimated at 100 to 150 .
For more selective information : Green Gardens Dobrovnikhttps://www.greengardensdobrovnik.eu/
© FloralDaily.com/Arlette Sijmonsma
