'Consumers and politicians want regional, CO2-neutral vegetables - but they don't want greenhouses on the edge of town'

Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Jul-24 Fri 09:41

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"It's a paradox - everyone wants organically, regional and CO2 neutral vegetables, but the vegetable farms needed for this should not be near their own village," laments Peter Höfler junior, partner of Höfler Gemüse. It is a problem that is prevalent not only for vegetable greenhouses, but for other…

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