TV | Clear news | Friday 16 August 2024

HUS. Oat farming. Drone in food delivery. Weather

HUS reduces the number of people

First, news about big layoffs in healthcare

HUS Group reduces employees. HUS estimates that the number of employees will probably be reduced by around a thousand.

With the reductions, HUS wants to save around 50 million euros.

HUS is responsible for specialized hospital care in the Helsinki region. HUS has approximately 28,000 employees.

HUS Group reduces employees.

Chief shop steward Nina Jaara says that such large reductions lengthen patient queues and are also reflected in treatment.

Oats are being experimentally cultivated in Lapland

Then the topic is oat farming.

Dozens of different oat varieties are being experimentally cultivated in Lapland this summer.

With the help of trial cultivation, we want to find out the varieties that are most successful in the north. Experimental cultivation provides information on, for example, how the length of the day affects grain growth, or how different varieties withstand heavy rain.

Dozens of different oat varieties are being experimentally grown in Tervola, southwestern Lapland.

Natural Resources Center researcher Juho Hautsalo says that due to climate change, grains can now be grown further north than before.

Oats have been chosen as a test grain because it has good health effects, its consumption is increasing, and it is a sustainable crop.

Food by drone

Then we’ll see how food deliveries go with a drone.

This drone flies layered burgers to Espoo’s Suurpelto.

This is a test by the food delivery company Foodora, where they try to deliver food to a customer with a drone.

Foodora CEO Jacob Segercranz says that in the future, drone transport may be used if goods need to be delivered to, for example, an archipelago or a rural area.

This drone can carry 3 kilograms of stuff about 80 kilometers away.

Saturday’s weather

Another weather forecast.

On Saturday, it can rain in the south and east. The sun is shining elsewhere.

The temperature is slightly above 20 degrees throughout the country.