Optimization of flower breeding – Kwekerij Baas
Overview
| Company Name / Department | Kwekerij Baas |
| Contact Person | Dieter Baas |
| Location | Ens |
| Optional remote work | Yes, possible |
| Travel expenses (own account or reimbursed by the company) | Reimbursed by the company |
| Housing arranged by company | Maybe possible together with international workers |
| Housing expenses (how much per month, own account or subsidized by the company) | Subsidized by company |
| Internship compensation | Yes, TBD |
| Study program | OML |
| ESCF community |
CDT |
| Start date |
September, 2023 |
Company Description
Kwekerij Baas supplies colorful seasonal bloomers to large-scale retail all year round. Traders and retailers from Europe can visit Kwekerij Baas every season for a wide variety of pot and garden plants, including pansies, bedding plants, chrysanthemums and poinsettias.
Project Description
Project description:
Kwekerij Baas operates large greenhouses to supply flowers all year round. Demand for these flowers can be forecasted. Given these forecasts and the constraints relating to their greenhouses, the question when to plant what seeds. Lighting and water conditions inside the greenhouses may also differ or can be controlled such that an additional question arises as to where in the greenhouses to plant the seeds.
Goals of the project:
Develop a model for flower breeding
Deliverables:
(near-)optimal flower breeding schedule
Essential student knowledge:
- Knowledge about optimization techniques
- Knowledge about stochastic processes
More information: escf@tue.nl
