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European market entry for Cambodian agrifood products
Oct 2024HollandDoor Cooperative U.A. is engaged with the Cambodia Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development CAPRED . Teaming up with ProFound - Advisers In...
Thailand's journey toward the future of farming
Sep 2024With aspirations to become a key global food supplier, Thailand is actively working to foster innovation in its agricultural sector. The country is focusing on enhancing...
First pilot sites for drainage water recycling established...
Sep 2024The arrival of two VitaLite systems from the Ridder Group and water tanks from Royal Brinkman mark the start of a new phase in the project"Improving water availability and...
Korean strawberry farmers visit the Dutch strawberry sector
Aug 2024South-Korean based company Inkium Co. Ltd. offers a wide range of knowledge services to strengthen human resource capacity of companies and organizations. Supported by the...
Korean horticulture students in the Netherlands for an...
Jul 2024After successful editions in 2022 and 2023 , the Chonnam National University (CNU) in South Korea asked HollandDoor again to make a training program for her students. This...
Scoping mission to Vietnam on TVET and aquaculture
Jun 2024HollandDoor recently conducted a scoping mission to Vietnam on technical and vocational education (TVET) for aquaculture, where it explored educational cooperation...
Export development of Cambodian agrifood products
May 2024HollandDoor has embarked on an exciting assignment for the Cambodia Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development CAPRED . As the lead implementer, HollandDoor is...
Interesting study trip on dairy robotics and sensor...
Apr 2024HollandDoor organizes various study trips focusing on fodder production, dairy farming, and dairy processing. For dairy farming, we emphasize feeding, genetics, health,...
A comprehensive and insightful study week for Indonesian...
Mar 2024The study week in March 2024 as part of Nuffic 's Orange Knowledge Program, TMT+, was comprehensive and insightful, according to feedback received from eight master trainers...
Sustainable poultry sector in Sri-Lanka
Feb 2024For the past two years, Lisanne Oskam of HollandDoor has had the privilege of supervising the RVO Project "Sustainable Poultry Sector" in Sri Lanka, in partnership with...
Driving progress in Sri Lanka's dairy sector
Jan 2024For some time now, HollandDoor has been involved in the development of the online Dairy Training Center (DTC) in Sri Lanka. This initiative was set up by the Embassy of the...
Promoting CowSignals® at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Haryana,...
Jan 2024In January 2024, Ad Merks from HollandDoor attended the professional Dairy & Agri Expo in Kurukshetra, Haryana, organized by the Dairy Farmer Association (DFA). This yearly...
Update on sustainable aquaculture and agribusiness...
Jan 2024In September 2023 we started a new project in Indonesia in sustainable aquaculture and agribusiness, in collaboration with our Indonesian partners BBPPMPV Cianjur and IPB...
New project launched in Indonesia
Dec 2023You may be aware of our longstanding involvement in revitalizing vocational education and training in Indonesia for a number of years. Though it has been almost a year since...
Cedric van Oene, our first affiliated partner
Dec 2023To expand HollandDoor’s reach in specific regions or networks, we have decided to start working with affiliated partners. An affiliated partner is a professional who lives...
Korean farmers and consultants inspired by Dutch...
Nov 2023South Korean-based company Inkium Co. Ltd. , known for its extensive range of knowledge services, plays an important role in enhancing the human resource capacity of...
Insect farming in agriculture: a pathway to sustainable...
Sep 2023In the beginning of 2023 we introduced a new member, Marian Peters, who is one of the most experienced insect farming expert in the Netherlands. In this article, Marian...
Agrofood tour in Indonesia & Jordan
Aug 2023We mainly share our experiences about our training courses and study tours. In the summer of 2023, however, we spent our time also in a different way. Together with several...
28 Korean horticulture students in the Netherlands for...
Aug 2023After a successful edition in 2022 , the Chonnam National University (CNU) in South Korea asked HollandDoor to organize another training event. This year, they came with 20...
Dairy study tour DFA Haryana to the Netherlands
Jul 2023In July 2023, members of the Dairy Farmers Association (DFA) of Haryana, India, mainly young farmers, visited the Netherlands. The aim of the study tour was to compare Dutch...
Introducing GoatSignals in India
Jun 2023Almost three years ago, HollandDoor started to conduct CowSignals® training activities in India. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first sessions were held online, but for...
Three years after our training program in Indonesia ended,...
May 2023Indonesia is an agricultural country where most of the people work as farmers. The quality of human resources (HR) in agriculture can be strengthened through education at...
Touched by Prabath, a Sri Lankan dairy farmer
May 2023During a visit to Sri Lanka for the kick-off of a poultry project, Lisanne Oskam also visited a farmer who completed the online RVO Dairy project on sustainable feed and...
With CowSignals® at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Punjab
Feb 2023In early February 2023, HollandDoor was at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Ludhiana, organized by the Progressive Dairy Farmers Association (PDFA) from Punjab. The Dairy & Agri...
Linking agricultural cooperatives and the market in Cambodia
Nov 2022Linking agricultural cooperatives with the private sector and the market is high on the agenda of the Cambodian government. In November 2022, HollandDoor organized and...
Climate-proof and circular dairy farming in India
Oct 2022In the “Climate-proof and circular dairy farming in India” project, Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (VHL) joined forces with HollandDoor to investigate...
Succesful demos of CowSignals® training in three Indian...
Oct 2022Ocotober 2022, HollandDoor started giving on-site (live demo) CowSignals® training sessions in India. After two years of online training during the K2K (knowledge to...
Indian greenhouse farming - which regios to focus?
Oct 2022On request of the Agricultural Department of the Dutch Embassy in New Delhi, HollandDoor developed an infographic focusing on greenhouse horticultural development trends in...
Webinars on horticulture in China
Oct 2022To equip teachers at these vocational schools with the latest insights in modern and sustainable technologies in horticulture, it is important to update them regularly. That...
Korean CNU students visit Dutch greenhouse horticulture...
