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Key Account Manager | Fresh Produce | Hamburg

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Christiaan Rijnhout (Roamler): "After introducing the Berry Monitor, there was an immediate demand for a Tomato Monitor"

All the European tomato world's data in one up-to-date dashboard

What kinds of tomatoes are in stores? What is the price per kilo, origin, packaging form, and size? The Berry Monitor is a great success. So, Roamler - a crowdsourcing…

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Key Account Manager | Fresh Produce | Hamburg

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US: Mastronardi Produce eyes expansion in Central America

Mastronardi Produce is eyeing a new market in which to develop clusters of controlled agriculture partnerships and facilities. The first of such endeavors includes an…

Signify acquires Fluence

ams OSRAM announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Fluence horticulture lighting systems business and brand to Signify for an agreed purchase price…

Precision hydroponic dosing to optimize the performance of recirculating systems

“We have rewritten the software several times to strengthen its algorithms and give the system a very flexible and scalable framework for both hardware and software…

Gotham Greens

Hydroponic greenhouse gets $140K as incentive to build in Windsor

Windsor's town board on Tuesday unanimously approved a $140,000 incentive package to help attract a $17 million commercial indoor hydroponic farming operation to the Great…

Vertify offers demonstration space for digital horticultural techniques

Yesterday, Jeroen Sanders from Vertify, Egon Janssen from TNO, and Annie van der Riet from the Hortivation foundation signed an agreement to work together more intensively.…

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Vegepolys Valley international business event to take place in France

The VIBE is the International Business Convention of the SIVAL, the World-class Trade Fair for Plant Production Techniques. This fair will take place on the 11th, 12th, and…

Video Tomatoes with high-tech doppelgängers

Predicting the future of a tomato plant: Willem Jan Knibbe, Jochem Evers, Sjoerd Boersma and colleagues are trying to achieve this by building a digital twin of the plant.…

The Narwhal

"For migrant farmworkers in Ontario, COVID-19 made a bad situation worse"

In a recent article in The Narwhal by Hilary Beaumont, the horticulture industry in Canada is criticized for not taking care of the migrant farmworkers in Ontario. In fall…

Henk van Dam, former Globe Plant customer, now at the service of customers

Since November 1, Henk van Dam has been employed by Globe Plant as a relationship manager. The company from the Dutch municipality of Vierpolders is not new to him, as…

"Dutch government takes big risks with gas policy"

This week, experts told Nieuwsuur that the supply of gas to gas-intensive sectors in the Netherlands could be under threat this winter. Glastuinbouw Nederland…

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"When customers want a certain tomato flavor, then the greenhouse will grow tomatoes with that flavor"

Explore the largest smart greenhouse in Asia

Tomato plants in the Dezhou Kaisheng Haofeng Smart Farm are truly towering. Some plants are more than 20 meters tall. Not only, as also their production volumes are huge. Each…

Special Year Overview

10 partnerships from September

Due to the growth in the horticultural industry, both growers and suppliers feel the urge to join in the rat race and upscale their business. September was no different than…

RL 40 is GNA srl's proposal to the demand for resealable packaging

Filling and closing trays has never been so simple

Italy's GNA is launching RL 40, a resealable packaging that fits the current trend in the fresh-cut sector. The packaging which seals in a simple, effective way is the goal of…

Effects of selenium and iodine biofortification of hydroponic lettuce

The iodine (I) and selenium (Se) deficiencies affect approximately 30% and 15%, respectively, of the global population. The biofortification of vegetables is a valid way to…

Total number of greenhouses at 925

Egyptian governor reveals surface area of cultivated land in South Sinai

The governor of South Sinai, Khaled Fouda, has announced that the total area of cultivated land in the desert governorate has reached 31,000 feddans (13,000…

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UK: London foodbank opens greenhouse

For Luis Reyes, growing fresh produce to help feed the hungry is a "dream come true." Reyes, an agronomist hailing from Chile, is the lead gardener for the London Food Bank's greenhouse…

Further steps needed to make vegetables and fruit production more sustainable

Government and the business community are working towards making the production of potatoes, vegetables and fruit (AGF) more sustainable. Progress is being made here, but…

Conservation of genetic diversity of tomatoes

Among the main problems encountered with crop plants, the most important one is represented by genetic erosion. At world level this issue has been debated…

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Grow-NY competition offers glimpse of future ag tech

A company that makes and markets allergen-free food took the $1 million top prize at this year’s Grow-NY competition. But other companies that won lesser awards are working on…

Seipasa expands its biopesticide production plant in Valencia

Seipasa, a Spanish company specialized in the development and formulation of bioinsecticides, biofungicides, and biostimulants for agriculture has expanded its biopesticide…

Dutch strawberry grower pitches housing plan for 350 workers

Last week in the Netherlands, construction started on a new 12-hectare greenhouse at the Royal Berry strawberry farm. This acreage increase requires more workers. And grower…

WUR provides insight into course of action for the period 2022-2025

Ten years ago, five Dutch research institutes began formalizing a partnership. Between September 2020 and March 2021, the five institutes, including TNO, WUR and Deltares,…

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Research conducted on ultra-deep geothermal drilling

Geothermal drilling has now become commonplace in the Netherlands, but no one has ever drilled deeper than four kilometers. A consortium wants to change this. In the Dutch…

"Implementing control against greenhouse whitefly in strawberry crops still certainly effective"

The pressure from the greenhouse whitefly on covered strawberry crops is still quite high, reports Bayer. Honeydew on leaves and fruits is causing problems…

Syngenta Group China and Anhui Jianghuai Horticulture reached a cooperation intention

Recently, China National Seed Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China National Seed Group"), a subsidiary of Syngenta Group's China Seed Business Unit, and Anhui…

Australia–United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement signed

The Australia–United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) was signed on 17 December 2021. The A-UKFTA will deliver mutual benefits and create a closer and…

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Insects retain more heavy pesticides, and for long than previously thought

Insects appear to hold on to much heavier crop protection agents, and for longer than was previously thought. German scientists found an average of 16 pesticides per area on…

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