• How Integrated Pest Management adds value to your crops

  January 7, 2024

  we zoom in on the need: Is it a must to prevent any and all damage to the crop because the customer demands a perfect fruit? Or can the plant handle some [...] many reasons to implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM), from a desire to grow more sustainably to an urgent need to find alternatives to conventional [...] of damage and is the goal not to eliminate but reduce pests? Afterall, you don't want to spray more than is necessary.’ The next step is to introduce biological

• 6 Reasons to Switch - The Benefits of IPM

  June 7, 2022

  if possible, chemical if necessary. It is a flexible system that can always be adapted to new circumstances. Here is a summary of the major reasons and benefits [...] valued supplier to customers if you are able to grow a healthy crop without being heavily dependent on chemicals. IPM is safer for employees. [...] Reasons to Switch - The Benefits of IPM Chemical plant protection was the standard for many years. But these days, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is gaining

• Rhyzobug – Your answer to most armoured scale species

  March 29, 2022

  moving forward with a value-driven new international visual identity. We believe that every problem in agriculture and horticulture has a solution, and we [...] Rhyzobug – Your answer to most armoured scale species Partnering with nature has unending innovation as a result – we must just discover it! Entering 2022, Koppert [...] Koppert South Africa is not only celebrating a decade of investing in the health, safety, and productivity of South African soil, but we are also moving

• Trianum-P improves open field pepper production in Portugal

  excellent results in pepper crops for processing in Portugal, a country where this biological fungicide has been registered since 2018 in its two formulations [...] hectares of peppers in the Marinhais area. The entire crop is harvested mechanically. With mechanization, it is very important that all plants reach the end [...] harvesting, we were forced to change our way of producing and we decided to introduce new means that help protect the roots. It was in this way that we first

• Attracker

  Before using Attracker in combination with plant protection products in crops that might be sensitive to phytotoxicity, test in a small area before proceding [...] When to use Attracker? Attracker improves the efficacy of pesticides, especial when the pest hides in a sheltered place on the crop. Crops All crops. How [...] sheltered places. When adding Attracker to pesticides, insects are more exposed to the chemical spray and pest control is greatly improved. Pack size 5 and 10

• Leading farmers in climate-smart horticulture

  October 18, 2022

  , we feel privileged to be working together to lead farmers in climate-smart horticulture. The HortiDemoCentre will specialise in protected horticulture [...] Africa all contribute a broad spectrum of knowledge and technology throughout the horticultural value chain: from seed to market, to aim to develop, together [...] and safe and allow access to premium markets. Just a few of the innovative technologies we have in place are: - Drain water is recycled, but first disinfected

• The importance of women in Agriculture

  August 15, 2022

  insecurity.” With this insight, it is important to look to the future of what jobs may look like for women wanting to build a career in agriculture. Laurika explains: [...] skills and training. Laurika du Bois is just the person to talk to when it comes to skills and training. Having grown up on a farm herself, she now serves the [...] machine learning) is further shaping these transformations in new and unprecedented ways.” According to a recent U.K report, jobs in 2030 can possibly

• HyFood takes habanero to another level with biological control

  mite and thrips in time and release in a timely manner the beneficial that each one requires and thus be able to harvest a good product". A certified product [...] the total volume exported is destined. "One of the main challenges we face in exporting to the United States is that there is a legal framework that prohibits [...] reliable partner To be consistent with its philosophy, HyFood needed to minimize its agrochemical applications. To achieve this, the implementation of an integrated

• La Hacienda Fresh increases crop profitability thanks to biological control

  release in a timely manner... we have seen the impact reflected in a safe environment for the worker and a better quality of fruit for export, since it is produced [...] This is attested to by La Hacienda Fresh, a company that has developed great expertise in the integrated management of pests and diseases, making it a benchmark [...] have had a positive impact on their crops. "Koppert products are easy to implement, as long as we go hand in hand with the consultant to be able to release

• Spidex Vital: Your Vital partner in spider mite control

  delivered in a new formulation; with a greater impact on spider mite control: Spidex Vital Born to fight Spidex Vital predatory mites are born to fight your [...] travelling the given distance. In a bottle of Spidex Vital a more diverse population composition is present, so when applied in hotspots the adults are followed [...] gradually change to the characteristic red-orange color. This takes 1-2 days. After introduction of “white” Spidex Vital it therefore is a clear proof of