Oct 2022Chonnam National University (CNU) from South Korea asked HollandDoor to organize a 1-month tailor-made training event in the Netherlands for a group of 19 horticultural...
Strong vocational education drives growth
Aug 2022Indonesian delegation on study tour to learn from the Dutch (vocational) education system in the agro-sector. For many years, Indonesia has attached great importance to...
Setting up agri-food industrial parks in Cambodia
Jun 2022The Cambodian government, which intends to set up agri-food industrial parks in the country, decided to travel to the Netherlands to familiarize itself with different...
Indonesia network event
Jun 2022In June 2022, a large delegation of policymakers from the Ministry of Education In Indonesia, officials from the future vocational Centre of Excellence, and education...
Revitalizing vocational education in Indonesia: meeting...
Feb 2022Our HollandDoor newsletters have brought you regular updates on programs that aim to strengthen TVET education in Indonesia. Thanks to our strong partnerships with valuable...
Successful online training on dairy farming in India
Nov 2021Last year HollandDoor proved that the CowSignals® platform is an effective method for training of Indian dairy professionals online on how to improve health and milk...
Value chain and agri-business development training in Iraq
Oct 2021HollandDoor and ZOA are jointly implementing a Nuffic -funded program called “Enhancing the knowledge and skills of extension workers and farmers in efficient irrigation and...
Improving food safety and water efficient production for...
Oct 2021After a long period of only being able to hold courses online due to COVID-19, in the first week of October 2021, HollandDoor trainers were finally able to conduct a...
First online, practical dairy training in Sri Lanka is a...
Sep 2021Nearly 120 dairy farmers, farm managers, extension officers and other professionals in the fast-developing dairy sector in Sri Lanka have successfully completed a training...
Shanghai teachers respond enthusiastically to webinars
Jul 2021Teachers at the Shanghai Vocational School in China are responsible for educating their students based on the latest insights of modern and sustainable horticultural...
Indonesia: Win-win partnerships for vocational schools and...
Jun 2021Modern value chains are replacing traditional production supply chains in the agro-food sector. Increasingly, the focus is shifting towards sustainability, food safety,...
Indonesia: Strengthen students' entrepreneurial skills
May 2021The agrofood sector is evolving fast with new technologies and innovations, while society’s food habits, preferences and requirements are changing on a global and local...
Sri Lanka: Sustainable feed and waste management for the...
May 2021In 2020, HollandDoor started the ‘Sustainable feed & waste management in the dairy sector’ course in Sri Lanka on behalf of The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO:...
Sri Lanka and India: Improve your dairy business
May 2021To strengthen the dairy sector, HollandDoor experts conducted lively online workshops in 2020 for dairy advisors and other professionals in Sri Lanka and India. We used a...
Vietnam farmers ready for water recycling technology
Feb 2021After wrapping up a feasibility study with Fresh Studio and Ridder Growing Solutions , HollandDoor’s Geerten Van der Lugt and Jos Leeters concluded that the greenhouse...
India training-of-trainers project reaches new milestone...
Feb 2021The latest update of our three-year India project to realize market-driven greenhouse vegetable production came in July 2020. This project started in 2018 in collaboration...
Successful start of the CowSignals® online trainings in...
Oct 2020In India last month, HollandDoor started the first online CowSignals® advisor trainings. We organized these trainings online together with the Dutch Embassy in Delhi and the...
Effect of covid-19 pandemic: how do we move forward?
Jul 2020With the many trainings and programs we are conducting internationally, the outbreak of Covid19 has obviously created many challenges for the implementation of our...
HollandDoor starts CowSignals training for dairy...
Jun 2020As part of the K2K (knowledge to knowledge) program in India, HollandDoor, together with the Dutch Embassy and RVO, is planning an (online) CowSignals training. Depending on...
Update on India Training of Trainer project
Jun 2020In earlier newsletters and via our website, we’ve informed you multiple times about the progress in our 3-year India project that HollandDoor started in 2018 in...
Kick-off of TVET revitalization program in Indonesia
Feb 2020In February 2020 the next step in the TVET (Technical Vocational Education and Training) revitalization program in Indonesia was kicked-off. After two years of piloting, the...
HollandDoor in India also active in the dairy sector
Feb 2020The Dutch RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) has asked HollandDoor to organize four trainings on dairy farming in four different states in India.This is a so-called K2K...
TMT sustainable feed & waste management in the dairy...
Jan 2020At the beginning of 2020, HollandDoor started implementing training courses in Sri Lanka in the field of sustainable feed and waste management with the focus on dairy....
Market opportunities for Dutch greenhouse industry in India
Dec 2019“Analyze the market potential for Dutch vegetable greenhouse technology, services and knowhow”: that was the request from HollandDoor to Akash Pawar, an Indian student,...
Effective trainings in integrated pest management in Sri...
Dec 2019For the second year in a row, HollandDoor was project manager, on behalf of Lentiz Cursus and Consult, for Integrated pest management trainings for protected and open field...
Postharvest and tissue culture in the spotlights during...
Nov 2019The Embassy of the Netherlands in Colombo and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) have collaborated to conduct a study visit to the Netherlands late November 2019 with...
Indian delegation from Madhya Pradesh interested in Dutch...
Nov 2019For many years already, HollandDoor has maintained a good relationship with Jains Irrigation from India, one of the global market leaders in irrigation equipment. In...
India ToT program starts deliver seminars and trainings on...
Oct 2019In 2018 HollandDoor started a three-year project in India in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables in Baramati (see Launch protected cultivation...
Japanese strawberry sector keeps visiting Dutch colleagues
Oct 2019Greenbridge International managed by Mr. Yu Mizuki supports Japanese companies and individuals who want to do business with Europe and especially The Netherlands. In 2018,...
Bangladesh government continues to study Dutch agribusiness
Oct 2019In 2018, HollandDoor organized at the request of Kernel International , based in Dhaka Bangladesh, three short tailor-made study tours for the Ministry of Agriculture of...
