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Priva deleafing robot co-created with growers
Chances are big that the Priva Deleafing Robot will be the winner of the 2016 GreenTech Innovation Award. It is the first robot in …
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Growing vegetables in an urban environment
Apart from Vertical Farming, there are numerous hybrid cultivation initiatives taking place in and on buildings, also known as Urban Farming and Rooftop Farming. …
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Prize Contest Jungle Talks
Jungle Talks is a new concept in the horticultural sector and intends to exchange and transfer knowledge between horticultural professionals and to make crossovers …
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Electronics manufacturers express growing interest in commercial farming
Electronics manufacturers in Japan launched a number of Vertical Farming projects starting in 2008, initially with the aim of producing good LEDs and electronics …
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Vertical Farming is growing worldwide, especially outside the Netherlands
The cultivation of crops in the city, or Urban Farming, is beginning to arouse increasing interest worldwide. This often involves Vertical Farming, in which …
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‘LED lighting has improved the quality of our lettuce and reduced plant loss’
Arjan Boer of the Boer & Den Hoedt lettuce farm in Ridderkerk has been using the latest generation Lemnis Oreon LED lighting for the …
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Russian greenhouse project Agro-Invest captured on video
Agro-Invest is a turn-key greenhouse project in the Kaluga region, a special economic zone located 300 km from Moscow. The first 20 hectare of …
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GreenTech Innovation Award 2016 nominees announced
A shortlist of nominees, all but two of them Dutch, has been announced for the GreenTech Innovation Award 2016. An international jury has selected …
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Chrysanthemum beer and striking presentation make pot mums hip
Breeders of pot chrysanthemums have for a long time aimed to optimise the task of the grower. By concentrating on ‘families’ of varieties the …
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‘Algae are the vegetables for the future.’
Although they only started growing fresh algae commercially less than a year ago, Hendrik Staarink and his partner Stefano Canziani are fully confident about …