Visit us Mail us Call us Jobs at Ridder Select language EN Markets Solutions Projects About us News Contact My Ridder Ridder Helping you grow your way Ridder Inspirience Discover Ridder Solutions for Controlled Environment Agriculture Fresh Produce Floriculture Vertical Farming Intensive Livestock All markets Innovation for a changing world Population growth, climate change, scarcity of water and fertilizers; the changing world is a huge challenge for farmers worldwide. With the help of our expertise, commitment, intelligent systems and practical solutions, we help farmers to overcome these challenges by adopting their own individual approach to efficient and sustainable controlled environment agriculture, wherever they are located in the world. Our solutions Seeding knowledge, reaping benefits Sharing knowledge across the globe plays a key role in Ridder's strategy. By sharing our knowledge effectively, we can ensure that customers use our technology to its fullest potential and are able to take their crop yields, quality standards, business processes and personal development to the next level. We also place great value on cooperation and believe it is essential to engage with our customers and the markets in which we operate. Ultimately, sharing our knowledge and experience enables us to tailor our products and services even more precisely to our customers’ needs. Inspiring case studies “Carefree planning with 20 years of valuable crop data” Dutch tomato grower Sweet Lions grows a large variety of specialty tomatoes on an acreage of 8 hectares. This cultivation is an extensive and labor-intensive crop with a variety of varieties, colors and processing procedures. Crop and quality manager Jack Jansen explains how the grower together with Ridder optimized the production and made processes transparent. Read more The biggest challenge of the 21st Century “Humanity must produce more food in the next four decades than we have in the last 8,000 years". Trend watcher and futurist Richard van Hooijdonk discusses the pros and cons of a tech-dominated approach. "The biggest problem is that some of these solutions are simply not applicable to developing countries – where they’re needed the most – at least not yet." Read more Diversification drives development of Chinese floriculture sector After a few slower years, the Chinese floriculture industry can be considered a blooming business once again. Investments in new greenhouse operations take place, growers expand their offerings with new varieties and colors and more interest in automation and controlled environment practices can be seen. It was all exposed during last week’s Kunming International Flower Show. Read more More news & events "We understand farmers and growers. We're committed to getting them results" "Our mission is to provide farmers, growers and investors with know-how and effective technological solutions in order to increase the sustainability of protected horticulture, intensive livestock farming and crop storage around the world. Using our 65 years of knowledge and experience in the agri-food sector, we work in constant partnership with them to find the best possible solutions, tailored precisely to their local needs and specific conditions." - Klaas van de Poppe, CEO Ridder Group The story of Ridder What we do Markets Solutions Projects About Ridder History Offices Vacancies Contact Newsletter Stay informed of news & promotions Email address Subscribe Terms and conditionsDisclaimer All rights reserved by Ridder The Ridder website uses functional cookies. These ensure that the website works properly and that visitor preferences are remembered. Cookies also keep track of the surfing behavior of visitors that can be used for tailoring content or offering advertisements. Ridder respects the privacy of all visitors to its website. The information you provide will be treated confidentially. We only use your data to keep you informed of everything that is happening within Ridder. Of course we do this with your permission. Your details will never be sold to third parties or made available to third parties.Accept cookies