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 gl