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GreenTech

Edwin Vanlaerhoven, Certhon, on autonomous food systems:

"Robots are at the beginning of their potential, while greenhouse workers are at their zenith"

Robotization has been a key development in the greenhouse industry in recent years. With the recent investment by Japanese car part giant DENSO, Dutch agtech company Certhon…

Vacancies:

Wageningen University & Research

New testing method available for Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)

Prime Diagnostics, part of Wageningen University & Research, has developed a new antiserum that can specifically detect Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) in infected…

Test in VF-cell brings cultivation on Growfoam substrate closer

Hydroponic growing is known to be clean and sustainable, this also applies to the foam substrates of Growfoam. Currently Growfoam is investing heavily into the development of…

VB Group

Video A closer look inside the new facilities of VB

The first digital version of the Greentech took place last week. For that occasion, Ilse took the visitor for a tour inside VB's new office building covered by a greenhouse…

Partnership with Roam Technology:

CAN (ON): Huwa-San and Sili-Fert P added to product range Global Horticultural Inc

Global Horticultural Inc. (4222 Sann Road, Beamsville, ON) is a Canadian company that offers horticultural supplies and equipment to growers across North America. The company…

Carlos Madariaga on Berries Paradise’s raspberry and blueberry season

“Consumers have been demanding higher-quality and premium berries”

While the Mexican season for blueberries and raspberries started a few weeks ago, October is the time of the year that the volumes start to ramp up. For Berries Paradise,…

CE-Line follows up GreenTech Award win with field tests at growers

Last Tuesday, CE-Line received the GreenTech Innovation Concept Award for their CELINE technology. CEO WIlco Dijkstra is happy: "Irrigation water with flavor is coming, we are…

Canada watches new federal import restrictions on lettuce

‘California growers should test lettuce for E. coli - or keep it’

Companies that import lettuce must now prove each shipment has been tested for E. coli, or was grown outside of California's Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San…

NL Embassy in UA

Ukraine: Opportunity for suppliers of goods and services for the berry sector

Would you like to make your company known in Ukraine? Ukraine’s growing sector of berry production offers many possibilities for the suppliers of goods and services. International Trade…

The First Ceres-FC substrate unit in the Netherlands is for The Green East

Research centrum The Green East in the Dutch town of Raalte is a testing facility with testing greenhouses in the Netherlands. The company is the first Dutch company to…

Credit Suisse partners with Equilibrium

Credit Suisse Asset Management will partner with Equilibrium to expand the resources through which each of them is able to make capital available to industries…

Special Management

New coloring agent NUCOLOR improves fruit appearance and quality

Shandong Yingyangyuan Food Technology Co., Ltd. is a company active in the fruit fresh-keeping industry. In continuous communication with customers, the company learned that…

Yan Linyun Xinhua News Agency

A plastic greenhouse arises in the suburbs of Beijing

Recently, the first smart plastic greenhouse has been built in the suburbs of Beijing. With the help of 14 agricultural IoT technologies such as intelligent controls and…

Dake Rechsand

"Organic farming is critical to UAE's food security"

In 2019, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) noted that 52 million people in the MENA region were chronically undernourished. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with climate…

MAIL Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Investment support lasts in construction of greenhouses in Balkh

A project of the Ministry of Agriculture of Afghanistan continues to support private sector investments in creating greenhouses for vegetable production in Balkh province. In…

Hort Americas

The role of silicon as a nutrient in hydroponic recipes

Silicon (also known as silica, Si) is found in high quantities in open field production but is absent in hydroponic nutritional recipes. The lack of knowledge about the role…
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Penn State

Grafting with epigenetically-modified rootstock yields surprise

Novel grafted plants — consisting of rootstock epigenetically modified to “believe” it has been under stress — joined to an unmodified scion, or above-ground shoot, give rise…

Archisen

Vertical farms keep popping up in Singapore

An urban farm that aims to produce high yield greens without sacrificing any flavour by leveraging Internet of Things technology was officially launched on Thursday (Oct 22).…

