• How Integrated Pest Management adds value to your outdoor crops

  December 14, 2023

  more pests. In the meantime, beneficial mites are reproducing and eating bad mites, while the biofungicide Trianum is controlling pathogens in the soil and [...] the soil conditions, climate conditions and with other products used in the field. In everything we do, we involve the grower and the distributor. Leveraging [...] plant growth. All these solutions are completely natural and effective.’ In addition, an effective IPM strategy incorporates pest monitoring, cultural

• At Koppert, every day is Earth Day

  April 22, 2021

  marked in 1970. It gave a voice to an emerging public consciousness about the state of our planet. Since then, the day in has been honoured in 190 countries [...] many of the solutions for our worldly challenges lie in nature itself. That is why we believe that in order to solve the world’s biggest challenges, we need [...] can play a role in repairing the damage done. At Koppert, we look to nature for solutions, celebrate green technologies, and invest in innovative thinking

• Natupol - Consistent quality and continuous innovation

  June 8, 2020

  pollinators into greenhouses since the 80s resulted in spectacular increases in yield and improved quality in tomato, soft fruits and seed production. For the [...] role in communicating the problems they encounter in the field. When it comes to finding solutions for today’s cultivation issues, we are all in partnership [...] we produced in 1989 and the high-tech bumblebee colonies we produce today. Three decades of know-how, technological progress, experience in the field, and

• Koppert introduces Natutec Drive

  September 21, 2020

  biocontrol of pests in strawberries in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. Trials on citrus have also started in Spain. Natutec Drive [...] underway in a number of different crops and in a growing number of countries. Optimizing technology ‘Growers want their employees picking strawberries in the [...] save growers a great deal of time and expense in the future. Tests have conclusively proved its effectiveness in the field and we have a growing number of

• Cultivating health with biological crop protection

  April 7, 2024

  Koppert, we understand the vital role that biological crop protection plays in promoting health across various domains - from safeguarding human health and [...] Air and water pollution, climate change, and the use of harmful chemicals in agriculture pose significant threats to both human well-being and the natural [...] the power of nature's own defence mechanisms to manage pests and diseases in agriculture. Beneficial organisms like predatory insects , parasitic wasps

• Excellent results with Trianum-P: ‘The yield is above average’

  December 6, 2017

  started his company in the mid-seventies in the Salerno area, in southern Italy. Since then he has produced mainly lettuce in winter. In spring and summer [...] switches to tomatoes, melons and eggplants. In the beginning, the production was in a greenhouse on 3 hectares. In 1999, he decided to change the crop into [...] different types of chards in plastic sachets for the ready-to-eat market. That was a good decision, because of the growth in this market. The company grew

• World Environment Day – Ecosystem Restoration

  June 4, 2021

  directly or indirectly play a role in making growers and other stakeholders in agriculture aware of the risks involved in using chemicals for pest and disease [...] Controlling pests and diseases in the greenhouse using predatory mites and wasps; making plants more resilient by using fungi in the soil, and introducing [...] all, directly and indirectly, enabled a significant reduction in the use of chemicals in horticulture and agriculture, ultimately improving the ecosystem

• Nezapar: preventive use is the best approach

  April 14, 2023

  from Ethiopia and in just a few short years has expanded to become a notorious pest in sweet pepper, cucumber and aubergine cultivation in Europe. The stink [...] no green stink bugs in the greenhouse can he wait until he expects to find them. Growers need to be careful though. They can fly in at any time and quickly [...] they bite a hole in the Nezara egg, putting a stop to further population growth. Koppert is the first to produce parasitic wasps in large numbers; with

• Koppert registers new biofungicide

  November 26, 2019

  been conducted using Noli against Botrytis spp. in a variety of fruits in several countries in Europe and in the United States. The trials have been carried [...] fruit growers and wine producers millions of euros in production losses worldwide, can now be controlled in an effective and sustainable way with a non-synthetic [...] which prevents decay in fruit. The product is intended for preventive treatment before disease symptoms appear, but can also be used in the finishing stages

• World Food Day 2021

  October 18, 2021

  World Food Prize in 2019. Land of connections - Resilience Food Stories In this video Sjoerd Wartena tell us how he started a goat farm in France and underwent [...] with Simon Groot - a pioneer in seed breeding - and how he and his company, East West Seed, encouraged small-scale farmers in South East Asia to use quality [...] underwent a metamorphosis in lifestyle by living off the land and sharing knowledge. He started the Terre de Liens in 2003 to buy farms for a growing community