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"Many opportunities in Chinese horticulture"

Planti, Horti-Polaris and Strawberry Planet. These names might sound familiar with those familiar to the Chinese horticultural industry. They are examples of modern…

Video Take a look into the Plant Production Units of Dutch wholesaler Van Gelder

Man and machine in perfect harmony - that is Japanese car manufacturer, Mazda's, slogan. Looking at Dutch wholesaler, Van Gelder's, new head office gives one the same…

European Commission looks ahead

European production of fresh tomatoes stable until 2025, value rises thanks to increasing diversity

The European production of fresh tomatoes remains stable until 2025, according to the European Commission’s expectation. The value of that stable production…

Cor Pellikaan (PellikaanQ):

"Clip system reduces risk of contamination by 75%"

Currently the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) is in the spotlight. The number of countries where the virus is appearing is growing. The question is how growers,…

This year the growers of Turkestan region are planning to collect over a million tons of vegetables.

Greenhouse production enhancing in Turkestan region of Kazakhstan

The Turkestan region in Kazakhstan supplies about 350 thousand tons of vegetable to the north of the country annually, i.e. 60% of the produce. This year has been fruitful for…

Integrating pesticides with biological control agents: Can it be done?

Raymond Cloyd, Kansas State University, presented Integrating Pesticides with Biological Control Agents: Can It Be Done at the Great Lakes Expo in Grand Rapids. More than 100 attendees…

Belgium: "The ideal area to grow Coeur de Boeuf"

At tomato nursery Den Overkant in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium they are finishing construction of new greenhouse. According to owner Wim Vertommen, the company has now the…

Delphy and Berry Promotions combine their forces

'Strawberry land' gets four extra hectares Soft Fruit Research Center

Recently, the plans for realizing a research center in ‘Soft fruits’ were signed by Delphy. With this, a big step is being taken towards realizing Berry Briljant, an upgrade…

Argus Controls and urban-gro renew strategic agreement

Argus Control Systems Ltd., based in Surrey BC, Canada and urban-gro, Inc. based in Lafayette, CO, USA together announced the renewal of a multi-year strategic agreement to…

Get new vegetable crops off to a good start

For protected vegetable growers, crop change over is an important time. Growers that make a good start will reap the benefits throughout the entire season. Sam…

Special Year Overview 2019

Year overview September 1-15

The rain in Spain

As the summer drew to a close, the effects of climate change became once again apparent, with growers in Spain hit by heavy rains, demolishing 200 hectares of greenhouses.…

The imported produce become more accessible, the experts explain the situation

Ukrainian cucumber doubled in price

The analytics of Info-Shivar have calculated that the wholesale prices on the imported vegetables have decreased, while those of the Ukrainian ones have increased. Thus, the…

until that time Marien will grow tomatoes for another year

Netherlands: Koppert Cress to expand again in 2021

Koppert Cress, the cress grower from Monster, will acquire the greenhouse from tomato grower Marien Verkade from 1 February 2021. The agreement was reached on Tuesday 10…

Henk de Widt, Wilko Fruit:

"Holidays and bad weather hardly cause a revival of Spanish vegetables"

In view of last Friday and Monday's holidays in Spain, it was expected that there would be additional demand for the vegetables from Almeria. According to Henk de Widt of…

US (CA): CDFA awards over $1.1 million in grants for proactive IPM solutions program

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded a total of $1,110,283 funding for three projects to be administered through the Office of Pesticide Consultation…
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Turkey: Hydroponic geothermal greenhouses to be built in Sakarya

Sakarya Mayor Ekrem Yuce announced to the press that they are developing a geothermal hydroponic greenhouse project in Akyazi district of the city and that the project will…

Zimbabwe's HortiFlor Expo 2020 preparations underway

In about 3 months’ time the 2nd edition of HortiFlor, the trade fair for Zimbabwean horticulture, will take place in the capital Harare in the HICC (Harare International…

South Africa: Atlas Copco helps to grow a culture of sustainability at AMCARE and Kwasa College

Atlas Copco sponsored seven vegetable tunnels to four sites at Isaac Makawu Primary School, Setshabelo, AMCARE and Kwasa College with tomato, spinach and beetroot seedlings.…

NVHBP presents itself to Minister Cuong and the business delegation

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam H.E. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Cuong paid a working visit to the Netherlands from 9 to 11 December 2019. The visit of…

September 9-11, The Hague

Event to raise global plant health awareness

Taking up the challenge presented by the United Nations’ International Year of Plant Health, Koppert Biological Systems, CABI and Wageningen University will be organizing an…

Officials from the African Institute for Corporate Citizenship:

Farmers Malawi are urged to turn to horticulture as tobacco market continues to falter

Officials from the African Institute for Corporate Citizenship (AICC) and Dowa District Council chairperson have urged smallholder farmers in Malawi to seriously to consider…

UK: West Shore aquaponics supports urban agriculture, STEM education

Justin Weaver, who teaches a class in West Shore's aquaponics lab, pointed out a new plant variety for local restaurant owner Victoria Close, who came to the lab to buy greens…

Time is ripe for Vietnam's agriculture digitalization

Agriculture enterprises have been quite active in applying innovative solutions to transform towards digitalization in Vietnam. Presence Nutrition, a mobile app developed by…

Inaho - Kamakura

Japanese firm fields autonomous vegetable harvesting robot

Japanese high-tech start-up company Inaho has launched an autonomous robotic harvester that picks greenhouse vegetables. It has also begun leasing the machine to an asparagus…

Marie Haga looks toward the future in latest column

It is with a heavy heart that Marie Haga writes her last Marie’s Corner as Executive Director of the Crop Trust, after having had the privilege of serving the organization for…

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HAS-students temporarily back at BrightBox

Lighting test with basil as useful ‘pastime’

Pim Vingerhoets graduated in Applied Biology and proceeded to do a masters degree in Plant Science at the Wageningen University. As part of his masters, he returned to the HAS…

p2raumdesign presents cold vapour system for fresh products at ExpoSE

"We want to offer the young generation of direct marketers holistic store concepts."

Last year, p2raumdesign won the Innovation Award at expoSE/ExpoDirekt with the brand new LiftBoXX. Exactly one year later, Rainer Palinkasch moved to Karlsruhe again and…

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Netherlands: Setbacks in cultivation caused a loss of millions at A.C. Hartman

A loss of almost 12 million euro in 2018 on a turnover of 30 million euro, a negative equity of 19.7 million euro at the end of 2018 and a large number of…

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