• Natutec Airobreez: a new standard in application devices for biocontrol

  January 8, 2025

  seamless, precise, and efficient way to release natural enemies, the Airobreez transforms the way biological pest control is practiced, merging the best of nature [...] settings, the Airobreez is designed to ensure every product is applied with pinpoint accuracy. “ Our customers can trust that no material is lost during [...] nature with Technology The Airobreez is the latest addition to Koppert’s Natutec range, a portfolio of technology-driven solutions for the application of biocontrol

• Gherkin

  About The pickled cucumber (usually referred to as ‘pickle’ in the United States and Canada or generically as ‘gherkin’ in the United Kingdom, Ireland [...] Ireland and Australia) is actually a regular cucumber that is pickled in vinegar, a brine or some other solution. It is then left to ferment for a certain period [...] period of time. Fermentation takes place by putting the cucumbers in an acidic solution or use lacto-fermentation to sour them.

• Inspiring webinar series on Plant Health

  March 4, 2021

  Resilience. The webinar series was to highlight the importance of plant health on people’s health. In the third session of the plant health series, the Creative [...] Plants to Survive' put the spotlight on soil health. The inspiring presentations of grower, entrepreneur and speaker John Kempf and scientist Jill Clapperton [...] led to a flood of questions and lively discussion on soil health and the future of food production, both for field crops and vegetables grown in protected

• Faba bean

  bean and tick bean are all different names for the Vicia faba , a flowering plant and species belonging to the vetch and pea family Fabaceae . The name [...] name ‘broad bean’ is commonly used in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia and usually applied to large-seeded varieties which are cultivated for [...] for consumption. The Vicia faba grows some 0.5–1.8 m tall and is a firm plant with sturdy stems of a square cross-section. The broad beans are broad, leather

• Pea

  popular vegetable is a round seed in the seed pod of the fruit, Pisum sativum . Pods of this plant develop from the ovary of a pea flower and carry numerous [...] numerous peas. The vegetable is a bright green colour, sometimes yellow or purple and widely grown as a cool season vegetable crop. Immature peas are consumed [...] consumed as a vegetable and often canned or frozen. Dry peas are shelled from matured pods.

• Chili pepper

  79 inch) long and 3–7 millimetres (0.12–0.28 in) in diameter) and acrid, their shape is ellipsoid-conical to lanceolate. The fruit (the peppers) usually [...] About The particular species of chili pepper, Capsicum frutescens, is at times categorized under the species Capsicum annuum . The pepper cultivars of [...] perennial (short-lived) plants. The plant’s flowers are white and have a greenish white or greenish yellow corolla. The plant’s berries are very small (10–20

• Koppert launches Timing Expert, a new decision-support tool in Koppert One

  May 5, 2026

  data. Using geolocation, the tool identifies the best foliar application windows for beneficial nematodes. Growers receive the output in a clear format: [...] growers, consultants, and field researchers identify the optimal moment for foliar nematode applications, improving performance and delivering more consistent [...] results in the field,” says Cyrille Verdun, Global Product Portfolio Manager - Micro. Timing Expert is available to everyone through the Koppert One app

• Red currant

  leaves are five-lobed and are arranged in a spiral form on the stem. The flowers the shrub produces are a yellow-green colour, and develop in pendulous [...] About The red currant ( Ribes rubrum) belongs to the genus Ribes which is a member of the gooseberry family. Red currants are indigenous to Western Europe [...] extensively and also appear in the wild in many areas. Red currant is a deciduous shrub which develops into 1–1.5 metres (3.3–4.9 ft) high (occasionally the shrubs

• Papaya

  About A tropical fruit that is called papaya, papaw or pawpaw in different countries, is the fruit of the Carica papaya tree of the family Caricaceae. First [...] First cultivated in Mexico, it is now grown in most tropical regions around the world. The papaya fruit is 15-45 cm in length and between 10-30 cm in diameter [...] diameter. Its soft skin is an amber to orange colour.

• Grapefruit

  fruit that is sour to semi-sweet. Grapefruit ( Citrus paradisi ) is a hybrid between a pomelo ( C. maxima ) and an orange ( C. sinensis ) and comes in many [...] many varieties. The most popular varieties today are the blood-red, pink and white pulp colours. The flavours vary from almost sweet to really bitter.