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Simply Fresh

Exploring opportunities in Indian horticulture

"It's not about high tech, it's about the right tech"

India is a huge market for fresh produce. With its population of almost 1.5 billion, a third of whom are vegetarian, it makes a lot of sense to build vegetable greenhouses…

Vacancies:

Disinfecting with ToBRFV: "Do not hold back, keep things thoroughly drenched"

No grower wants contamination, but in spite of the best precautions it is still possible that the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) strikes. By now, there is experience…

Flavorite

Flavorite merges three business entities into single group

Flavorite has announced the merger of their three business entities (Flavorite Hydroponic Tomatoes Pty Ltd, Flavourwave Pty Ltd and Flavorite Marketing Pty Ltd) into one…

Unmanned system lifts up vertical farming to the next level

SANANBIO, one of the world’s largest indoor farming technology providers announces the availability of its unmanned vertical farming system, a.k.a. UPLIFT, to growers…

Piet Rensen (PDI) 65, but he is far from done:

"Suddenly the chef pulled a gun from under his apron"

He raises his hand to just above his head: "Two meters leg height used to be high, but nowadays six meters is already common." Piet Rensen will be with Peter Dekker…

Wheel loader + Telehandler = Telescopic loader

Greenhouse demolition contractors are economical with their building materials. Everything must be stacked neatly and able to be loaded into the truck. That is important for…

Exclusive partnership TeaL Agro Technologies and Agratechniek BV

TeaL Agro Technologies BV (Enkhuizen) and Agratechniek BV (Anna Paulowna) signed an exclusive partnership for process integrated drying systems in the automated encrustment…

Wendy's Canada introduces greenhouse-grown lettuce in full Canadian menu

As part of its ongoing commitment to quality, sustainability and food safety, Wendy's is expanding its greenhouse-grown fresh produce portfolio by introducing 100 per cent…

US (TX): Kalera to open Texas’ largest vertical farming facility in Houston

Kalera announced that it will open a new state-of-the-art growing facility in Houston, Texas in the spring of 2021. The new Houston facility — which will be the largest…

"We are heading for a 'gray' season"

Recovery European tomato market did not continue

The longest day has passed, but the tomato production is still high. Not only in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also in all other European markets the local productions are…

Special Greenhouse Construction

over 20 hectares of peppers

Second phase of Leamington project almost completed

Under Sun Acres was founded by Leamington-based bell pepper grower Chris Del Greco in 2017. That same year the start was made for the construction of a 10 hectares high tech…

USDA

US: Additional commodities eligible for Coronavirus food assistance program

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced an initial list of additional commodities that have been added to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and that…

Biochemical response of Oakleaf lettuce seedlings to different concentrations of metaloid oxide nanoparticles

Nanoparticles (NPs) significantly modify the physiological functions and metabolome of plants. The purpose of a recent study was to investigate the effect of CeO2, Fe2O3,…
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Protecting raspberries and strawberries

Harmful insects and high temperatures are two of the obstacles that berry fruits producers most face in summer, since they risk compromising crop quality, while creating…

Work programme and 2019 results of NIAB EMR WET Centre

The WET Centre demonstrates ‘Best Practice’ in irrigation and fertigation technology in strawberry. Much of the technology on show has been developed by AHDB and other funded…

Liesbeth Everaert

Watching plant evolution on historical paintings

The plants we eat often look very different from their wild ancestors. In an interdisciplinary collaboration, Prof. Ive De Smet (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology)…

Tyfu Cymru

Webinar on Sep 28 12:00 PM - Zoom

Peat free horticulture - why and how?

Political and commercial pressures are increasing to cease the use of peat for horticulture crop production. Defra is due to publish its peat strategy later in 2020, which may…

an Indian four-leaf clover

Clover ventures: greenhouse farming built out of coffee estate

Clover Ventures was started by childhood friends Avinash BR, Gururaj Rao, Arvind Murali, and Santhosh Narasipura, who grew up in Bengaluru, went their own ways…

Plant responses to UV blocking greenhouse covers

Pure polyethylene (PE) is enriched with several additives to make it a smart application material in protected cultivation, as a cover material for either…

Smart agriculture main theme International 'Siberian Agrarian Week'

From November 11 to 13, leading manufacturers and distributors will present the best solutions for efficient agriculture in the pavilions of the Novosibirsk…

Host specificity of endophytic fungi in tomato

To understand the distribution of the cultivable fungal community in plant tissues from nature farming tomato plants, in a recent study researchers sampled plants of seven…

Vegetable pollination guides

eOrganic is making available eight introductory pollination guides for common vegetable crops, developed by Hannah Swegarden of Cornell University as part of the NOVIC…

FiBL

Beate Huber new FiBL president

Urs Niggli, the long-standing Director of FiBL Switzerland, has retired and resigned as president of FiBL Europe, which is based in the EU capital Brussels. FiBL Europe…

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Walmart will unveil Walmart+ later this month

Costco: June sales rose 11% to $16.2bln

US: Earth Fare is back in businessA group of investors that purchased 4 Earth Fare supermarkets in a bankruptcy auction earlier this year plans to open a new store in…

USDA

Ending during the period of 07/04 to 07/16

USDA - advertised prices for specialty crops at major retail supermarket outlets

According to the latest USDA report, almost all retailers opted to publish an ad this week, with just under 2% of regularly reported stores opting to withhold ads due to the…

Morocco launches a new agricultural development strategy to double exports

Morocco has launched its new agricultural development strategy, 'Génération Green 2020-2030', with which it plans to improve the country's Gross Domestic Product and double…

Creative with fruit and veg 2.0

Fruit and vegetables are tasty and healthy, but you can do much more with them than just eat them. In the video below we see a true fruit and vegetable artist, preparing the most…

C.H. Robinson joins forces with Microsoft to digitally transform supply chain

C.H. Robinson and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced they are joining forces to digitally transform supply chains of the future by combining the power of…

Forest Starr & Kim Starr

Sea vegetables could become important new source of nutrition

According to aquaculture experts in Florida, in the future, sea vegetables could provide a tasty source of nutrition. The native Florida vegetables that grow…

2020 produce sales up 9% over last year’s Fourth of July week

During the week ending July 5, elevated everyday plus holiday demand drove gains of +9.1% for fresh produce — higher than the week prior, but not as high as Father’s Day.…

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