A farmhouse, surrounded by greenhouses, in Westland, the Netherlands.

Agricultural greenhouses in the Westland region of the Netherlands, which with 80 percent of its cultivated land under glass is known as the country’s ‘greenhouse capital’.

Butter lettuce grown under LED light in a 9-hectare warehouse belonging to Siberia BV, in Maasbree, the Netherlands.

Ruud Veloo monitors an experimental photobioreactor, in which light fuels the growth of microalgae, which are used to produce proteins and lipids, the basis of many food chains, at AlgaePARC, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Plant scientist Henk Kalkman checks tomatoes at a facility that tests combinations of light intensity, spectrum and exposures at the Delphy Improvement Centre in Bleiswijk, the Netherlands.

Jan and Gijs van den Borne learn how to remove rocks from a 6,000-tonne mountain of potatoes, on their family farm near Reusel, the Netherlands. The family uses drones and other technology to assess the health of individual plants, and the amount of water and nutrients needed, and yields twice the global average of other potato growers.

A rotary milking machine that enables one operator to milk up to 150 cows an hour, at Wageningen University Dairy Campus, near Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

Students from around the world learn how to find solutions to critical problems that may exist in climate conditions in  their home countries, in the controlled environment of  a greenhouse laboratory at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

A chicken farmer on a facility in which technological developments are worked on in collaboration with animal rights groups, in Wintelre, the Netherlands.

Agricultural greenhouses in the Westland region of the Netherlands, which with 80 percent of its cultivated land under glass is known as the country’s ‘greenhouse capital’.

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