Simon Groot
Simon Nanne Groot (born 1934)
Childhood and education
Born into a family of crop seed cultivators in 1934 in the city of Enkhuizen, Netherlands, Groot was a sixth-generation member of the family business, Sluis & Groot . He received a degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.[4]
Career
By 1981, Groot's family business had to be sold, prompting him to develop his own company named East West Seed with the money made from the family sale.
Groot noted that it was initially difficult to get farmers in the Philippines to commit to using hybrid seeds, with only 20 percent of the farming population in the country committing to the idea by 1992.
Awards and honors
Groot was given the 2015 Mansholt Award for sustainable entrepreneurship for his work with East West Seed in providing seed cultivars to improve the agriculture of
References
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- Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. p. 4. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
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- ^ "The Netherlands Knights Filipina Agriculture Advocate". BusinessMirror. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022 – via Gale.
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- ^ Smouter, Karel (1 March 2016). "Een lijst met de wereldwijde toegang tot zaden, schieten we daar iets mee op?" [A list of worldwide access to seeds, does that help us?]. De Correspondent (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ Madhvi, Sally (30 September 2019). "Help smallholder farmers thrive economically: Simon Groot". The Economic Times. Retrieved 17 November 2022 – via Gale.
- ^ van der Scheer, Ton (25 February 2016). "Zaadbedrijven langs maatschappelijke meetlat" [Seed companies on a social yardstick]. Groenten & Fruit (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 November 2022.