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Movement and touch make plants shorter
Plants in the greenhouse are increasingly on the move. More attention is being paid to air circulation and mobile cultivation is on the rise. …
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Labour challenges
Farming is an innately labour-intensive industry. With the advent of greenhouse technology leading to increased yields and better quality crops, labour has remained just …
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Small core cucumber project calls for intensive collaboration
By the end of June 2016, time was getting tight for cucumber grower Marco Zuidgeest. If he wanted to grow the innovative small core …
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Constant arms race between plant and fungi
Fungi parasitize plants because they can’t assimilate themselves. They have developed numerous methods of penetrating the plant. In turn, plants have developed a complete …
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Luring effect of pheromone enhanced by adding plant aromatics
Plant bugs like the European tarnished plant bug and the common nettle bug are a serious problem in crops such as aubergine, cucumber and …
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Targeted fertilisation enables extra recirculation in pot orchids
Greater re-use of drainage water for pot orchids is one step closer with a new compound fertiliser. Phalaenopsis grower De Molenhoek in Bemmel, the …
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‘Use of analysis of sales and costing data basis for future decisions’
Stan Vander Waal got his first taste of working in horticulture when he was just 13 years old. His father switched from crop and …
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Quick and detailed information on a plant’s mineral uptake
According to the advisers at the Dutch consultancy group HortiNova, fertilisation is a very precise science that can only be done properly if you …
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Water distribution in growing substrates continues to surprise
Contrary to what was assumed in the past, recent research has revealed that water is rarely distributed homogeneously through the root ball following limited …
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‘Interlighting boosts truss development and flowering speed’
Interest in artificial lighting with LEDs is on the rise. Recently tomato growers Verkade in ‘s-Gravenzande (Westland, the Netherlands) gained their first experience with …