Next steps in the development of the tomato area in...
Sep 2019In May eight stakeholders (farmer, traders, government employees, and consultants) related to the Narayangaon APMC market visited the Netherlands (read more). During this...
Chinese nursery sector shows continuous interest in the...
Aug 2019On the occasion of Plantarium , August 2019, a Chinese delegation under the leadership of Yang Kaiyun visited the Netherlands, Germany and Italy for a tree nursery business...
Chinese tree nursery sector ready for change
Jul 2019In June 2019, for the fifth year in a row, a Chinese tree nursery delegation visited the Netherlands under the leadership of Mr. Wang Jianming for a two-week study tour. The...
Value chain exposure visit of tomato stakeholders from the...
Jun 2019In the week of May 27, various stakeholders of the tomato supply chain in the Narayangaon region in Maharastrha, India visited the Netherlands for an intensive study tour....
Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture continues to study...
May 2019In 2018, HollandDoor organized three day-long tailor-made study tours for the Ministry of Agriculture of Bangladesh on themes such as “Mechanized Cropping”; “Vegetable...
Third training for staff of AgroTie and AgroStar
May 2019AgroTie is a training and service center located near Bangalore, India. It is a private sector initiative, with the mission to strengthen the economical perspective of...
Vietnamese farmers focus on climate smart horticulture
Apr 2019A group of six farmers from southern Vietnam visited the Netherlands and conducted a full-week study tour on the theme ‘climate smart horticulture’. Business Support...
Strengthening vocational education in Indonesia
Apr 2019In Indonesia, various projects have been started to strengthen education, to ensure better coordination between education and the professional field and to introduce new...
Working towards modern horticultural practices in India
Apr 2019In 2018 HollandDoor started a 3-year project in India in collaboration with the Center of Excellence (see Launch protected cultivation vegetable project ) . The main...
Integrated pest management training in Sri Lanka
Mar 2019On behalf of Lentiz , HollandDoor organized, for the second year, a series of workshops on Integrated Pest Management in Sri Lanka. The five workshops are organized by the...
Greenbridge and HollandDoor intensify co-operation to...
Dec 2018Greenbridge International supports Japanese companies and individuals who want to do business with Europe, especially the Netherlands. HollandDoor and Greenbridge work...
AgroTie, a new center of horticultural expertise in...
Dec 2018After a long period of preparation, exchange of ideas, exploring the needs of the market, recruiting staff, visits to the Netherlands, and planning by a board of experts,...
Successful first Sino-Dutch tree nursery training
Dec 2018Since 2015 we organized every year a two-week business tour for Chinese tree nursery companies. The initiator on the Chinese side is Mr. Wang Jianming, the owner of Handan...
Training-of-Trainer project successfully started at CoE...
Nov 2018In 2017, the Baramati Agricultural Development Trust, together with the Indian government, invested in a highly innovative Centre of Excellence (CoE) for vegetables, the...
South Korean growers receive intensive tour and training...
Oct 2018Aeres received a large group of South Korean strawberry and tomato growers as well as dairy farmers for a tailor-made tour and training program. Agriprogress was...
Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture visits the Netherlands
Jun 2018In February, May and June HollandDoor was requested by Kernel International to organize a one day tailor-made study tour for three high-ranked delegations from various...
Chinese tree nursery tour 2018
Jun 2018For the fourth year in succession we organized a 2 week business tour for Chinese tree nursery companies. Initiator on the Chinese side is the owner of Handan city...
HollandDoor launches a new three-year horticultural...
Jun 2018During the largest Dutch trade mission ever organized to India, from 22-25 May 2018, Mrs Carola Schouten ( Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the...
Indian floriculture learns from Dutch developments
May 2018In April 2018 a group of 12 persons from Centre of Excellence Talegaon Flower Staff and Saveer company , both from India, followed a course at the World Horti Centre in the...
Study tour for 40 Indian farmers from Madhya Pradesh
Apr 2018From 18 to 22 April 2018 a group of 40 Indian farmers from the state of Madhya Pradesh (central India) visited the Netherlands for a diverse program of farm visits. The...
Support Yezin Agricultural University in Myanmar with...
Feb 2018With financial support from Nuffic , the Dutch organization for internationalization in education, HollandDoor supported Yezin Agricultural University (YAU) in Myanmar to...
HollandDoor meets Indian Agro Industry at the Krushik 2018
Jan 2018HollandDoor participated from 19-22 January 2018 for the second time at the Krushik Expo organized by the Agricultural Development Trust and KVK Baramati . More than 200,000...
Chinese students submerged in Dutch horticultural sector...
Jan 201842 Chinese students have visited the Netherlands for one month from 20 November onwards, in order to get acquainted with all the aspects of the Dutch horticultural sector....
Giving a boost to IHITC
Dec 2017The International Horticulture Innovation and Training Center (IHITC) located in Jaipur, is a governmental organization with the aim to collect and disseminate knowledge in...
Impressive opening of Center of Excellence, Baramati
Nov 2017On 2 November 2017, the Maharashtra Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables, built at KVK, Baramati, was officially opened by a group of high-ranking Indian and Dutch...
Feeding Indian expanding cities
Oct 2017Every year in October, the Dutch consulate in Mumbai organizes the “Holland meets Mumbai” event. The population of India is growing, whereas the available agricultural land...
Chinese Tree nursery Business Tour in June 2017
Jun 2017The Chinese tree nursery sector is rapidly changing. Labor costs are rising and the number of large governmental projects is decreasing. This leads to increased interests...
AgroTie will boost the Horticultural sector in Karnataka
May 2017AgroTie, which is a private sector initiative, has the mission to strengthen the economical perspective of farmers and rural communities in Karnataka. Through knowledge,...
Potential Business Partners for Cadila Pharmaceuticals
Apr 2017Cadila Pharmaceuticals is a Gujarat based company, which does business in the pharmaceutical and the agricultural sector. A trip to the Netherlands brought the Chairman of...
