In 1996 , Royal Van Zanten planted their first lily bulbs in New Zealand . After 4 years , Van Zanten NZ moved to a raw location on the South Island . The village of Rakaia in the Canterbury region to be exact . Their lily bulbs are grown by 2 contract grower with whom they have been wreak together for days . The processing , packing , preparedness , storage and exportation of the bulbs is done by their own team of Van Zanten Flowerbulbs NZ in Rakaia . With Oceania and Asia as the largest cut-rate sale market . The reason that Royal van Zanten has a location in New Zealand is to allow their customers bracing bulbs of a gamey lineament in the month of September to March . This in addition to the useable northerly hemisphere lily bulbs . Since 2015 , Cees Prins , General Manager , has been creditworthy for the intact operation in New Zealand .
The New Zealand squad consists of 8 permanent colleagues , a mathematical group of ( New Zealand ) colleagues who always return during the harvest home time of year and a group of principally “ backpacker ” . " The groovy thing about my job is to achieve our goals every season under clip pressure with such a interracial squad , " enunciate Cees . " This is my passion and also gives me a huge drive . " In plus to achieve the chief goal : supplying goodish bulb that are packed and stored in sentence , Cees also has a personal goal . That is : to give his knowledge to all employee . " Although New Zealand is a beautiful country to live in , the Netherlands is still my country . My goal is that by 2020 Jan Jaap Boon will replace me , here in New Zealand . Jan Jaap has been here in New Zealand with me for almost half a class , so he has plenty of time to learn . And give his experience in the sector I´m more than confident that the company is in honorable hands with him . New Zealand is a wondrous adventure , but it is authoritative that the youthful coevals takes over . greening is always authoritative for gaining fresh insight and the persistence of the company . "
In New Zealand it is coarse for a companionship to give something back to guild , this is really in the culture . Van Zanten have chosen to give something back to the local community of Rakaia . As a end they support the regional Lions Club . They donate a number of bulbs to the Lions Club every class . These bulb are sold by the member of the Lions Club and the money go back to the local community . We are talking about an amount of 25 to 30,000 NZD , that is about 15 to 20,000 euros . " I am therefore very majestic of the fact that Van Zanten Flowerbulbs NZ can give something back to the Rakaia biotic community . "
Apart from the opposite growing seasons between the Netherlands and New Zealand and the differences in civilisation , there are even more differences between the two locations .
For good example , the naked scales in the Netherlands are protected against frost with a fleece . Helicopters are used to protect the harvest here ( in New Zealand ) against rime . The eggbeater mix the inhuman air on the ground with the ardent melody from above the priming .
Also , the Holy Order of processing bulbs is unlike . In New Zealand the bulbs go through the following 5 steps :
In the Netherlands , however , the bulb are first cleaned , count and then – before take – the export bulbs are rinsed clean .
Within their troupe , they arise the planting stuff from naked scales finish . They harvest and swear out this planting material in May and June . Due to the favorable climatical condition in Rakaia , they can replant the planting material in their growing sphere in June and July . Through this “ wintertime planting ” they do not store the plant stock certificate in their cold stores for longsighted and they have a long growing season for the available craw .
In the coming years , Royal Van Zanten will certainly continue to grow lily bulbs in New Zealand . " We for certain have no plans to pass on , " says Cees . “ Last April all drying is replaced by new walls and new buff . Of course more things will change in the future and investment will have to be made for the environment and certainly also to bring through labor cost . But what just … ? That remains to be seen in the future tense ! "
For more information : Royal Van ZantenLavendelweg 15 , RijsenhoutP.O. Box 265 , 1430 AG AalsmeerThe NetherlandsTel : +31(0)297 38 70 00www.royalvanzanten.com
