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10,000 visitors PotatoEurope 2017
PotatoEurope welcomed around 10,000 visitors on Thursday. The trade fair was opened by the mayor of the Noordoostpolder, Aucke van der Werff. By pushing the button, he started the harvesting demonstrations.
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The Innovators went straight into the box filling demonstration and storage lines. In the morning, there have been a lot of demonstrations. The 270 exhibitors from 16 countries could count on an interested audience from 53 countries. Amongst does more than 800 students! They came for the function route and lectures on Future, Space, Virtual.
Innovation Award
The golden innovation award has been handed out to BASF with the 1.4 Sight sprout inhibitor. Dr. Ir. Peter Kooman, lector potato chain and sector innovation at Aeres University, praised the innovative nature of the product as chairman of the jury. This is a new way of thinking to control sprout naturally. Gebr. MagGrow. Weststrate won the silver award. Bronze went to Tolsma Grisnich with the 5M Temperature Sensor. Prior to the trade fair, the expert jury selected 5 contenders from 26 entries. The public voted to determine the final winners.
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