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Signify, the world leader in lighting, recently equipped HAS green academy in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, with several new dimmable Philips GreenPower LED installations. The greenhouses and climate chambers at the university of applied sciences now have the latest grow light technology.
The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has just introduced another new module to its Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform – this time on Sustainable Disease Control (August 2023). With growing public environmental awareness, it’s designed to provide garden centre staff with the...
The well-known ornamental plant breeder MNP/Suntory has launched a new film explaining through animations how they, since 1989, every year with a unique business philosophy, develop the newest, extraordinary and sustainable varieties and brands for the European floricultural market.
Hyperparasitic wasps do not parasitize caterpillars directly, but on the larva of a parasitic wasp inside the caterpillar. Mitchel Bourne and colleagues found that the primary parasitic wasp causes changes in caterpillar odours.
The new Training & Demonstration Centre HortiSenegal project kicked off in Kirene, Senegal, on 9 March. In this initiative by vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan and co-funded by the Dutch government, a consortium of companies will provide training to local farmers. The goal is not only to...
The International Seed Federation (ISF) and non-profit organization Fair Planet signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week to partner on a “Seed Resilience” project which will focus on the development of several crop pillars: vegetables, pulses, potatoes, and cereals.
The “Green Associations” together with MESSE ESSEN continued their activities in the promotion of young professionals at the International Plant Fair in Essen this year. On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, it was once again “I Love Green – Training Day” at the Congress Center. Around 300 students from...
The world's largest horticultural trade fair had to take a break for two years because of a small virus. Now the next edition of IPM Essen will start from 24 to 27 January 2023 - and expects many visitors from all over the world!
