• Visit Koppert Outdoor Experience Centre to discover the potential of biocontrol for outdoor crops

  May 30, 2023

  involved, explaining which products can be applied using standard equipment and which require specialised equipment. Our goal is to address any questions [...] Centre is a visit to a business, not a testing ground,’ says Koen de Bruycker, owner of De Bruycker Agro in Dronten, the Netherlands. ‘It is in our best [...] expand the availability of sustainable solutions. To achieve this, it is important that more growers, partners in the value chain and people with ties to politics

• Koppert collaborates to launch free biocontrol tool

  February 14, 2020

  regulators for that specific search. Information is sourced directly from national governments’ lists or registered pesticides, and from partner biocontrol [...] including Spain, Brazil, Uganda and Bangladesh. In 2021, more countries will follow. It is the aim that this tool becomes a global go-to resource for [...] options for growers – has been launched in Kenya. Koppert Biological Systems is one of the partners to share its expertise to produce an innovative free-to-use

• Koppert scales up for European agriculture: ‘Biological solutions offer multiple benefits’

  October 24, 2022

  department is currently working to get Trianum-P registered for potatoes, a product that is based on the Trichoderma harzianum fungus. ‘This product is highly [...] decided that we’d start to focus on outdoor crops as well, as this is an area in which sustainable solutions can make a big difference,’ explains Martin [...] nematodes, bacteria, and fungi, to tackle diseases and make crops more resilient and more productive. These include Fusarium and the Sclerotinia fungus. Even

• Don Sanchez Fresh innovates with biological control in avocados

  chemical control. Although biological control is not yet common in avocado production in Mexico, more and more growers are exploring the development and [...] pesticides and obliging farmers to apply sustainable agricultural practices. More and more retailers are even requiring extra-legal conditions for the marketing [...] says: "One of the reasons why we are getting into biological control is because a law is coming that will limit the use of many molecules and insecticides

• Natutec Drive effective and efficient – ‘a fantastic device’

  December 16, 2020

  ‘Everything is moving towards greater precision. Natutec Scout is part of that, so is the Natutec Drone, and now the Natutec Drive as well. What we do is both [...] That blowing device is now here: it goes by the name Natutec Drive and is already being used in the cultivation of strawberries . It is a structure containing [...] i.e which pest is present and where, and then develop applications that can help growers to fight infestations with extreme accuracy. Technology is making

• Sustainability drive continues - plastic buckets now recycled!

  March 30, 2024

  Solving the plastic bucket challenge One such challenge is the large Montdo Mite bucket which is made of sturdy plastic. The 6l bucket holds 250.000 predatory [...] products have been helping growers to transition to more sustainable agriculture and horticulture for more than half a century, much still needs to be done [...] This means that each product’s packaging is now being closely examined for sustainable alternatives, reuse or recycling options. While we have had a great

• Cactus mealybug

  Spilococcus cactearum ) is a pest of cacti and other succulents. It was first described in England but its origin is not clear. It is now found on many gr [...] with a white waxy material in the form of powder, threads, spiky projections or platelets. Eggs are laid in a sticky, foamy mass of wax threads, called an [...] the second instar on, they are covered with white waxy exudate and become more sedentary and only move occasionally. After the second instar, the males

• Sustainable cultivation goes much further than pests and natural enemies

  April 19, 2018

  plants and their environment about which we still know too little. There is particular potential in discovering more about those interactions. If we can [...] expensive. These days, it is more affordable. If you have the scope to invest in the latest technologies, you can take care of much more yourself than you used [...] ‘He or she thinks of the sun, the fresh air of the great outdoors, ladybirds, butterflies... and while there is nothing wrong with that image, it is definitely

• Trichoderma harzianum

  . When the pathogen pressure is potentially high, the crop is sensible to soil diseases. If the crop cycle is long it is advised to perform regular ap [...] with Trianum-P or Trianum-G should start as early as possible, at the moment of sowing or transplanting. For transplanted crops it is possible to start [...] harzianum T-22 is a species of beneficial fungus commonly used in agriculture and horticulture for its various beneficial properties. This fungus is known for

• Amblydromalus limonicus, a versatile predator in the fight against soft-bodied pests

  July 21, 2025

  produces more offspring than many other commercially used predatory mites . This high fecundity translates into faster population build-up, which is crucial [...] While Amblydromalus limonicus is not yet universally available or suitable for all cropping systems, its biological profile is undeniably impressive. From [...] early larval stages, A. limonicus is capable of preying on second instar (L2) thrips larvae, a stage typically more mobile and harder to suppress. This