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Polybee: There’s a new drone in greenhouses, and it isn’t a bumblebee

“Pollination can help you define your yield potential but whether or not you achieve this depends on how well the farm is being managed and if you can close the feedback loop…

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Middle East AgTech accelerates expansion following oversubscribed investment round

Red Sea Farms, a Saudi Arabian AgTech business whose one-of-a-kind technology enables the commercial farming of produce using primarily saltwater and sunlight, has…

Cucumber production with LED grow lights

From two a week to two a day per square meter

The cucumber plants at the Danish nursery Klarskov Gartneri are doing well under the new grow lights from DGT by Senmatic. From harvesting two cucumbers a week per square…

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Identification of agents of crazy root disease on hydroponically cultivated cucumbers in Poland

Hydroponically cultivated cucumber plants with characteristic symptoms of crazy root disease were found in two different commercial production cucumber greenhouses in Poland.…

Top management of the fruit and vegetable market of Vittoria changes

ToBRFV emergency continues in Sicily

"The regional government has once again asked for concrete help to assist the growers who have been affected by the ToBRVF for months," said regional deputy Stefania Campo who…

Big Marble Farms:

“Anything that we can convert into sustainable packaging, we do”

Around the world, consumers have been sounding the alarm on single-use plastics in food packaging and are looking for sustainable alternatives to conventional clamshells and…

Monitoring Vapor Pressure Deficit: use VPD sensor data for smarter growing

Measuring vapor pressure deficit has become increasingly important in horticulture. In this article, 30MHz talks about vapor pressure deficit, commonly referred to as VPD. Why…

How to carry out a quick and easy crop rotation

For many growers, it will soon be that time again: the crop rotation. A new crop should start as optimally as possible, so good preparation and execution are of great…

“We have seen that our berry varieties perform better in these pots"

Tomas Gonzalez, Head of Production at Snack Berries: “We have seen that the varieties that we produce perform better in Plantlogic pots, achieving higher yields compared to…

Manila Standard

Growing strawberries in hot climates with aeroponics

"We reduced the cost of cooling by just cooling the plant roots”

Strawberry production is now made possible in the lowlands and hot areas of the Philippines through the vertical aeroponic system and root zone cooling technology, innovated…

Special Energy 2021

"The plant empowerment path offers endless possibilities to learn more about plant physics"

With years of experience in rose cultivation, Peter van Ninhuys started working as a cultivation manager for Van Lipzig Tuinderijen in 2017. “At that time Van Lipzig…

Abbeyview: greenhouses powered by sewage

"More subsidies are needed to support emission-saving design

The Financial Times posted a video on their Food Revolution. showing how carbon-saving marvels of agricultural engineering have sprouted from the fields of southeast Britain -…

Low CO2 and still good cucumber production in Winterlight Greenhouse

​The Winterlight Greenhouse is a new type of greenhouse. Compared to the Venlo greenhouse, the crop receives 10% more light in the winter months. As a result, less energy is…

First PAR+ coating applied on Dutch greenhouses

"One step closer to future-proof greenhouses"

Today Physee is celebrating a big milestone. "A month ago, after five weeks of waiting for the rain to end, we applied the first-ever 50m2 PAR+ coating onto a greenhouse with…

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The power of high tunnel growing in Northern US

High tunnels offer northern New York market growers an easy way to extend their limited growing season by two or three months. Sometimes more. Farmers can grow early and/or…

In Afghanistan, greenhouses help families grow food year round

Until a few years ago, 45 year-old Wahida, a farmer and mother of six, could not afford to buy coal to heat her home. Today, she is the sole breadwinner of her family and…
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Russia; Vegetables of protected soil assigned to priority areas of agro-industrial complex

Following the results of the conciliation meeting with the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation re-introduced…

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Meet the 'seed detective' on a mission to save rare vegetables

Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare vegetable varieties. They might look ordinary enough, but many have been saved from…

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Australian government warns of viruses detected in mail seeds

A range of vegetable and fruit viruses have been detected in seeds from overseas, demonstrating the significant biosecurity risks that illegal seed imports can pose.…

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Africa’s evolving vegetable seed sector: status, policy options and lessons from Asia

Considering the nutritional challenges facing the African continent, and the economic challenges of poverty and unemployment, it is essential to give higher priority to…

Holding a meeting on collecting horticultural products

A meeting on how to collect horticultural products was held at the Ministry of Agriculture campus with the presence of Shirshah Amiri, deputy minister of agriculture and…

British pavilion to be organized at GreenTech Amsterdam

The Commercial Horticultural Association (CHA) is already planning for the rescheduled GreenTech in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 14-16 June 2022, where it…

$US40M granted for irrigation development in Madagascar

The government of Madagascar has received US$40 million from the World Bank for irrigation development in the country. The Sustainable Agriculture Project…

Santa Maria, California cooling facility goes solar

Driscoll’s has installed 3,384 solar panels on its 155,000 square-foot cooling facility in Santa Maria, CA, which is estimated to generate 1.4 million kilowatt-hours of power…

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Wave pattern of hormones dictates formation of lateral roots

Realistic computer model maps root growth

When you’re uprooting a plant, the network of plant roots often looks like an unorganized web. However, plant roots grow according to a fixed pattern: the main root grows…

Coming to the the catwalk: clothes made from agricultural waste

What agricultural waste can we use as fibres for the fashion industry? It turns out there are quite a few. For example, rice straw or banana stems will soon be found in…

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US (CA): Light shed on closure of longtime tomato growing operation

Houweling Nurseries Oxnard was forced to sell its greenhouse and lay off workers because the investment firm that owns the farm opted not to renew its lease, Houweling…

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US: Online symposium on viral and bacterial food safety

For everyone involved in getting food from farms to tables, experts from around the country will speak about new and established ways to ensure food safety at a free online…

Compete for the Fruit & Tech Innovation Award and win a cash prize of €2,500

Do you want to win an award for your technological innovation? This year, the Fruit Tech Campus is presenting the Fruit & Tech Innovation Award to the innovation that…

Chinese greenhouse horticulture must also innovate without government

China is a vast, agricultural country. Much of its covered cultivation is done in so-called "solar" greenhouses. These are quite simple, technology-wise. "You build a soil or…

Limpopo tomatoes and peppers severely damaged by freeze, then sunburn

In the week following the civil unrest, a very widespread frost damaged tomatoes across Limpopo Province. The frost was accompanied by a breeze, from Ellisras, Alldays,…

Chinese Syngenta Group announces two new tomato varieties

Syngenta Group China organized the "Flavor Journey---Yoom cocktail tomato and Nebu cherry tomato tasting session" in Shanghai on the 7th of August, 2021. These two unique…

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Vegetable bouquets?

Everyone is familiar with flower bouquets. But vegetable bouquets? Danish cyclist Kasper Asgreen, for example, received one. He was being honored for winning this year's Tour…

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