plant protection

In a move towards a greener future, Koppert, a global leader in sustainable cultivation solutions, unveils its comprehensive sustainability strategy, “Future Forward – A path for a sustainable tomorrow.“

HAL Investments is investing in Koppert, the global leader in biological solutions for agriculture. This will provide capital to strengthen Koppert's position and accelerate its international expansion.

Koppert’s revolutionary release system for its biological solution, Mirical, has won the first prize of the prestigious international Fruit Logistica Innovation Award Technology. The award presented by Messe Berlin GmbH and Fruitnet Media International in Berlin on 9 February, honours outstanding...

Easier to apply, exacter to dose, better and fasterpest control. Koppert's proven and trusted biological solution for the control of whitefly – Mirical –is now available in revolutionary new packaging. First introduced in France, the new and improvedMirical is lauded by growers for its improved...

Nezapar has won the Bronze Award in the 2023 Bernard Blum Awards at the Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM). This award is an annual recognition of the year's most innovative biocontrol product, one that significantly impacts the management of pests and diseases while having minimal impact...

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...

Something special happens when two business come together and each can contribute a missing puzzle piece. When both parties have an intuitive understanding and can solve the puzzle together, synergy is created and the result is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This is precisely...

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 winner of the start- and scale-up challenge, organized by GreenTech Americas in cooperation with the Netherlands Embassy in Mexico and the Netherlands Business Support Office Querétaro, is Valto Biocontrol with the product V10. The Dutch start-up was selected out of 7 impressive entries. The...

After introducing a new brand identity in January 2022, Koppert is entering the next phase and proudly presents a new product branding. Each product will have its own premium look-and-feel, but at the same time remain recognisable as a Koppert product. Over the coming year Koppert will redesign...

To meet the rising demand of biological crop protection, Certis Biologicals announced that it is strengthening its innovation pipeline by naming Mike Allan Vice President of Business Development and Licensing.

Koppert is on the road towards becoming a globally sustainable and green organization. While the company’s products and services have been promoting sustainable horticulture and agriculture for more than 55 years, it is now bringing more transparency into its processes and operations. This is...

Koppert Biological Systems has signed an agreement with Royal HaskoningDHV and ChainCraft to use Kaumera as a biostimulant. Kaumera is a new, biological raw material extracted from wastewater using a sustainable purification technique. In creating value from wastewater, the three parties are...

Syngenta Crop Protection AG has acquired two next generation bioinsecticides, NemaTrident and UniSpore, from leading biocontrol technology developer, Bionema Limited. NemaTrident and UniSpore will provide customers with additional and complementary technologies to effectively and sustainably...

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC) and Orbia Ventures today announce their Series-B investment in the Israeli biotech startup FortePhest. Founded in 2017, FortePhest is developing a new technology to combat herbicide-resistant weeds and invasive plants. Inspired and informed by natural plant...

As of February 1st, 2022, the new Input list for organic agriculture in Germany of FiBL Projekte GmbH is valid. With around 2,900 listed products from more than 600 registered companies - rising trend - the Input List has become a significant tool for stakeholders in organic agriculture in...