So tell me what are you holding?

I'm holding a letter seats at the moment.

They're tiny and can you shake them?

They're in like a little white paper package.

And let's hear a shake. And let's see them.

Oh, they are tiny.

You're like the tiniest seeds I have ever seen.

They are, I would say kind of a dusty brown almost like

sesame or something but very small I think that's a very good comparison

sesame but a little bit more pointy. Boca Valentra works at a place called Reichsfon in the Netherlands.

Every day, millions of people eat fruits and vegetables that originally come from their seeds.

And a lot of that is lettuce.

I'm here with other journalists visiting one of their hydroponic plant breeding

facilities in the Netherlands.

It's so high-tech we need to cover our shoes with a plastic wrap, like

shower caps but for feet. We are walking from the office to the greenhouse.

There are rows of green and purple lettuce plots above ground.

Fans are swirling, water is continuously spraying,

but the lettuce here is not going to market. It's being used to create or produce new lettuce

seeds. We are breathing lettuce. Pater Schoonnevelle explains how they breed the lettuce seeds.

And you see a lot of yellow sticks?

Each stick means that they've got, let's say, a father or mother and mother and the kids are standing in a plot of 20 plants. The plant breeders take the pollen from the male plant to pollinate the female plant, and that offspring is new, higher quality seeds.

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