GreenTech Amsterdam 2022: visitors and key topics
GreenTech Amsterdam 2022 at RAI Amsterdam (14–16 June) drew 10,890 trade visitors from 121 countries, with robotics and food production in focus.
14–16 June 2022, RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The fifth GreenTech Amsterdam took place at RAI Amsterdam on 14–16 June 2022, drawing 10,890 horticulture professionals from 121 countries.
Trade visitors: 10,890
What happened at GreenTech Amsterdam 2022
RAI Amsterdam hosted the fifth GreenTech Amsterdam on 14–16 June 2022. The organiser, RAI Amsterdam, reported 10,890 trade visitors from 121 countries over the three days. Its closing review singled out robotics and food production as standout topics. Its subject is technology for horticulture, above all for crops grown under cover, so the crowd was made up largely of people who design, equip and run greenhouses.
Much of the 2022 discussion treated the greenhouse as one connected system. Climate control, lighting, irrigation, plant nutrition and harvest organisation all affect each other, so a change in one area ripples through the rest. Growers paid attention to how clear the control settings were and how useful the resulting data proved, rather than counting software features. Talk of water efficiency also covered its quality, recirculation and the demands of each crop.
The visitor list read like a cross-section of the greenhouse business: growers of vegetables and ornamentals, facility managers, designers, automation firms, investors and advisers. One useful comparison set companies selling a single device against those prepared to run an entire subsystem. Serious buyers also asked about commissioning, training for staff, how parts work together and support after the sale. Across a growing season, one badly set parameter or several days of lost production can outweigh any price difference between offers.
The best way to read the 2022 stands was through the grower’s own headaches, such as patchy climate inside the house, awkward handling, high consumption of resources or data stuck in separate systems. Concept awards, products already on sale and technology still needing development work were different things, and visitors learned to tell them apart. Any savings figure needed a defined starting point to mean anything for a particular crop, climate or business model.
Highlights
- Fifth edition at RAI Amsterdam, 14–16 June 2022
- 10,890 trade visitors from 121 countries
- Robotics and food production singled out in the closing review
Agricultural events 2022
