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“Technique should be at the service of the plant and the requested end product”

Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen many conventional greenhouse vegetable suppliers add the growing medicinal cannabis industry to their business. The consultants of…

Vacancies:

Codema and Gideon de Jager part ways

Codema announces to go into the future without commercial director Gideon de Jager. De Jager had worked for Codema for a total of 17 years. During these years, De Jager has…

VDH Foliekassen acquired by AgrowSer

AgrowSer Foliekassen has just signed an agreement to acquire VDH Foliekassen, a developer and builder of high-quality foil greenhouses from Hazerswoude-Dorp. Both companies…

Putting the grower first in crop protection

The goal of a Texas based horticultural technology start up is to help the world thrive with healthier harvests, and to help growers reach that goal John Appel, president of…

Teaching a robot to harvest tomatoes

​Harvesting a pepper or a tomato, removing a leaf; simple actions, you would think. But programming a robot in a way that it can do this is almost impossible. That is why the…

USDA Secretary visits Orlando-based indoor farm

On Monday, June 8th, Kalera welcomed Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to its Orlando facility. Secretary Perdue was greeted by Kalera’s top executives, including CEO…

Spain

5 greenhouses with 18,000 cannabis plants discovered in Malaga

In the municipality of Cajiz, a hamlet in the Axarquía region, National Police officers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever discovered in the province of Malaga,…

Sylvie Recouvrot, Midiflore:

“France offers a promising market for edible flowers”

Among its range of colorful products, Midiflore currently offers zucchini flowers. The company is specialized in the production of aromatic herbs and edible flowers. “We…

new online News & Inspiration Portal: v

"Via crossovers the best possible solutions"

Viscon Group is proud to introduce a new online News & Inspiration Portal at www.wehaveanidea.eu. After decades of designing, innovating, and building projects, Viscon Group…

Special webinars & online education

webinar June 17th

"Crop level measurements provide growers with additional insights"

Together with 2Grow the team with 30MHZ organises a webinar on the 17th of June. 2Grow specialises in crop level measurements such as sap flow and a diameter variation.…

Dutch tomato breeder back after bankruptcy

The first interested parties already registered on May 1, when the bankruptcy of tomato breeding company Green4Health B.V. was declared, and now there is good…

"Advantages of vertical farming greater in Southern European countries”

Agriculture is best described as the exploitation of soil in an industrial way to cultivate crops. An agriculture area might look natural but is, in fact,…
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Tomsk Polytechnic University

Use of glass ceramics in greenhouse lamps facilitate plants' growth

Bright pink lights are used for providing sufficient lighting to house plants. Similar lamps are also used by farmers in greenhouses. Still, specialists in photo physiology…

Production of tomato and pepper hybrid seed pilot

The head of Iran's horticultural research institute, Shokrolla Haji-vand, said that in the field of vegetables and summer seeds, which are considered to be within the…

Sunway to build Malaysia's first urban farming innovation hub

In conjunction with World Environment Day, Sunway today has announced that it will build a 50,000 sq ft urban farming innovation hub, Sunway FutureX which will be completed in…

Figures of greenhouse vegetables in Russia

According to the operational data of the regional agro-industrial complex management bodies, as of June 2, 573.8 thousand tons of vegetables were harvested in winter…

Cleanfarms

Canadian growers returned nearly 5.5 million containers to Cleanfarms in 2019

Cleanfarms has released its 2019 Annual Report showing that Canadian farmers are strengthening their commitment to land, water and air stewardship by returning ag-plastic…

strengthening the North American presence

Biotalys expanded executive team and established US headquarters

Biotalys NV, a food and crop protection company, today announced the expansion of its executive team and establishment of its new U.S. headquarters for…

US: Labor on specialty crop farms: 39 percent of total costs

Some types of farms rely more on farm labor than others. According to data from USDA’s Agricultural Resources Management Survey, hired farm labor (including…

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USDA proposes changes in handling requirements for Florida tomatoes

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing changes to the handling requirements under the federal marketing order for tomatoes grown in Florida. The…

US imported 15% less fruit and vegetables in April

In April, when the corona crisis really took hold of the United States, imports of fresh fruits and vegetables fell sharply (15%) compared to the same month in previous years.…

The strawberry punnet reinvented

"Help me become more sustainable." This is the assignment that kicked off the collaboration between Dutch fruit grower Gijs van Herk, and packaging company Fonkels. Annually,…

15-meter-high aquaponics plant to be built in Chemnitz

Aquaponics in the big city

The corner building at Peterstraße 28 was in a miserable condition in 2012, and demolition was imminent. Angelika Scheuerl, who has been running the socio-pedagogical care service…

"If we don't do something about the food system, we're not going to be able to sustainably feed people"

Predictions that fresh produce GMO crops could be a long-term solution in Australia's food industry

One of Australia's leading 'Food Futurists' sees an increased future for genetically modified (GMO) and genetically edited organisms in global food production, as the industry…

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Russian Federation

Imports of Turkish greenhouse vegetables rose to 29,300 tons at the start of 2020

The volume of supplies of greenhouse vegetables from Turkey to the Russian market at the beginning of 2020 amounted to 29,300 tons, or $ 28 million. Analysts…

Tray sealing shows its green credentials

Tray sealing specialist Proseal says that while maximising speed and efficiencies are still the key requirements for the packing of fresh produce, the quest for these can also…

Chris Van Lennep

‘No justification for vegetable pricing structure in South Africa’

Some South African fresh produce farmers are opting to plough their produce back into the ground rather than sending it to national fresh produce markets due to the low prices…

Week of May 31st retail sales

Top three growth items in terms of dollar gains were cherries, berries and lettuce

During the last week of May, restaurants in many states had started to reopen dine-in facilities with social distancing measures in place, with subsequent improvements in…

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