✦ LIBER ✦
Geert Veenhuizen (1857–1930), the pioneer of potato breeding in the Netherlands
✍ Scribed by H. Haan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1958
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 984 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2336
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Potato breeding proper in the Netherlands started in 1888 at the initiative of GEERT VEENHUIZEN at Sappemeer. He was very successful in breeding new potato varieties and stimulated Dutch farmers to tackle potato breeding.
On November 18, 1957, just 100 years from the day that VEENHUIZEN was born, a memorial meeting was held at Sappemeer. VEENHUIZEN'S significance was illustrated and a portrait presented to the Agricultural University.
Reproductions of the portrait and a memoir in higher, secondary and primary agricultural schools will keep alive VEENHUIZEN'S significance for agriculture in the Netherlands.