Orchids exploitation's visit


Anco Pure "Vanda" company is located in Wateringen. There are 60 employees. They work on 6 hectares of glasshouses. We need more than 20 million euros to build this type of company. And it earned between 8 and 10 million euros per year.

As the name suggests, this company produces only a special variety of orchids: Vanda. It exist a lot of colors for this type of orchids like Rasberry cerise, Salmon, Retro red...
To have more and more orchids they buy bulbes in Thaïlande, that's how they have between 700 000 to 800 000 flowers now.
The speciality of this variety is that it doesn't need ground, it's lives free in this air. For growing, roots have to stay green. For that they put roots in water twice a week. The Vanda can survive without water between 4 to 5 days because roots stock water.

Pesticides are not allowed so they use bags whith insects. The growing conditions are specific: the atmosphere have to be hot and humid this is why they keep 26°C in the glasshouses, they spray regularly the flowers and they use artificial light. Roofs of the glasshouses move according to the light, the hour or the temperature by a computer system.

This company takes 99% of the European and 50% of the world market of Vanda orchids. They export 90% of their production for instance in luxury hostels.
The exportation is very organised and quick. Thanks to the time difference, they can deliver orchids to USA customers in less than 24h. For France it took 1 week because flower travel by trucks.

This company is really impressive because of the flowers's quantity. It's also funny that we can eat petals (no pesticide use) but it doesn't taste really good. People in Netherlands always riding bike even in glasshouses !



Color Rasberry Cerise

Color Retro Red

Visite d'une exploitation d'orchidée

Anco Pure "Vanda" est une entreprise situé à Wateringen. Elle compte 60 employés qui travaillent dans 6hectares de serres. Comme son nom l'indique, cette compagnie est spécialisé dans la production d'une unique variété d'orchidées: la Vanda.  Il faut 20 millions d'euros pour construire une entreprise de ce genre. L'Anco Pure "'Vanda" a un chiffre d'affaire entre 8 et 10 millions d'euros par an.
Il en existe de nombreuses couleurs comme Rasberry cerise, Salmon, Retro red... Pour produire plus d'orchidées, ils achètent des bulbes en Thaïlande. Grâce à cela, ils ont maintenant 700 000 à 800 000 fleurs.
 La spécificité de cette variété est qu'elle n'a pas besoin de terre et vit donc librement de l'air. Pour pousser les racines doivent être vertes. Ainsi elles sont baignées deux fois par semaine. La Vanda peut survivre 4 à 5 jours sans eau car les racines la stock. C'est pourquoi on garde une température de 26°C dans les serres, on aspergé régulièrement les fleurs de brume, et on utilise une lumière artificielle. Le toit des serres bougent en fonction de la lumière ou de la température grave à un système informatique.

Cette compagnie assure 99% du marché européenne et 50% du marché mondial dans la vente d'orchidées Venda. Ils exportent 90% de leur production, par exemple pour des hôtels de luxe. L'exportation est très organisée et rapide. Grave au décalage horaire ils peuvent délivrer leur orchidées aux clients américains en moins de 24 heures. Pour la France cela prend une semaine parce que les fleurs voyagent en camion.


Color Salmon
Cette entreprise est très impressionnante par la grande quantité de fleur. Il est marrant qu'on puisse manger les pétales des orchidées (notamment car ils n'utilisent pas de pesticides), mais ce n'est pas très bon. Les gens au pays bas même dans les serres !

Petit aperçu de la taille de l’exploitation

Romane, Salomé, Maylie, Élody et Jade
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