The Belgian Center for Fruit Growing (Pcfruit), together with the Universities of Hasselt and Maastricht, is starting a study on the usefulness of fruits in the production of building materials or textiles. This is reported by the Dutch Fruit Growers Organization (NFO).
Fibers from plants such as hemp are already being used as insulating material in construction. Pcfruit wants to explore whether substances found in fruit varieties could also find new uses. For fruit growers, this can be useful when, for example, there is an additional destination for fruits that are currently being processed industrially.
This includes ferulic acid. “This acid is found in several types of fruit. For example, it can be used in the textile industry to make clothing biodegradable,” Pcfruit Managing Director Dani Bylemans told VRT radio.
In addition to Pcfruit’s collaboration with the Universities of Hasselt and Maastricht, the pilot center is collaborating with the textile innovation center Centexbel in Ghent and Compas Agro in Venlo. The province of Limburg, Flanders and the European Union are jointly allocating 4 million euros for the study. This period is three years.
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اکثریت قریب به اتفاق اعضای FNV که در باغبانی گلخانه ای کار می کنند با پیشنهاد نهایی کارفرمایان موافق نیستند.
به گفته این اتحادیه، شکاف قابل توجهی بین پیشنهاد نهایی کارفرمایان و الزامات دستمزد FNV وجود دارد. نمایندگان کارفرما افزایش 3 درصدی دستمزدها را از اول ژانویه 1 و 2023 درصدی از اول ژوئیه 2 را پیشنهاد می کنند. لیندا اسلاگتر مدیر FNV Agrarisch Groen ادعا می کند که با این پیشنهاد، تعداد کارمندان قطعاً 1 درصد کاهش می یابد. .
Slagter calls the decision of the members of the FNV not to agree to this bold. She also believes that employees’ loyalty to their employers is too often put to the test. “We are disappointed by this and are asking employers to come up with a better offer.”
جبران قیمت عمومی
FNV می خواهد که افزایش هزینه های زندگی در دستمزدها منعکس شود. علاوه بر این، اتحادیه کارگری پیشنهاد می کند که غرامت قیمت عمومی در قرارداد جمعی لحاظ شود. اسلاگتر میگوید FNV میداند که باغبانهای گلخانهای نیز روزهای سختی را سپری میکنند، اما او همچنین میبیند که کارمندان بیشتری دیگر نمیدانند چگونه از نظر مالی از این موضوع حمایت کنند.
مدیر اجرایی اتحادیه گفت: «این منجر به نارضایتی در محیط کار می شود و پیشنهاد نهایی کارفرمایان برای یک قرارداد دسته جمعی وضعیت را بهبود نمی بخشد. بر اساس گزارش FNV، به طور متوسط حدود 35,000 کارمند در باغبانی گلخانه ای مشغول هستند. در فصل اوج این تعداد بسیار بیشتر است.