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Automatic whitefly detection and precise short-term tomato yield prediction

Intensive greenhouse vegetable production is increasingly facing a shortage of human labor. At the same time, it is expected to help achieve the goals set in the EU Green…

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Saudi Arabian growers expand into the US, backed by US investors

Saudi Arabia and UAE greenhouse growing company Red Sea Farms is expanding into the US. THe company says their technology, created for desert regions, delivers commercially and…

Sinaloa, a key vegetable growing region in winter and early spring

For Divine Flavor, nothing says fresh more than a sweet and mildly spiced bell pepper, a juicy rich tomato or a fresh crisp cucumber coming from Sinaloa, Mexico. During the…

Birchmeier’s AS 1200 spray blower now also features the CAS battery pack

Air-assisted spraying technology for improved horticultural pest control

The AS 1200 battery-powered spray blower has proven extremely popular on the market and earned Birchmeier Sprühtechnik AG several awards on account of its innovative design.…

Belgium: Cucumber supply peaks later due to high gas prices

Last week, the first cucumbers from traditional cultivation were auctioned at BelOrta. The cucumbers were supplied by grower Wim Joosen of Tuinderij Joosen in Brecht. With…

Dehumidification of greenhouses using less energy

Gas prices have risen sharply in the past year. This is an extra incentive for growers with greenhouses to use less or no gas when growing their crops. A point of attention is…

Supply chain issues a significant concern for Ontario's greenhouse vegetable growers

Ongoing supply chain issues are of significant concern for Ontario’s Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG). With multiple factors coming together throughout the…

Instore tomato promotion at high-end retail in China

“How can we sway Chinese consumers to buy, for the first time, VitaBite tomatoes and also discover their re-purchasing intentions”? With this question, the marketers of…

Dutch growers announces plans in Tunisia

Tomato grower Lans has turned off half of the lights and reduced winter production by 40 percent. The increased prices for tomatoes cannot compensate for the high energy…

Crunchy Lettuce: adding new dimensions to the lettuce category

Food retailers and processing companies are continuously looking for innovation. In that context, Rijk Zwaan has combined the best of two globally popular…

Special Water

Financial support for water measuring system almost ready for sale

Last month, the CE-Line team successfully completed a financing round. The funding from the Netherlands Enabling Water Technology (NEW) fund should help the young company make…

Webinar: ‘How to manage the demand of water in your greenhouse’

On the 10th of February, ErfGoed will host an intriguing webinar for growers. The topic is about one of the most important subjects of all in horticulture, water. Water is…

New year leafy greens depend on oxygen generation systems

The elementary concept of photosynthesis — a plant’s ability to make food and breathe — form the foundation of the modern use of supplemental oxygen in greenhouses to…

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Driscoll’s keeps on working to scale circular plastics economy

Driscoll’s is constantly focusing on increasing the circularity of packaging and landfill diversion of agricultural plastics. It’s the first berry company to…

"GreenTray® allows you to do a 30-minute job in 5 minutes"

IRTA develops a bioreactor that reduces the handling time of in vitro plant cultures by 80%

The Food Research and Technology Institute's (IRTA) in vitro plant cultivation laboratory, part of its Fruit Growing program, has developed a bioreactor designed for the in…


Japan: Meeting high lettuce demand through automated vertical farm production “In Japan, the average age of farmers is over 67 years old. As the birth rate is declining, we believe that Japan's agricultural problems cannot be solved without automation in the future. We, therefore, realized a state-of-the-art vertical farm using Japanese industrial technology. In the future, we intend to adopt the…

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Russian retailer sets new record thanks to improved greenhouse yields

Production facilities of Magnit, one of Russia's retailers, have set a new record by producing almost 360,000 tons of goods in 2021, which is 17% more than in 2020. These…

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Effect of photoconversion greenhouse coatings on tomato heat resistance

The use of photoconversion coatings is a promising approach to improving the quality of light when growing plants in greenhouses in low light conditions. In this work, we…

Time to shed new light on the issue of UK food security?

Yield, taste, and time to harvest can all be impacted by light. Photosynthesis (the process by which plants convert sunlight to biomass) is a bottleneck in agricultural…

David Lobell awarded the 2022 NAS prize in food & agriculture sciences

Climate change requires major adjustments in agricultural techniques that allow traditional crops to growing under extreme conditions. However, developing new…

Grant received to develop crop protection solutions for sub-saharan Africa

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has continued their granted support to AgBiome, funding phase 2 research aimed to develop novel, efficacious, safe, and low…

inVenti+ improves in-vitro plant cultivation

Pöppelmann FAMAC, Pöppelmann TEKU and Lab Associates present inVenti+, a container for in vitro plant cultivation. The innovative laboratory vessel with integrated air filter,…

Paolla da Mota strengthens the BCC team

As part of strengthening the FiberCell segment in the flower, fruit and vegetable sectors, BCC is happy to announce the hiring of Paolla da Mota. With over 18 years of…

Hydroponic strawberry cultivation gaining popularity and providing challenges to Chinese growers

Strawberries are one of the most popular fruits to grow in winter in China. What are the precautions for growing strawberries? The person in charge of Guangzhou Shengsheng…

Buyers compete to purchase Yantai large cherries when they enter the Chinese market

Buyers competed to purchase the large Yantai cherries from a greenhouse in Fushan when they entered the market on the 20th of January. These were the first large Yantai…

"We try to grow our crop as economically as possible"

This year in the Netherlands, Jan Reijm's bell pepper harvest is three weeks late. The grower lowered the temperature in his greenhouse to 16°C and switched the lights off. A…

Water, fuel & fertilizer issues affecting California’s tomato farmers

The supply chain's weak links and California's capricious winter weather are affecting the forecast for the state's processing-tomato farmers. In January 2021,…

Geothermie Nederland

70 Dutch geothermal projects in the pipeline

The current number of 28 Dutch geothermal projects can be expanded to almost 100 projects in the coming years. This is evident from an inventory of Geothermal Netherlands…

AGQ Labs has a new agri-food laboratory in Almeria

The new laboratory of the Andalusian multinational in Palomares, in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, will be fully operational from January 31. This…

Two Dutch growers associations partner to auction cucumbers

In the Netherlands, the Kompany growers association and ZON cooperative have come to an agreement. ZON will sell Kompany's cucumbers at auction. Both…

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"We only had a few hours notice before opening, but we are delighted"

Ireland finally came out of lockdown on Saturday morning at 6am and although the decision was very welcome it came with only 12hrs warning. Hospitality had been on an 8pm…

Advanced Container Technologies, Inc recommends GrowPods

America's food supply is in turmoil, but according to ACTX, there is a solution

Advanced Container Technologies, Inc said it has a solution to fix America's food problem, which, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported, is in turmoil. With the current…

Dutch pavilion heading for 75% occupancy, different fresh to tech ratio

What do Dutch and Belgian fruit and vegetable companies expect from Fruit Logistica 2022?

This year's Fruit Logistica is planned for Tuesday to Thursday, April 5-7. We gauged the mood of previous Dutch and Belgian exhibitors leading up to the show. Do they hope to…

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