• Gaining a market position in Western Europe from Italy's deep south

  September 24, 2018

  Italy Cavalieri and Papaianni SRL is located near the town of Bisignano, in Calabria, the ‘boot’ of Italy. The company's largest crop is cut chrysanthemum [...] robust crop Antonio explains how the effects of biological crop protection are visible soon after the start of a new crop: the young plants are not stressed [...] after being sprayed with chemical substances. ‘The colour of the leaves has improved, the stems are of higher quality and stronger, and the crop is more robust

• Koppert at GreenTech Amsterdam 2023

  May 30, 2023

  GreenTech has a programme that tackles the big cultivation issues of today. Koppert and a team of experts will be there to inform you about their natural solutions [...] in either of these two workshops which will focus on water balance and plant health . During these sessions, twelve Implementation Partners of Plant Empowerment [...] our spacious corporate stand for the latest news about our products – many of which have just been rebranded. Come and meet the Koppert team to find out

• Full participation at ABIM in Basel

  October 15, 2021

  top of those changes and that is what we do during ABIM.’ Panel discussions During the TV style newsreel/panel discussions, Koppert’s Director of Corporate [...] giving a presentation on monitoring technologies and the use of drones in the application of beneficial insects and biological agents: ‘Digitalization and [...] A full team of Koppert professionals will be present at the Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM) to be held in Basel, Switzerland, on 19 and 20 October

• Introducing beneficial nematodes for Agriculture and Horticulture at Fruit Logistica

  January 31, 2023

  and agriculture. Nematodes combat a range of foliage-feeding pests and Koppert now produces three varieties of these natural solutions for both agriculture [...] powerful part of sustainable IPM solutions. They offer growers opportunities to control pests in the soil such as thrips pupae, and larvae of sciarid flies

• Natutec Drone Leaflet - Koppert

  NATUTEC DRONE WE’RE ON TOP OF YOUR CROP High expectations of efficient Natutec Drone The technique is efficient and works, but the challenge is in organizing [...] distribute the beneficials evenly, hundreds of empty food trays on the ground, to see if the regardless of the carrier material, it also had to be efficient: [...] test the costs of dispersal via drones had to be lower than the flights in the hangar in Valkenburg also gave good outcomes. costs of manual dispersal

• Anthura does everything possible against aphids

  April 22, 2020

  Knaap and Peter Vogel. Anthura has a wide range of measures in place to maximize the quality and the health of the plants awaiting delivery. In some cases [...] use of pesticides in the department this season and is introducing natural enemies much earlier. ‘We started with Aphiscout in week 5 with a dose of a half [...] likelihood of cross-contamination? Success is not an automatic guarantee.’ Nevertheless, Peter Vogel and Marjolein van der Knaap hope that at the end of 2020

• A new formulation for Spical-Plus

  December 21, 2017

  A good start of the new year Research has shown that a modified formulation of Spical-Plus results in a more robust product. The formulation brings particular [...] changes to the predatory mite. The modification only affects the formulation of the carrier material. Our advice to use the product immediately after receipt [...] Tim Bossinga explains: ‘We are dealing with live material. The management of the logistical process is something that sets Koppert apart from competitors

• Koppert and King Saud University sign research agreement

  October 16, 2017

  professor Nasser Al-Suhaibani of the King Saud University. It was also signed by Prof. Abdulrahman Saad Aldawood, the head of Economics Entomology Research [...] Research Unit (EERU) at the Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The EERU team will be responsible [...] agreement both parties hope to intensify the current research. Date palms are one of the most important crops in the Middle East. By working together we hope to

• Horiver in a new ‘jacket’

  June 4, 2018

  One of Koppert’s classic products – the Horiver sticky trap – has acquired a new look to bring it into line with the rest of the company’s product lay-out [...] temperatures and help growers trap all types of flying pest insects. They give growers an early indication of the pests in their greenhouses and the opportunity [...] lay-out. Product Manager, Rick van der Pas, says the changes reflect the quality of the product which has now been a market leader for over two decades. ‘It’s

• Linflowers wants to eliminate the need for chemicals all year round

  September 5, 2019

  ‘It seems to be the downside of the success we had with spider mites and thrips ,’ explains Rochus van Tuijl. ‘As a result of us hardly using chemicals any [...] implementation remains at a high level of quality, a level that we want,’ says Rochus van Tuijl. Residue-free cuttings One of the next steps that Linflowers will [...] resilient. It is also important to reduce the release of nitrogen (by allowing the plant to make better use of nutrients). Less nitrogen makes the plant less