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JASA Packaging opens second North America office

"US shows a strong demand for flexible and innovative packaging lines for greenhouse-grown produce"

In response to fast-growing demand and a desire to be located close to customers’ facilities, JASA Packaging has expanded with a second office in North America. The…

Ecoation expands its offerings into the soft fruit and berry market

Consumer demand for fresh, locally-grown berries has never been higher, and many greenhouse operators in Canada and throughout North America have recently been seen switching…

"We are definitely seeing more and more growers turn to biodegradable products"

Based in the Loire-Atlantique department of western France, BV Dis develops and markets professional solutions for the European horticulture market. Created by Joel Bonneau…

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The world's largest strawberry

This week, an enormous strawberry grown in Israel has entered the Guinness Book of Records. Weighing an impressive 289 grams, the strawberry was cultivated using Haifa Group’s…

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Dutch high-tech greenhouses catch attention of investors from outside sector

Advances in protected cropping technology, particularly in semi-closed greenhouses and control systems based on artificial intelligence, enable nurseries to be built and crops…

Video Growing cucumbers efficiently under LED

At Botany Group in Meterik, growers and researchers are joining forces to achieve ever better results with growing under LED lighting. How did the crops survive the winter?  Experts…

Visuality on the market is to be strengthened

Dennis Seriese joins Bachmann Plantec

Dennis Seriese starts as new Sales Manager for the Netherlands and Belgium at Bachmann Plantec from 01.03.2022. In this role, he represents the internationally…

Ontario’s Greenhouse vegetable growers are committed to a transition plan for the TFWIRC

This week the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) learned that effective June 30, the City of Windsor will no longer lead the Isolation and Recovery…

Fertilizer producer Rosier in dire straits

Fertilizer manufacturer Rosier, active among other things with liquid fertilizers for greenhouse farming, is having a hard time financially. In recent days,…

Vegetable prices are also impacted by the current global economy trend

Thanks to its particular pedoclimatic conditions, the coastal area in the south of Sicily, Italy, is one of the most fertile areas in Europe. In this area, the company CVF srl,…

AGCulture, a new member of the Club of 100

AGCulture, a business unit of AGC providing solutions for greenhouses, has joined the Club of 100. This club has been initiated by Wageningen University &…

First beefsteak tomatoes kick off BelOrta's new tomato season

BelOrta has its first beefsteak tomatoes of the season. Wim and Brecht Vertommen of the 'Den Overkant' farm presented these to the Belgian cooperative. "Thanks to their unique…

Hoogendoorn receives Sival D'or Innovation award for their process computer IIVO

This week Hoogendoorn Growth Management attended the SIVAL trade show for agriculture and horticulture, in Angers, France. With 700 exhibitors and 26,000 professional visitors…

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China: Automated rock wool seedling and planting technology

Shanghai Nongsheng is an automation equipment integrator in China, and the company cooperates with many horticultural equipment suppliers in the Netherlands. It introduces…

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India: agtech company wins patent for solar-powered IoT precision farming device

Fasal, an Indian agtech solutions company, announced that it has won a patent for its innovative solar-powered IoT device for precision farming — Fasal Kranti. The patent,…

Laurens Maartens (StoneX):

"We don't only take care of payments, we also help clients hedge their commodities"

Global markets are currently under tremendous pressure. Political unrest, manufacturer consolidation, unprecedentedly high raw material costs, and an increasingly volatile…

A visit to Jones Food Company

Video UK: "Building our own plant factories allows us to compete with imported produce"

The Scunthorpe farm has been set up in 2018, and ever since, JFC has never turned the system off off the lights of production. It took CEO James Lloyd Jones about 1.5 years to…

Vici grant for WUR research on stress in plants

Wageningen scientist is awarded a prestigious Vici grant for his research on plants and how they deal with stress. The Vici grant for researcher Louis de Smet was previously…

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South Korean farmers grow more perilla leaf with machine learning

Smart farm solution built on Amazon Web Services helps small-scale farmers increase production of one of the country's most popular cooking ingredients. Every day, for years,…

Phil Campbell greenhouse gives plants, students room to grow

Since the first week of February, students at Phil Campbell High School have been busy in the school’s greenhouse – growing vegetables and flowers and also cultivating their…

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RII welcomes new producer-partners for USDA-funded CEA project

The Resource Innovation Institute (RII) welcomes its latest round of producer-partners planning to benchmark their energy- and water-efficiency performance…

Martin Emmett elected Chair of NFU’s Horticulture and Potatoes Board

Tristram Plants Director, Martin Emmett, has been elected as the new chair of the NFU Horticulture and Potatoes board. Martin is the first grower from the ornamental sector to…

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Stimulating the horticultural sector to take action towards a 'Conscious Planet'.

The Indian Yogi and visionary Sadhguru meets with the Dutch horticultural sector on Tuesday morning March 22. Focus of this meeting lies on the Conscious Planet – Save Soil…

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Our trial growing #cucumbers in greenhouses in the #UAE were a huge success! RDI’s system extended harvest by 1 month and produced 2 tons more cucumbers per #greenhouse than…

Marcel van Rooijen, Trofi:

"Who will expose the shipping companies forming cartels?"

Last month, Dutch fruit importer, Marcel van Rooijen, expressed his surprise at shipping companies' margins here. He is, once again, sounding the alarm. "It…

Hydro Hunter Italia:

Finding water in the subsoil with innovative drones

"In just under 20 minutes, we manage to scan the subsoil of a large plot, identifying the presence of water up to a depth of 250 meters thanks to electromagnetic probes. In…
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ASEAN and the Middle East remain primary Australian fresh vegetable export destinations throughout 2021

With cumulating pressure from rising farm input costs, labor shortages, operational constraints, international shipping backlogs and expensive freight costs, Australian…

More than 850 greenhouses were put into use in Tianjin, China

The fruit and vegetable greenhouses from the Dehu Crop Planting Cooperative in Shuangjie Town, Beichen District in Tianjin have been busy for days, with more than 100 workers…

TBV Kühlfahrzeuge continues development of electric cooling solutions

"Refrigerated vehicles can be kept at service temperatures thanks to modern e-cooling systems"

In times of rapidly rising fuel prices, sustainable drive types, above all electric drive, are rapidly gaining in importance. Willstätt-based vehicle supplier TBV Ltd foresaw…

Recyclable foam turns furniture and horticulture into circular industries

As consumers, we depend on foam. It is used in large quantities in mattresses, chairs and sofas, but unfortunately it is often not sustainable. The Groningen scale-up…

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