Vietnamese trainees eager to learn more about protected...
Apr 2017With financial support from EP-Nuffic, an organisation which supports the international cooperation of education, HollandDoor successfully provided a 2-week-training course...
Local government Nagasaka, Japan, would like to modernize...
Feb 2017For years HollandDoor has had a very good relationship with Inochio Group Japan ( www.inochio.co.jp ). They are an important partner in the Japanese horticulture sector. On...
Krushik2017 India Fair: HollandDoor organizes...
Jan 2017Maharashtra Centre of Excellence Vegetables Since the autumn of 2016 the development and building of the "Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetable Production" has been in...
Technical training for grape growers from Sangli, India
Jan 2017Sangli, a region in the state of Maharashtra in India, is an area where the grape culture is extremely important. Only second after the Nashik region, Sangli has the largest...
Six-week training for CoE’s staff.
Nov 2016Maharashtra Centre of Excellence Vegetables Since the autumn of 2016 the development and building of the "Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetable Production" has been in...
Chinese tree nursery companies visit Europe for a second...
Oct 2016In the summer of 2015 a study tour was successfully organised by HollandDoor. This tour was arranged for a group of 16 top entrepreneurs from the Chinese tree nursery. The...
India Training Group at Demokwekerij Westland
Sep 2016The staff of an Indian company have undergone a super intensive course during the summer. Some took a 1-month-training others even took a 2-month-training. These courses...
Delegation of Maharashtra government, chaired by Mr....
Jul 2016Sharad Pawar Mr Sharad Pawar is member of the India parliament and president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian...
Asia interested in Dutch greenhouse and installation...
Apr 2016Asian countries are investing in their agricultural sector and intend to develop their greenhouse horticultural sector. GPI Consultancy , who is active in the ICT offshore...
UTZ country representatives trigger their mindsets by...
Jan 2016UTZ ( www.utz.org ), who is known for its ongoing efforts to make this world more sustainable, requested HollandDoor to organize an inspiring visit to a high-tech Dutch...
Market Access training for 56 participants from 14 countries
Jan 2016Every year, the Centre for Development Innovation, part of Wageningen UR (CDI-WUR) organizes the course “Market access for sustainable development’’, which targets...
Chinese researchers informed on breeding of vegetables
Jan 2016In January a group of researchers from China participated in an intensive training program in the Netherlands in the field of breeding, propagation and the cultivation of...
Vietnamese informed on trends and best practices in...
Dec 2015In May 2015, HollandDoor organized on request of the Center for High-Tech Application and Development in Agriculture (HTES) in Hanoi, Vietnam, a tailor-made training on...
Pre-conference Tour GMCC 2015
Nov 2015On Tuesday 17th November HollandDoor organized on behalf of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University the pre-conference tour of the 7th...
Potential new partner of DS Group visits India
Oct 2015Early 2015, Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group / www.dsgroup.com ) from India approached HollandDoor to assist in their search for a Dutch joint-business development...
Chinese teachers learn about Food Safety and Quality Control
Aug 2015In August, HollandDoor organized on request of Kenlog , a few training days about food safety and quality control in The Netherlands. The Chinese delegation existed of four...
DS Group India searches Dutch joint-business partner to...
Aug 2015Early 2015, Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group / www.dsgroup.com ) from India approached HollandDoor to assist in their search for a Dutch joint-business development...
Chinese tree nursery business visit to Europe
Jul 2015During the past 10 years the tree nursery sector in China has increased rapidly, as well in number as in size of the companies. The top entrepreneurs of the Chinese tree...
Export promotion course for Vietnamese fruit and...
May 2015HollandDoor offered a 3-days tailor-made course in the Netherlands in May 2015 for 6 Vietnamese producers and exporters of fresh fruits and vegetables on exporting to...
New Hope Liuhe China delegation visits pork companies
Nov 2014Hypor (Hendrix Genetics) requested HollandDoor to organize a study tour on Friday 21 November for a Chinese management delegation of New Hope Liuhe. The managers of New Hope...
40 trainees from 15 countries visit SION and GreenQ
Nov 2014HollandDoor organized at 18 November an excursion as part of course Market Access for Sustainable Development. This course for mid-career professionals is yearly organized...
Training for students of the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Oct 2014Ho llandDoor facilitated 2 trainings during summer 2014 for teachers of Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and Henan Agricultural University . Both trainings were 4...
Training for researchers from Henan Agricultural...
Aug 2014Between 3 and 17 August 2014, HollandDoor provided four days of training to a group of nine researchers from the Technical College of Henan Agricultural University (HAU) in...
Shandong Province Agro delegation visits the Netherlands
Aug 2014CECEC Rotterdam requested HollandDoor to organize a tailor-made excursion on Thursday 9 October for a Chinese agro delegation from Shandong Province. The delegation...
Training for teachers from the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Jul 2014From 14 July until 3 August 2014, HollandDoor provided four days of training to a group of nine Business Management teachers from the Vocational and Technical College of...
IMEC / High Tech Campus Eindhoven studies sensor usage in...
Apr 2014IMEC is a leading research institute in nanoelectronics. IMEC has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, India and Japan and has over 2080 employees. Click...
Japan National Research Project visits the Netherlands
Jan 2014On 14 January HollandDoor organized a short tour for a Japanese National Research Project. A group of academic researchers visited the Netherlands to experience the current...
Training for teachers from the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Sep 2013In cooperation with the EUC association from Grootebroek, a province of Noord-Holland ( www.foundationeuc.nl ), HollandDoor has organized a three-week training for 14...
Two-week training for ADT-KVK, in Baramati, India
Sep 2013Together with Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences , HollandDoor organized a two week training on Horticultural Value Chain Development for KVK Baramati ,...
Van Hall Larenstein and HollandDoor train Indian...
May 2013The population in India is growing rapidly, causing an increasing demand for products such as cereals, rice, chocolate, flowers, vegetables and fruit. Meeting this demand...
