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Grow Group Azerbaijan reaches 50 kg per sq.m milestone in 2020

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"It’s no secret that urban areas include food deserts"

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Arthur van Marrewijk, product specialist at Syngenta:

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Optimise production by plant load management

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SunFed starts harvesting in Sinaloa

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The Mexican bell pepper season kicked off on time this year. Felix Peralta, Director of Integrated Logistics at SunFed shares: “Our bell peppers are grown in Sinaloa, in the…

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Hamburg-based start-up &ever makes big strides in Kuwait

"Up to 550 kg of lettuce per day thanks to faster growth cycles"

Instead of traveling 5,000 kilometers between German growing areas and consumers, lettuce from vertical farming company &ever in Kuwait travels less than 100 kilometers. With…

Turkish tomatoes grown in geothermal greenhouses exported to Germany and UK

Tomatoes grown in geothermal greenhouses in the district of Sandikli in Afyonkarahisar (Turkey) with hydroponic production are exported to big cities domestically and to many…

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Research into organic residues as potting soil constituents

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