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Agroparks in the U.S. - a horn of plenty for investors?

America is known as the land of opportunity. When it comes to greenhouse horticulture though, there's still a world to win. With a large amount of greenhouse vegetables being…

Tiffany Tsui

High level business to business dialogue between China and the Netherlands, September 14

Turn-key business models of feeding & greening megacities

According to FAO (2016), the production of fruit and vegetables in the world would have to triple to provide a healthy diet for everyone. The combination of continued rapid…

Certhon

Certhon investigates indoor conditions for beef tomatoes

Certhon has recently started a new research on indoor cultivation of beef tomato in its Innovation Centre in Poeldijk. Rui Yin, Certhon’s R&D engineer and agronomist says: “We…

Netherlands: Three generations of Verkade ready to complete tomato crop

The crop is looking great at VOF M. Verkade at De Poel in Monster, the Netherlands. Reason for three generations of tomato growers to take a nice picture of it. For the…

Cornucopia to build hydroponic farm in Georgia

Cornucopia Farms Inc. (CFI), a Marietta (Georgia) based company, is pleased to announce the launch of its first commercial project. The company is completing the construction…

Kevin Vandevelde about Pepino mosaic virus vaccine:

"Easy to verify that all plants have been properly vaccinated"

Kevin Vandevelde is the head of cultivation and manager of Les Serres des Hauts de France in Arques, Pas-de-Calais. After having worked in the family business in Belgium, he…

The function and management of nitrogen in hydroponics

Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients in plant development. All vital processes in plants are associated with protein, of which nitrogen is an essential constituent.…

Urban Crop Solutions

ModuleX Plant Factory produces basil at costs below €10/kg

Urban Crop Solutions presented their new “ModuleX Plant Factory” at a launch webinar with 500 registrations from 40 countries, of which 245 attended the event live. The…

Russia: Farmer's School to educate future growers

The specialists of Russian cultivation company AIC Eco-kultura will become the ambassadors of the unique project Farmer’s School by Rosselkhozbank and will take upon…

Netherlands: Atlantic Growers, Zuidgeest Growers and Vitapep continue as Frestia

The three Dutch companies Atlantic Growers, Zuidgeest Growers and Vitapep were already closely linked. Now this cooperation has been further strengthened and the companies are…

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Pioneering in Southern China:

Young plant nursery to support region with quality vegetable seedlings

In Tiandong County, a beautiful place located in the Guangxi province, Mr Luo and Professor Yu of the Guangxi University of Agricultural Sciences, shared one ambitious goal:…

Simple tuning rules for Feedforward compensators

In a recent study, simple tuning rules for feedforward compensators were applied to design a control strategy to regulate the inside air temperature of a greenhouse during…

Key priorities for EU Agri ministers during COVID-19

The political start of the second semester 2020 was eagerly awaited by the entire European farming community. Many essential issues were put on the agenda of…

Cut ‘N Clean Greens celebrates 25 year anniversary

San Miguel Produce, Inc.’s cornerstone brand, Cut ‘N Clean Greens, celebrates 25 years of innovating the dark leafy greens category. In 1995, Roy Nishimori, San Miguel…
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Optimizing genotyping processes at lower costs

NRGene, AI based genomic analysis for research and agricultural breeding company, announced the launch of SNPer – a new product that optimizes genotyping…

GlobalGAP Awards 2022 applications open

The GAP Awards give farmers from around the world an opportunity to showcase their achievements and gain industry recognition for their efforts to implement…

Mprise organises webinars about ERP & Apps for seed companies

Also in September, Mprise Agriware will host two webinars. The first session is about crop management and seed production management. We will focus on the management of…

Helping crops fight off smoke, rain and too much sun

As the country sees the headlines of the effects of the California wildfires—not only potentially burning crops, but the after effects of smoke and ash on the state’s crops—it…

CAN (ON): Governments investing over $7.9 mln to help farmers bring safe food to market

The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing more than $7.9 million through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership to help farmers improve their business…

Cleanfarms

Cleanfarms collects unwanted pesticides and medication

Cleanfarms is gearing up to run its 2020 fall collection program for unwanted agricultural pesticides and obsolete livestock, equine and poultry medications so that farmers…

Doctor Greenhouse

Vapor pressure deficit affecting water utilization rates

Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) represents the 'pressure' that air puts on the plant to transpire and move air from the roots through the plant and out the stomata in their…

Werner Baumann

Board of Management at Bayer keeps its chairman

The Supervisory Board of Bayer AG has unanimously decided to extend the contract of Werner Baumann, Chairman of the Board of Management, until April 30, 2024. Before the…

Nine Singapore farms awarded almost S$40 mln in grants to increase local food production

Nine companies have been awarded grants totalling S$39.4 million under a scheme to strengthen Singapore's food security, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said…

Response of green and red lettuce to NaCl concentration in two successive harvests

Nutritional eustress such as salinity or nutrient stress applied in soilless systems, is a convenient pre-harvest factor efficient in modulating the phytochemical components…

Acadian Plant Health launches Acadian Open Academy

Acadian Plant Health launches the Acadian Open Academy, a global network of experts to collaborate on the development of a portfolio of complete solutions for…

Greenhouses produce steady income for Chinese villagers

With seven greenhouses producing fruit and vegetables, Gao Houfeng no longer worries about food. Gao and his family moved to Liuhu town, Yumen city, Gansu…

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US intent on banning tomato imports from Xinjiang, China

US Customs and Border Protection officials have prepared orders to block imports of tomato products (as well as cotton) from China’s western region of…

Farmpal: Removing middlemen and connecting growers to businesses directly

In Pune, start-ups like Farmpal have opened new collection centres to help growers deliver fresh produce easily by connecting growers to their markets and…

ALDI U.S. has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact

Metro Canada is accelerating the roll-out of the FoodHero app

US: PriceSmart announces August net merchandise sales and earnings releasePriceSmart, Inc. announced that for the month of August 2020 net merchandise sales increased 0.9% to…

Spain: Which Spanish regions would be most affected by Brexit tariffs?

Murcia, Valencia, Galicia and Aragón are the regions most potentially exposed to the consequences of a no-deal Brexit. This is due to the relative weight of their trade with…

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Benguet Province

Filipino growers donate millions worth of unsold vegetables to citizens of La Trinidad

La Trinidad is the capital of the province of Benguet in the Philippines. Filipino growers and traders have been donating millions of pesos worth of unsold…

PMA virtual town hall

“Our drones can deliver orders within 3 minutes from shops directly to consumers”

This week’s PMA virtual town hall focused on the ‘last mile delivery’ – the last step in the supply chain, which is often considered to be most crucial and problematic. As the…

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