European market entry for Cambodian agrifood products
Oct 2024HollandDoor Cooperative U.A. is engaged with the Cambodia Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development CAPRED . Teaming up with ProFound - Advisers In...
Thailand's journey toward the future of farming
Sep 2024With aspirations to become a key global food supplier, Thailand is actively working to foster innovation in its agricultural sector. The country is focusing on enhancing...
First pilot sites for drainage water recycling established...
Sep 2024The arrival of two VitaLite systems from the Ridder Group and water tanks from Royal Brinkman mark the start of a new phase in the project"Improving water availability and...
Korean strawberry farmers visit the Dutch strawberry sector
Aug 2024South-Korean based company Inkium Co. Ltd. offers a wide range of knowledge services to strengthen human resource capacity of companies and organizations. Supported by the...
Korean horticulture students in the Netherlands for an...
Jul 2024After successful editions in 2022 and 2023 , the Chonnam National University (CNU) in South Korea asked HollandDoor again to make a training program for her students. This...
Scoping mission to Vietnam on TVET and aquaculture
Jun 2024HollandDoor recently conducted a scoping mission to Vietnam on technical and vocational education (TVET) for aquaculture, where it explored educational cooperation...
Export development of Cambodian agrifood products
May 2024HollandDoor has embarked on an exciting assignment for the Cambodia Australia Partnership for Resilient Economic Development CAPRED . As the lead implementer, HollandDoor is...
Interesting study trip on dairy robotics and sensor...
Apr 2024HollandDoor organizes various study trips focusing on fodder production, dairy farming, and dairy processing. For dairy farming, we emphasize feeding, genetics, health,...
A comprehensive and insightful study week for Indonesian...
Mar 2024The study week in March 2024 as part of Nuffic 's Orange Knowledge Program, TMT+, was comprehensive and insightful, according to feedback received from eight master trainers...
Sustainable poultry sector in Sri-Lanka
Feb 2024For the past two years, Lisanne Oskam of HollandDoor has had the privilege of supervising the RVO Project "Sustainable Poultry Sector" in Sri Lanka, in partnership with...
Driving progress in Sri Lanka's dairy sector
Jan 2024For some time now, HollandDoor has been involved in the development of the online Dairy Training Center (DTC) in Sri Lanka. This initiative was set up by the Embassy of the...
Promoting CowSignals® at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Haryana,...
Jan 2024In January 2024, Ad Merks from HollandDoor attended the professional Dairy & Agri Expo in Kurukshetra, Haryana, organized by the Dairy Farmer Association (DFA). This yearly...
Update on sustainable aquaculture and agribusiness...
Jan 2024In September 2023 we started a new project in Indonesia in sustainable aquaculture and agribusiness, in collaboration with our Indonesian partners BBPPMPV Cianjur and IPB...
New project launched in Indonesia
Dec 2023You may be aware of our longstanding involvement in revitalizing vocational education and training in Indonesia for a number of years. Though it has been almost a year since...
Cedric van Oene, our first affiliated partner
Dec 2023To expand HollandDoor’s reach in specific regions or networks, we have decided to start working with affiliated partners. An affiliated partner is a professional who lives...
Korean farmers and consultants inspired by Dutch...
Nov 2023South Korean-based company Inkium Co. Ltd. , known for its extensive range of knowledge services, plays an important role in enhancing the human resource capacity of...
Insect farming in agriculture: a pathway to sustainable...
Sep 2023In the beginning of 2023 we introduced a new member, Marian Peters, who is one of the most experienced insect farming expert in the Netherlands. In this article, Marian...
Agrofood tour in Indonesia & Jordan
Aug 2023We mainly share our experiences about our training courses and study tours. In the summer of 2023, however, we spent our time also in a different way. Together with several...
28 Korean horticulture students in the Netherlands for...
Aug 2023After a successful edition in 2022 , the Chonnam National University (CNU) in South Korea asked HollandDoor to organize another training event. This year, they came with 20...
Dairy study tour DFA Haryana to the Netherlands
Jul 2023In July 2023, members of the Dairy Farmers Association (DFA) of Haryana, India, mainly young farmers, visited the Netherlands. The aim of the study tour was to compare Dutch...
Introducing GoatSignals in India
Jun 2023Almost three years ago, HollandDoor started to conduct CowSignals® training activities in India. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first sessions were held online, but for...
Three years after our training program in Indonesia ended,...
May 2023Indonesia is an agricultural country where most of the people work as farmers. The quality of human resources (HR) in agriculture can be strengthened through education at...
Touched by Prabath, a Sri Lankan dairy farmer
May 2023During a visit to Sri Lanka for the kick-off of a poultry project, Lisanne Oskam also visited a farmer who completed the online RVO Dairy project on sustainable feed and...
With CowSignals® at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Punjab
Feb 2023In early February 2023, HollandDoor was at the Dairy & Agri Expo in Ludhiana, organized by the Progressive Dairy Farmers Association (PDFA) from Punjab. The Dairy & Agri...
Linking agricultural cooperatives and the market in Cambodia
Nov 2022Linking agricultural cooperatives with the private sector and the market is high on the agenda of the Cambodian government. In November 2022, HollandDoor organized and...
Climate-proof and circular dairy farming in India
Oct 2022In the “Climate-proof and circular dairy farming in India” project, Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (VHL) joined forces with HollandDoor to investigate...
Succesful demos of CowSignals® training in three Indian...
Oct 2022Ocotober 2022, HollandDoor started giving on-site (live demo) CowSignals® training sessions in India. After two years of online training during the K2K (knowledge to...
Indian greenhouse farming - which regios to focus?
Oct 2022On request of the Agricultural Department of the Dutch Embassy in New Delhi, HollandDoor developed an infographic focusing on greenhouse horticultural development trends in...
Webinars on horticulture in China
Oct 2022To equip teachers at these vocational schools with the latest insights in modern and sustainable technologies in horticulture, it is important to update them regularly. That...
Korean CNU students visit Dutch greenhouse horticulture...
