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sustainable production 2040
As part of the STD-programme (Sustainable Technology Development; a Dutch governmental programme)
everybody with original, innovating ideas for Sustainable High-Tech Food Production in the year
2040 is invited to send in pioneering thoughts.
Prizes of 25,000 Dutch Guilders (approx. 15,000 USDollars) will be granted to the two best ideas
on how to make High-Tech Food Crops Production possible. The targeted production system should be
based on the following (technological) starting points:
- production units use only solar light as energy source
- optimized supply of light to the plants
- optimized conversion and storage of energy
- application of specific sensors and actuators
- total-crop principle: utilization of all wastes and by-products
- production is local and demand-oriented
- integration of the above mentioned technologies
The contest has opened May 1, 1996. The ideas have must have reached the jury not later than July
1, 1996.
Full details of the contest and background information on the STD-programme, can be found in WWW
page
http://www.bib.wau.nl/ato/hta/index.html
E-mail: hta.page@ato.dlo.nl
Joost Mogendorff
Netherlands
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