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Accountmanager Midden- en Zuid-Amerika - Bleiswijk

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Seedless snack peppers latest result of change in breeding programme

Snack peppers have been a growth segment for years. New in this segment is a red seedless snack pepper by Eminent Seeds, which will be available on the shelves year-round for the…

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Accountmanager Midden- en Zuid-Amerika - Bleiswijk

Aruba taking first steps to food self-sufficiency with new greenhouse

Aruba is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that relies almost entirely on imported food to survive. 297 Farm saw the extensive problems this dependence brought with it and…

Photos by Nina Ruppert

Growing lobsters and tropical fruits at home:

"The market is asking for an aquaponic system as ours"

“We believe that not just Luxembourg, but most of the world is both ready and asking for a system such as ours,” says Manuel Arrillaga with Fësch Haff in Luxembourg. Together…

Japan: Semi-automated weigh system cuts costs and allows more efficiency

“We still see a lot of manual labor, which decreases production efficiency, producing inconsistent yields and increasing labor costs," the Yamato team says. In the food processing…

VEK Adviesgroep celebrates 50 years of existence

The consultancy and engineering company helps entrepreneurs in greenhouse horticulture to achieve their growth and ambition by advising on design and implementation for…

"Head lettuce is increasingly losing out to colors, bags, and mixes"

Henk van Doorne of Van Doorne Imex in the Netherlands characterizes the lettuce market as slim. "Considering all the price increases, lettuce prices should be rising in…

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9 – 30 November

"Resistance makes the difference"

From 9 – 30 November 2021, the Enza Zaden House Fair 2021 takes place. During these three weeks, you can visit the demo location in Almeria, Spain, or join a digital session…

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"Indoor farming could improve B.C. food security amid climate change"

It is a chilly, wet October day in Langley, B.C., and Colin Chapdelaine, president of B.C. Hothouse Foods, is standing in a warm field of cucumbers. He is surrounded by the…

NZ: Pepino Mosaic Virus update

The presence of Pepino Mosiac Virus (PepMV) at a South Auckland commercial tomato property was confirmed in September, taking the number of confirmed sites to five. These sites are…

Special: A fresh start

Smaller version of the Basic Washer machine presented

Machine builder Unifortes presents a new machine: the Basic Washer: UNI-BW150.60. It is a suitable washer for smaller operations for the food processing and other industries. With…

The LED light switch: how indoor farmers can save energy

If you are a farmer or grower struggling with the recent rising energy costs that show no signs of abating, now is the time to consider the switch to LED lighting as a more…

Silver Award for new biocontrol product

Certis Europe won second place in the 2021 Bernard Blum Award with its broad-spectrum fungicide, Problad. The award is presented annually by IBMA for Novel…


Three entrepreneurs create vertical farm in Sri Lanka Looking at the issue of food security and the future, three young entrepreneurs have banded together to create Honest Greens, an indoor vertical farm that uses a myriad of technologies, including precision hydroponics, climate control, and horticultural lighting to build a farm (and pioneer a farming method) that is…

New policy lab report explores the true costs of food waste

The winners of the Global Food Security program (GFS) Policy Lab competition have released their policy recommendations at the United Nations COP26 Climate Change conference…

How do colored shade nets affect postharvest quality of fresh produce?

Modification of spectral quality via colored shade nets can act as a physiological tool to modify the crop microenvironment and advance plant growth, yield, and fresh produce…

Mapping greenhouses to estimate yields in China

To estimate vegetable yields, greenhouse mapping using high spatial resolution (HSR) remote sensing imagery is very important. Although automatic greenhouse mapping methods…

Al-Kafeel News

Farms of al-Abbas holy shrine, Iraq, present their autumn crops

The Department of Agricultural Affairs and Livestock Resources of the Al-Kafeel Company for Public Investments, one of the companies of the al-Abbas's holy shrine, announced…

Students believe growing can become carbon neutral by 2040

After a fiercely contested competition last weekend between five UK secondary schools, Laurus Ryecroft (Manchester) has won the prestigious title of 'Food, Farming and Natural…

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"EU Green Deal presents new opportunities, threats and risks for South African agriculture"

The European Union is seeking to compel other countries, including South Africa, to adhere to new regulations if they want to continue to access its lucrative market. This…

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US greenhouse research facility likely to be built elsewhere due to uncertainty over greenhouse sale

The likelihood that NatureSweet’s greenhouse Site 1 will be turned into a world-class research and development Innovation Center gets less and less every day due to the…

26 November 2021

Webinar 'Carbon Neutral Horticulture in Japan'

The Dutch embassy in Tokyo organizes the sixth edition of the 'Netherlands-Japan horticulture webinar' on November 26th. Due to Covid, the event will again be…

Opting exclusively for recyclable plant pots

Recyclable plant pots from the Circular360 category Pöppelmann TEKU help companies in the horticultural industry to make a commitment to increasing…

Hoogendoorn Growth Management receives the GSES sustainability certificate during Dutch Trade mission to Dubai

It has been a very good week for Hoogendoorn Growth Management. After winning the Smart Process Control award at the HillenraadTECH50 event in The Netherlands, another…

Dutch and Spanish community imports of tomatoes decrease, Moroccan imports increase

The Netherlands, Spain, and Morocco are the EU's main tomato suppliers. In the last five years, tomato exports from the Netherlands and Spain to the rest of…

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Bonduelle and its partnership with Op Oasi:

The story behind packaged vegetables

With the aim of communicating the great care that goes into the entire production process in order to guarantee a quality product that meets both the consumer's needs and…

German restaurants are growing their own produce

At De Kas in Amsterdam, you can dine out among greenhouses. In around 2000, it was considered to be one of the very first farm-to-fork restaurants in the Netherlands, and now,…

Adrian Dale - Tosca

"NeRa nestable, rackable, and stackable heavy-duty plastic pallet can deliver game-changing efficiencies"

In August 2020, Tosca, a specialist in reusable packaging and supply chain solutions, acquired Contraload NV, a company in plastic pallet pooling in the United Kingdom and…

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Rwandan company secures 2000 ha in Zimbabwe for chili production

The Gashora Farm has secured 2000 hectares of land in Zimbabwe, intent on increasing chili production. Its manager, Diego Twahirwa, intends to grow 2000…

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