Oct 2022Chonnam National University (CNU) from South Korea asked HollandDoor to organize a 1-month tailor-made training event in the Netherlands for a group of 19 horticultural...
Strong vocational education drives growth
Aug 2022Indonesian delegation on study tour to learn from the Dutch (vocational) education system in the agro-sector. For many years, Indonesia has attached great importance to...
Setting up agri-food industrial parks in Cambodia
Jun 2022The Cambodian government, which intends to set up agri-food industrial parks in the country, decided to travel to the Netherlands to familiarize itself with different...
Indonesia network event
Jun 2022In June 2022, a large delegation of policymakers from the Ministry of Education In Indonesia, officials from the future vocational Centre of Excellence, and education...
Revitalizing vocational education in Indonesia: meeting...
Feb 2022Our HollandDoor newsletters have brought you regular updates on programs that aim to strengthen TVET education in Indonesia. Thanks to our strong partnerships with valuable...
Successful online training on dairy farming in India
Nov 2021Last year HollandDoor proved that the CowSignals® platform is an effective method for training of Indian dairy professionals online on how to improve health and milk...
Value chain and agri-business development training in Iraq
Oct 2021HollandDoor and ZOA are jointly implementing a Nuffic -funded program called “Enhancing the knowledge and skills of extension workers and farmers in efficient irrigation and...
Improving food safety and water efficient production for...
Oct 2021After a long period of only being able to hold courses online due to COVID-19, in the first week of October 2021, HollandDoor trainers were finally able to conduct a...
First online, practical dairy training in Sri Lanka is a...
Sep 2021Nearly 120 dairy farmers, farm managers, extension officers and other professionals in the fast-developing dairy sector in Sri Lanka have successfully completed a training...
Shanghai teachers respond enthusiastically to webinars
Jul 2021Teachers at the Shanghai Vocational School in China are responsible for educating their students based on the latest insights of modern and sustainable horticultural...
Indonesia: Win-win partnerships for vocational schools and...
Jun 2021Modern value chains are replacing traditional production supply chains in the agro-food sector. Increasingly, the focus is shifting towards sustainability, food safety,...
Indonesia: Strengthen students' entrepreneurial skills
May 2021The agrofood sector is evolving fast with new technologies and innovations, while society’s food habits, preferences and requirements are changing on a global and local...
Sri Lanka: Sustainable feed and waste management for the...
May 2021In 2020, HollandDoor started the ‘Sustainable feed & waste management in the dairy sector’ course in Sri Lanka on behalf of The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO:...
Sri Lanka and India: Improve your dairy business
May 2021To strengthen the dairy sector, HollandDoor experts conducted lively online workshops in 2020 for dairy advisors and other professionals in Sri Lanka and India. We used a...
Vietnam farmers ready for water recycling technology
Feb 2021After wrapping up a feasibility study with Fresh Studio and Ridder Growing Solutions , HollandDoor’s Geerten Van der Lugt and Jos Leeters concluded that the greenhouse...
India training-of-trainers project reaches new milestone...
Feb 2021The latest update of our three-year India project to realize market-driven greenhouse vegetable production came in July 2020. This project started in 2018 in collaboration...
Successful start of the CowSignals® online trainings in...
Oct 2020In India last month, HollandDoor started the first online CowSignals® advisor trainings. We organized these trainings online together with the Dutch Embassy in Delhi and the...
Effect of covid-19 pandemic: how do we move forward?
Jul 2020With the many trainings and programs we are conducting internationally, the outbreak of Covid19 has obviously created many challenges for the implementation of our...
HollandDoor starts CowSignals training for dairy...
Jun 2020As part of the K2K (knowledge to knowledge) program in India, HollandDoor, together with the Dutch Embassy and RVO, is planning an (online) CowSignals training. Depending on...
Update on India Training of Trainer project
Jun 2020In earlier newsletters and via our website, we’ve informed you multiple times about the progress in our 3-year India project that HollandDoor started in 2018 in...
Kick-off of TVET revitalization program in Indonesia
Feb 2020In February 2020 the next step in the TVET (Technical Vocational Education and Training) revitalization program in Indonesia was kicked-off. After two years of piloting, the...
HollandDoor in India also active in the dairy sector
Feb 2020The Dutch RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) has asked HollandDoor to organize four trainings on dairy farming in four different states in India.This is a so-called K2K...
TMT sustainable feed & waste management in the dairy...
Jan 2020At the beginning of 2020, HollandDoor started implementing training courses in Sri Lanka in the field of sustainable feed and waste management with the focus on dairy....
Market opportunities for Dutch greenhouse industry in India
Dec 2019“Analyze the market potential for Dutch vegetable greenhouse technology, services and knowhow”: that was the request from HollandDoor to Akash Pawar, an Indian student,...
Effective trainings in integrated pest management in Sri...
Dec 2019For the second year in a row, HollandDoor was project manager, on behalf of Lentiz Cursus and Consult, for Integrated pest management trainings for protected and open field...
Postharvest and tissue culture in the spotlights during...
Nov 2019The Embassy of the Netherlands in Colombo and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) have collaborated to conduct a study visit to the Netherlands late November 2019 with...
Indian delegation from Madhya Pradesh interested in Dutch...
Nov 2019For many years already, HollandDoor has maintained a good relationship with Jains Irrigation from India, one of the global market leaders in irrigation equipment. In...
India ToT program starts deliver seminars and trainings on...
Oct 2019In 2018 HollandDoor started a three-year project in India in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables in Baramati (see Launch protected cultivation...
Japanese strawberry sector keeps visiting Dutch colleagues
Oct 2019Greenbridge International managed by Mr. Yu Mizuki supports Japanese companies and individuals who want to do business with Europe and especially The Netherlands. In 2018,...
Bangladesh government continues to study Dutch agribusiness
Oct 2019In 2018, HollandDoor organized at the request of Kernel International , based in Dhaka Bangladesh, three short tailor-made study tours for the Ministry of Agriculture of...
