date:May 14, 2020
year round seems unthinkable. This is partly due to the high (unsubsidised) energy costs in Germany, which are often five times as expensive as in the Netherlands. This ensures that new cultivation concepts, such as illuminated cultivation, are hardly profitable.
Despite their great popularity, strawberries are a relatively cheap product, making higher production costs difficult to pass on to the retail price, says a grower. For that reason, people are cautious about seasonal extensions. Trader