Finnish Glasshouse Grower Association ( KPL ) - Finland

KPL is a national organisation in horticultural business. The association with its employees offers a channel for the people in the glasshouse business to bring forward their opinions and ambitions. KPL promotes and improves the glasshouse growing business in Finland.

KPL promotes the familiarity of the products in glasshouse business. The association makes campaigns to keep the business and its products visible in the public medium. The organisation works to balance the markets by arranging sales promotion of glasshouse products and by keeping in touch with the people marketing the products and  by encouraging consumers to use more glasshouse products. KPL enhances the skills of the growers by arranging education, exhibitions, study trips and development projects and by publishing a magazine “PUUTARHA & Kauppa†covering the whole horticultural business. KPL offers an effective and up to date information service to its members. The newsletters inform the members of the most important news. The Newsletters are backed up by homepages in the internet. In the pages for the members matters concerning horticultural business and News bulletins are handled.

Role in the project

Regarding its expertise, KPL cooperate with other RTD and associations from north of Europe and transfer its experience about the end-user requirement in this region to RTD in order to assist them to initiate the EQS and guideline and evaluate the results of field test. The results of project will be disseminated by KPL through training courses, workshops and publishing the articles in internal magazines.