Next steps in the development of the tomato area in...
Sep 2019In May eight stakeholders (farmer, traders, government employees, and consultants) related to the Narayangaon APMC market visited the Netherlands (read more). During this...
Chinese nursery sector shows continuous interest in the...
Aug 2019On the occasion of Plantarium , August 2019, a Chinese delegation under the leadership of Yang Kaiyun visited the Netherlands, Germany and Italy for a tree nursery business...
Chinese tree nursery sector ready for change
Jul 2019In June 2019, for the fifth year in a row, a Chinese tree nursery delegation visited the Netherlands under the leadership of Mr. Wang Jianming for a two-week study tour. The...
Value chain exposure visit of tomato stakeholders from the...
Jun 2019In the week of May 27, various stakeholders of the tomato supply chain in the Narayangaon region in Maharastrha, India visited the Netherlands for an intensive study tour....
Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture continues to study...
May 2019In 2018, HollandDoor organized three day-long tailor-made study tours for the Ministry of Agriculture of Bangladesh on themes such as “Mechanized Cropping”; “Vegetable...
Third training for staff of AgroTie and AgroStar
May 2019AgroTie is a training and service center located near Bangalore, India. It is a private sector initiative, with the mission to strengthen the economical perspective of...
Vietnamese farmers focus on climate smart horticulture
Apr 2019A group of six farmers from southern Vietnam visited the Netherlands and conducted a full-week study tour on the theme ‘climate smart horticulture’. Business Support...
Strengthening vocational education in Indonesia
Apr 2019In Indonesia, various projects have been started to strengthen education, to ensure better coordination between education and the professional field and to introduce new...
Working towards modern horticultural practices in India
Apr 2019In 2018 HollandDoor started a 3-year project in India in collaboration with the Center of Excellence (see Launch protected cultivation vegetable project ) . The main...
Integrated pest management training in Sri Lanka
Mar 2019On behalf of Lentiz , HollandDoor organized, for the second year, a series of workshops on Integrated Pest Management in Sri Lanka. The five workshops are organized by the...
Greenbridge and HollandDoor intensify co-operation to...
Dec 2018Greenbridge International supports Japanese companies and individuals who want to do business with Europe, especially the Netherlands. HollandDoor and Greenbridge work...
AgroTie, a new center of horticultural expertise in...
Dec 2018After a long period of preparation, exchange of ideas, exploring the needs of the market, recruiting staff, visits to the Netherlands, and planning by a board of experts,...
Successful first Sino-Dutch tree nursery training
Dec 2018Since 2015 we organized every year a two-week business tour for Chinese tree nursery companies. The initiator on the Chinese side is Mr. Wang Jianming, the owner of Handan...
Training-of-Trainer project successfully started at CoE...
Nov 2018In 2017, the Baramati Agricultural Development Trust, together with the Indian government, invested in a highly innovative Centre of Excellence (CoE) for vegetables, the...
South Korean growers receive intensive tour and training...
Oct 2018Aeres received a large group of South Korean strawberry and tomato growers as well as dairy farmers for a tailor-made tour and training program. Agriprogress was...
Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture visits the Netherlands
Jun 2018In February, May and June HollandDoor was requested by Kernel International to organize a one day tailor-made study tour for three high-ranked delegations from various...
Chinese tree nursery tour 2018
Jun 2018For the fourth year in succession we organized a 2 week business tour for Chinese tree nursery companies. Initiator on the Chinese side is the owner of Handan city...
HollandDoor launches a new three-year horticultural...
Jun 2018During the largest Dutch trade mission ever organized to India, from 22-25 May 2018, Mrs Carola Schouten ( Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the...
Indian floriculture learns from Dutch developments
May 2018In April 2018 a group of 12 persons from Centre of Excellence Talegaon Flower Staff and Saveer company , both from India, followed a course at the World Horti Centre in the...
Study tour for 40 Indian farmers from Madhya Pradesh
Apr 2018From 18 to 22 April 2018 a group of 40 Indian farmers from the state of Madhya Pradesh (central India) visited the Netherlands for a diverse program of farm visits. The...
Support Yezin Agricultural University in Myanmar with...
Feb 2018With financial support from Nuffic , the Dutch organization for internationalization in education, HollandDoor supported Yezin Agricultural University (YAU) in Myanmar to...
HollandDoor meets Indian Agro Industry at the Krushik 2018
Jan 2018HollandDoor participated from 19-22 January 2018 for the second time at the Krushik Expo organized by the Agricultural Development Trust and KVK Baramati . More than 200,000...
Chinese students submerged in Dutch horticultural sector...
Jan 201842 Chinese students have visited the Netherlands for one month from 20 November onwards, in order to get acquainted with all the aspects of the Dutch horticultural sector....
Giving a boost to IHITC
Dec 2017The International Horticulture Innovation and Training Center (IHITC) located in Jaipur, is a governmental organization with the aim to collect and disseminate knowledge in...
Impressive opening of Center of Excellence, Baramati
Nov 2017On 2 November 2017, the Maharashtra Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables, built at KVK, Baramati, was officially opened by a group of high-ranking Indian and Dutch...
Feeding Indian expanding cities
Oct 2017Every year in October, the Dutch consulate in Mumbai organizes the “Holland meets Mumbai” event. The population of India is growing, whereas the available agricultural land...
Chinese Tree nursery Business Tour in June 2017
Jun 2017The Chinese tree nursery sector is rapidly changing. Labor costs are rising and the number of large governmental projects is decreasing. This leads to increased interests...
AgroTie will boost the Horticultural sector in Karnataka
May 2017AgroTie, which is a private sector initiative, has the mission to strengthen the economical perspective of farmers and rural communities in Karnataka. Through knowledge,...
Potential Business Partners for Cadila Pharmaceuticals
Apr 2017Cadila Pharmaceuticals is a Gujarat based company, which does business in the pharmaceutical and the agricultural sector. A trip to the Netherlands brought the Chairman of...
