Reichenau Gemüse eG, a vegetable growing co-operative from Reichenau Island in Lake Constance on the German-Swiss border, now protects its peppers with a high quality Geutebruck video security system. Not just because Germans are particularly partial to the fruit of the capsicum annuum, but because the co-operative needs to deter vandalism and safeguard production continuity.
2012 was the first growing season for its new 11 hectare production site at Beuren an der Aach, near Singen in ‘mainland’ Baden-Württemberg where a tall 110,000 square metre, high-tech glasshouse accommodates 250,000 pepper plants. After an early break-in with associated damage led to expensive repair bills and an interruption to production, the five families in the venture decided in future: better safe than sorry. So to safeguard their contract for the supply of peppers to Edeka stores across southern Germany, they had local installer Casicuro GmbH fit a Geutebruck video system and have since experienced no further incidents.