Netafim South Africa

Irrigation systems for undercover cropping

A quick look at ‘irrigation systems’ on the Internet reveals a bewildering array of options. They include the older technologies, the latest ones, and others under development…

Akualogix

Singapore's Akualogix makes the case for vertical urban shrimp farming

While the notion of vertical aquaculture may seem counter-intuitive at first, it has certainly begun to take root in the city of Singapore, where space is at a premium and the…

Australia: Labour Scheme Facilitator final project report

The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) has evolved from 50 Tongan workers who arrived in February 2009 to more than 13,000 workers from 10 Pacific nations in…

Aleksandar Mijatovic | Dreamstime.com

Ireland: €9m investment in horticulture sector scheme for capital grants

The Irish Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Horticulture, Senator Pippa Hackett, has announced the…

Illuminum Greenhouses

"Why you need to farm using a greenhouse"

Farming has continuously evolved from the simple methods to modern day use of machinery and other technologies such as greenhouses. There are certain questions that pop up…

Thomas Louveau

New research sheds light on complex genetic and metabolic traits in plants

Numerous examples of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) have been discovered in plant genomes, but little is known about the formation of these important examples of gene…

Human Agricultural Co-Operative

US (IN): Local nonprofit gets ready to build a year-round greenhouse

The Human Agricultural Cooperative is getting ready to build an all-year-round greenhouse to help with food insecurity within the community. The Human Agricultural Cooperative…

AAFC

Canada: Community greenhouses replace some veggie imports

When it takes 30 hours by diesel truck to bring in fresh vegetables, buyers know the product won’t be fresh. And high prices — like $9 for a chunk of bok choy cabbage — are a…

US (OR): Hawthorne Hydroponics leases 378,000 sq.ft. industrial facility

Hawthorne Hydroponics has signed a long-term lease to occupy a newly constructed 378,000-square-foot industrial building at Blue Lake Corporate Park in…

Ceres

Australia: City farming on rise as people rethink how they source their food

Urban farmer Rachel Rubenstein thinks the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down major cities, state and international borders, is a chance to rethink where we get our food…

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KETOS closes $18 million in Series B funding

KETOS has closed on $18 million in financing. The round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with participation from Citi and Illuminated Funds Group as new…

Oro Agri taken over by Rovensa

Oro Agri, known for the orange oil growers use all over the world as an insecticide and fungicide, is being taken over by Rovensa Group. The group of suppliers of biological crop…

Netherlands: Marco Geeratz new general director Joop Alsemgeest Installatie

After having started his company more than 30 years, Joop Alsemgeest of the similarly named installation company decided to take it easy and spend more time on his hobbies. As…

StC and AGF-Holland

Two Dutch companies join forces to market sustainable fruit and vegetable Johannes packaging range

In February this year, Jan van der Kaden of StC International phoned Johannes Janssen of AGF Holland. Jan wanted to showcase Johannes' packaging line of the same name. That…

Few consider provenance to be important factor

New study suggests 4 in 5 Canadians willing to pay extra for “locally grown” produce

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting supply chains and impacting food purchasing habits, Canadian households were expected to spend $12,667 on food during 2020.  Following…

Experts predict increase in global potato consumption

Ukrainian Cabinet approves development programs for vegetable production

Ukrainian Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture, Ihor Petrashko, says the Cabinet has adopted a target program for the development of…

SABIC and Schwarz Group to bring circular PE vegetable bags to German shops

Saudi petrochemicals player SABIC and the Schwarz Group, a European retail store operator, have signed a deal to roll out transparent film bags made from…

"The biggest advantage would be having the ability to grow tomatoes in areas with radioactive contamination"

Spanish scientists identify the tomato gene involved in the accumulation of cesium

A study led by researchers from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has identified a tomato gene that is involved in the accumulation of…

4G real-time data loggers are about to enter the market

A growing number of regions abandon their 2G networks and join 4G networks instead. The growing Internet of Things also leads to greater requirements from temperature data…

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