Vietnamese trainees eager to learn more about protected...
Apr 2017With financial support from EP-Nuffic, an organisation which supports the international cooperation of education, HollandDoor successfully provided a 2-week-training course...
Local government Nagasaka, Japan, would like to modernize...
Feb 2017For years HollandDoor has had a very good relationship with Inochio Group Japan ( www.inochio.co.jp ). They are an important partner in the Japanese horticulture sector. On...
Krushik2017 India Fair: HollandDoor organizes...
Jan 2017Maharashtra Centre of Excellence Vegetables Since the autumn of 2016 the development and building of the "Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetable Production" has been in...
Technical training for grape growers from Sangli, India
Jan 2017Sangli, a region in the state of Maharashtra in India, is an area where the grape culture is extremely important. Only second after the Nashik region, Sangli has the largest...
Six-week training for CoE’s staff.
Nov 2016Maharashtra Centre of Excellence Vegetables Since the autumn of 2016 the development and building of the "Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetable Production" has been in...
Chinese tree nursery companies visit Europe for a second...
Oct 2016In the summer of 2015 a study tour was successfully organised by HollandDoor. This tour was arranged for a group of 16 top entrepreneurs from the Chinese tree nursery. The...
India Training Group at Demokwekerij Westland
Sep 2016The staff of an Indian company have undergone a super intensive course during the summer. Some took a 1-month-training others even took a 2-month-training. These courses...
Delegation of Maharashtra government, chaired by Mr....
Jul 2016Sharad Pawar Mr Sharad Pawar is member of the India parliament and president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian...
Asia interested in Dutch greenhouse and installation...
Apr 2016Asian countries are investing in their agricultural sector and intend to develop their greenhouse horticultural sector. GPI Consultancy , who is active in the ICT offshore...
UTZ country representatives trigger their mindsets by...
Jan 2016UTZ ( www.utz.org ), who is known for its ongoing efforts to make this world more sustainable, requested HollandDoor to organize an inspiring visit to a high-tech Dutch...
Market Access training for 56 participants from 14 countries
Jan 2016Every year, the Centre for Development Innovation, part of Wageningen UR (CDI-WUR) organizes the course “Market access for sustainable development’’, which targets...
Chinese researchers informed on breeding of vegetables
Jan 2016In January a group of researchers from China participated in an intensive training program in the Netherlands in the field of breeding, propagation and the cultivation of...
Vietnamese informed on trends and best practices in...
Dec 2015In May 2015, HollandDoor organized on request of the Center for High-Tech Application and Development in Agriculture (HTES) in Hanoi, Vietnam, a tailor-made training on...
Pre-conference Tour GMCC 2015
Nov 2015On Tuesday 17th November HollandDoor organized on behalf of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University the pre-conference tour of the 7th...
Potential new partner of DS Group visits India
Oct 2015Early 2015, Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group / www.dsgroup.com ) from India approached HollandDoor to assist in their search for a Dutch joint-business development...
Chinese teachers learn about Food Safety and Quality Control
Aug 2015In August, HollandDoor organized on request of Kenlog , a few training days about food safety and quality control in The Netherlands. The Chinese delegation existed of four...
DS Group India searches Dutch joint-business partner to...
Aug 2015Early 2015, Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group / www.dsgroup.com ) from India approached HollandDoor to assist in their search for a Dutch joint-business development...
Chinese tree nursery business visit to Europe
Jul 2015During the past 10 years the tree nursery sector in China has increased rapidly, as well in number as in size of the companies. The top entrepreneurs of the Chinese tree...
Export promotion course for Vietnamese fruit and...
May 2015HollandDoor offered a 3-days tailor-made course in the Netherlands in May 2015 for 6 Vietnamese producers and exporters of fresh fruits and vegetables on exporting to...
New Hope Liuhe China delegation visits pork companies
Nov 2014Hypor (Hendrix Genetics) requested HollandDoor to organize a study tour on Friday 21 November for a Chinese management delegation of New Hope Liuhe. The managers of New Hope...
40 trainees from 15 countries visit SION and GreenQ
Nov 2014HollandDoor organized at 18 November an excursion as part of course Market Access for Sustainable Development. This course for mid-career professionals is yearly organized...
Training for students of the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Oct 2014Ho llandDoor facilitated 2 trainings during summer 2014 for teachers of Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and Henan Agricultural University . Both trainings were 4...
Training for researchers from Henan Agricultural...
Aug 2014Between 3 and 17 August 2014, HollandDoor provided four days of training to a group of nine researchers from the Technical College of Henan Agricultural University (HAU) in...
Shandong Province Agro delegation visits the Netherlands
Aug 2014CECEC Rotterdam requested HollandDoor to organize a tailor-made excursion on Thursday 9 October for a Chinese agro delegation from Shandong Province. The delegation...
Training for teachers from the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Jul 2014From 14 July until 3 August 2014, HollandDoor provided four days of training to a group of nine Business Management teachers from the Vocational and Technical College of...
IMEC / High Tech Campus Eindhoven studies sensor usage in...
Apr 2014IMEC is a leading research institute in nanoelectronics. IMEC has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, India and Japan and has over 2080 employees. Click...
Japan National Research Project visits the Netherlands
Jan 2014On 14 January HollandDoor organized a short tour for a Japanese National Research Project. A group of academic researchers visited the Netherlands to experience the current...
Training for teachers from the Inner Mongolia Agricultural...
Sep 2013In cooperation with the EUC association from Grootebroek, a province of Noord-Holland ( www.foundationeuc.nl ), HollandDoor has organized a three-week training for 14...
Two-week training for ADT-KVK, in Baramati, India
Sep 2013Together with Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences , HollandDoor organized a two week training on Horticultural Value Chain Development for KVK Baramati ,...
Van Hall Larenstein and HollandDoor train Indian...
May 2013The population in India is growing rapidly, causing an increasing demand for products such as cereals, rice, chocolate, flowers, vegetables and fruit. Meeting this demand...