The second day of GreenTech Americas is going on, and the show venue is as busy as it is expected from the second day of an international horti trade show. Organizers said indeed that the fair had 23% more visitors than last year.
The team of de Gier
Today, our ears have picked talks and discussions about labor, especially when it comes to farmworkers' salaries. The issue here is that most of them are getting paid in dollars, meaning that they can lose up to 20% of their salary for the currency exchange.
William Maestroni from Mabre
Yesterday, we also mentioned how water is the talk of the town, and today was kind of the same. Another issue plaguing the water space is the maintenance of greenhouses that results in water leaks.
Diego and Alessandro from the Italian company Simonetti
That is why the government is upping the collaboration with Dutch companies and local universities, to better educate growers and to find solutions that are suitable for their operations.
The team of Ina Plastics