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TikTok video craze continues to affect global cucumber markets

The trend in many countries at this time is that cucumber prices are trending higher. A recent TikTok video craze has also led to higher consumption in…

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Finland: Grower makes money by participating in demand response energy market

Bigro is a vegetable grower in the heart of Finland, whose operations include over 140,000 m2 of fields used for grain and another 42,000 m2 dedicated…

New Zealand Prime Minister visits LeaderBrand

"We wouldn't hesitate to give him a job"

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon last week walked around LeaderBrand's Future Farm Facility and checked out their self-sustaining 40…

Two female directors of South African Dukathole Farm

Combining food production with educational opportunities

Ten years ago, Nkanyiso Ngubane and Nothando Shangase started Dukathole Farm. In New Hanover, in KwaZulu-Natal, South-Africa, they grow open field and…

Syngenta Biologicals

Digital screening to detect the subtle effects and their timing

Syngenta, a global agrochemical company, has significantly increased its investment in biostimulants to align with evolving regulatory changes aimed at…

Combimetal Carrera

Planting of 12 new hectares of soilless strawberry plants

It is the time of year for the installation of multi-layered, above-ground strawberry plantations. These are designed and manufactured by the Italian…

Strawberry production expansion planned in Stepnogorsk, Kazakhstan

In Stepnogorsk, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov visited LLP "Greenhouse Technologies of Kazakhstan" and reviewed the production capacities of one of the…

UK: Import checks on medium-risk fruit and vegetables delayed again

Last Friday (13 September), the government extended the easement of import checks on medium-risk fruit and vegetables imported from the EU from January 2025 to…

VBT figures week 36

Fall in cucumber price, rise in tomato and strawberry prices

With the start of September, the sky-high cucumber prices on the clocks at the VBT auctions have dropped. The mid price fell back to 69 euro cents each in week…

James Lonsdale – The SPAR Group Ltd

GlobalG.A.P Changemaker award recognises rural farming project in Limpopo

The SPAR Group has been steadily and discreetly re-conceptualising their own fresh supply chain, with their efforts voted the winner of the retail…

Special Starting Material

Rijk Zwaan celebrates 100 years

Open Field and Hydroponic Demo to kick off next week

From September 16th, Rijk Zwaan is ready to welcome industry professionals to their hydroponic station and open field demo in the Netherlands. This…

Impact of aviation workers' strike on fruit transport in Kenya

In Kenya, the aviation sector experienced a significant disruption when hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) initiated a strike.…

September 17-19, 2024

Online Public Auction of agricultural equipment from Sun Valley Floral Farms

Tauber-Arons, Inc, a business in industrial auctions, announces a 3-day online-only auction from September 17-19, 2024. This auction will feature a…

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Frustrated resident throws rotten produce at noisy cars

In Rorschach, Switzerland, where the roar of car engines has driven the locals to the edge, one resident has gone full fruit ninja—but without the…

UK: Boosting bio-energy by accelerated willow cuttings through aeroponics

"Deploying an aeroponic system to grow willow cuttings for biomass production is massively reducing the crop cycles in comparison to deploying in open…

NL: "The aim is to create a new standard to cultivate fresh produce in a future-proof way"

"We combine the best of both worlds, deploying indoor farming techniques in a greenhouse setting. The result is a method that maximizes yield while…

Georgian agriculture scientists receive hydroponics training from experts

A group of Israeli agro-experts held a two-day training on modern agricultural production issues. Many Georgian agriculture scientists as well as…

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BHK Greenhouse Serbia

Another successful project added to our "done ✔ " list. Please, take a moment to look and admire to this marvel of engineering.These scenes are why we do what we do and enjoy…

A multimodal deep learning approach for classifying tomato leaf diseases.

Manual identification of tomato leaf diseases is a time-consuming and laborious process that may lead to inaccurate results without professional…

Ethiopian horticulture trade suffers from rising costs

"Ethiopia's lucrative horticulture trade could stumble as exporters transfer rising production and research and development costs to their products,…

Can a robot operated greenhouse fuel future lunar astronauts?

Continuous human habitation of the Moon is the state aim of many major space-faring nations in the coming decades. Reaching that aim requires many…

Nigerian tomato farmers struggling without storage facilities

Bula, a small agricultural hub nestled within the expansive plains of Akko Local Government Area, Gombe State, is known for its vast fields of tomatoes…