May 2025

Uzbekistan, in partnership with China, is set to launch the production of "smart" films designed to regulate temperature inside greenhouses, according to the press service of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.

May 2025

Spring greenhouse disease prevention is essential for a successful growing season, particularly as the days become sunnier. Canadian greenhouses, especially in southern Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec, are in full spring production by mid-April, cycling through winter propagation and focusing on tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, and ornamentals. They rely on supplemental lighting and climate control to maintain optimal temperatures.

May 2025

New research by horticulturalists at the University of Georgia provides key insights into optimizing southern highbush and rabbiteye blueberry production, addressing the impact of soil potassium levels on leaf nutrient uptake and the role of photoselective devices in boosting productivity. These findings offer practical strategies for improving blueberry yield and quality in commercial cultivation.

April 2025

Bert van Geffen and Brigitte van Zaal established Bert's Berry Farm to introduce tray plants to the local strawberry industry. Bert explains that strawberry growers in New Zealand began shifting from open-field cultivation to tunnel production due to issues with fruit rot and labour challenges.

April 2025

A new discovery has unveiled a genetic module that simultaneously regulates lateral branch development and drought tolerance in cucumbers. This dual-function genetic pathway offers a promising new approach to breeding cucumber varieties that are both resilient to water scarcity and tailored to market preferences.

April 2025

Turkmenistan is pursuing this initiative as part of its strategy to develop the agro-industrial sector and reduce dependence on food imports.

March 2025

The University of Granada has carried out a study with the biological control group of the Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Fisheries, Food, and Organic Production (Ifapa), and researchers from other institutions, to evaluate the effect of artificial sugar supply on ant-aphid interactions in protected horticulture.

March 2025

A team of specialists affiliated with Gentle Green put their heads together to develop a system for this. And that system is ready to go to market, says Edwin van der Knaap.

March 2025

On February 12, 2025, Indonesia and the Republic of Türkiye signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking a strategic step toward enhancing agricultural commodity export cooperation between the two countries.

February 2025

Frutos de Jalisco is a company that has made a significant expansion in the tomato production sector with 12 hectares of greenhouse space. The company has grown by adapting to the hot and humid climatic conditions of the region and has managed to increase its production despite these challenging conditions.

February 2025

The sensors can wirelessly transmit real-time data about the plant and environmental conditions. And there is no need to install any cables, gateways, receivers or amplifiers in the growing area.

January 2025

Water quality and water management are very important in the horticulture industry, that's clear. During the Erfgoed WaterEvent, these were hot topics.

January 2025

Certhon's core mission is simple yet ambitious: "Growing anything, anywhere. For everyone." Specializing in the development of high-tech greenhouses and systems, they are committed to creating solutions that enable the production of fresh, sustainable food anywhere in the world.

December 2024

The first farmers wrote their stories in seeds, selecting and saving the strongest, the sweetest, and the most abundant. Ten thousand years later, in laboratories across the globe, we're still writing agricultural stories – but now our ink is algorithms, and our paper is the double helix of DNA itself.

December 2024

"At NIBIO, we don't use natural gas to heat anymore so we do not benefit from waste carbon dioxide. With DAC technology, we capture carbon dioxide from outside and put it in the greenhouse. While using hydroelectric energy, allows us to be a zero-emission system," says Michel Verheul, Senior Research Scientist at NIBIO in Særheim, Norway.

December 2024

Francois Fourie believes in precision agriculture: he applies the principles himself in growing vegetables (and this season fruit too) while his company Turf Technology & Irrigation (TT-i) sets up irrigation and fertigation systems across South Africa.

October 2024

In 2022, the quantity of mineral fertilisers (nitrogen and phosphorus) used in agricultural production across the EU was 9.8 million tonnes. This represented a sharp decline of 10.3% compared with the quantity used in 2021, and a cumulative decline of 15.9% from the relative peak in 2017.

October 2024

Vardan Agrotech has been in hydroponics and controlled environment agriculture for over five years. For them, to develop a hydroponic facility that is sustainable in India, it is important to integrate traditional know-how with the latest technology and automation developments. "Leveraging our research and development background, we've refined our growing techniques and nutrient solutions by integrating technology with traditional practices. This approach ensures the production of high-quality, chemical residue-free crops," Madhav Gupta, operational general manager at Vardan Agrotech states.

October 2024

The trend in many countries at this time is that cucumber prices are trending higher. A recent TikTok video craze has also led to higher consumption in the Netherlands and Iceland as people seek to emulate these online trends. In Spain's Almería, an improvement in availability of cucumber volumes is expected. In Italy, cucumbers have high prices with even higher demand. Cucumber prices have been very high for several weeks due to the weather that has slowed down production. In Germany, prices have increased too.

August 2024

Bees and other beneficial bugs are disproportionately harmed by air pollution compared to crop-destroying pests, a new study published in Nature Communications has found.

August 2024

Many farms, from vertical farming startups to traditional specialty crop growers, are marketing greenhouses as a way to shelter crops from climate extremes. But overlooked are the experiences of workers inside, who may swelter under high heat and humidity, reports Toronto City News.

August 2024

In a collaboration between three Michelin-star Chef Corey Lee and Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore (HMGICS), Na Oh, a new restaurant concept, is set to add a unique offering to the culinary landscape in Singapore.

June 2024

Ontario Plants Propagation was founded in 2002 along this seemingly desolate stretch of natural splendor. As a family business with immigrant roots and generational wisdom, the passion for nurturing premium starter plants from seeds was pursued on a humble 7-acre plot of land just outside the town of St. Thomas. Today, the operation comprises 45 acres of high-tech greenhouse facilities that produce more than 60 million "ready-to-grow" young plants from seed each year. Approximately 40% of all greenhouses in North America get their starter plants from Ontario Plants Propagation.

June 2024

Artemy is the brand-new harvest robot developed jointly by DENSO Corporation and Certhon, and it is ready for the commercial market. The robot is equipped with advanced vision technology for scanning the crop by its maturity and harvests ripe truss tomatoes. Artemy has an automatic lane change function, utilizing the sensor and image recognition technology to recognize running lanes so it can move to the adjacent one, even in trackless environments. In addition, Artemy has several other functions, such as automatic replacement and transfer of crates, which reduce heavy work for farmers.

June 2024

Cucumber is one of the most popular vegetables in the world. Thus, growers often like to brag to their colleagues about the size of their cucumbers, often exaggerating by a lot. In this regard, the EastFruit team decided to do all the cucumbers and based only on true and well-documented facts, create a rating of the largest cucumbers ever grown by people. However, when compiling a rating of the largest cucumbers, we encountered an unexpected but not an unusual dilemma – what is more important: the length of the cucumber or its thickness?