• The importance of women in Agriculture

  August 15, 2022

  has been a specialist in recruitment within the agricultural industries in Southern Africa for the past 12 years. With a background in Chemistry, she quickly [...] starting block, or needed reminder, for a career in agriculture. When exploring the possibilities for a career in agriculture two valuable viewpoints that provide [...] industry.” Elaine shares that she has observed an increase in dynamic women entering the industry in recent years, as companies are becoming more diverse and

• A decade of investing in South African soil

  August 24, 2022

  Frank remembers: “The winter months in the early years delivered no income. In the last few years, we had to face COVID and now the war in Europe. But through [...] South Africa for the first time in 1995, the country and its’ people made such an impression on Frank that he returned in 2007. He and Ingrid established [...] d their first company, Vistaverde, in 2010, and finally started Koppert South Africa in August 2012. Taking to the road, he spent hours, days, months,

• In control with Koppert: Biological crop protection since 1967

  protection solutions for different pests and diseases in outdoor crops, like onion, potatoes, winter wheat, pumpkin, beetroot, parsnips and carrot. Our solutions [...] provide support and additional information. Get in touch Who are we? Koppert is a global company specializing in biological crop protection solutions. For over [...] Centre The Koppert Outdoor Experience Centre is an extensive demo, located in Dronten, The Netherlands. At this demo field, we are showing our latest biological

• Happy Women’s Day!

  August 8, 2022

  Jean-Mare Truter, her love of nature motivated her to work within the agricultural space. “I have always wanted to work in nature. In working for Koppert [...] The growing influence of women in agriculture in South Africa abounds, and although there are so many praiseworthy stories of female farmers, we also need [...] take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost

• Aphids

  betraying their presence in the crop. There are two types of aphid species: those that change to other host plants in the winter, and those species that [...] Potato virus Y (PVY) is transmitted by aphids in tomato in this way, as is the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in cucumber. How to get rid of aphids Horiver Disc [...] family containing many species that cause damage in cultivated crops. The most significant aphids that occur in greenhouses are: Myzus persicae subsp. persicae

• Melon

  are: Watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus ) Muskmelon ( C. melo ) Winter melon ( B. hispida ) Cantaloupe Honeydew Sugar Melon Galia melon

• Mediterranean fruit fly

  fruit to pupate in the soil. C. capitata does not survive sub-zero winter temperatures.It is well named as ‘Mediterranean’, after the area in which it survives [...] widespread in Africa, the Mediterranean basin and South America. Ceratitis capitata is a highly polyphagous species whose larvae develop in a very wide [...] the flesh of the fruit. As each fly lays several eggs in a fruit and different flies may lay eggs in the same fruit, the number of larvae per fruit can be

• Citrus thrips

  cannot survive on mature, hard foliage. They feed most often in narrow crevices created by folds in leaves or under the calyx of a fruit due to their thigmotactic [...] General Citrus thrips is originally described from various localities in South Africa and is indigenous. It occurs throughout Southern Africa, East Africa [...] when fruit is small, which may become brown when exposed to the sun later in the season. Severe scarring of fruit can occur up to 13 weeks after petal

• Long-tailed mealybug

  yield. Flowers and fruit often drop off. Plant sap is rich in sugars, but low in proteins. In order to gain an adequate intake of protein, mealybugs must [...] sale, and the reduced level of photosynthesis in the leaves also reduces flower and fruit production. In ornamental crops, the mere presence of mealybugs [...] first kept beneath the body in a network of fine waxy threads. Over two or three weeks, a female produces 100-200 nymphs. In the summer, the life cycle

• Green peach aphid

  important insect pest in sweet pepper, tomato, cucumber and many other greenhouse crops. The aphid may originate from Asia, where its winter-hardy host plant [...] occurs early enough in the season, the death of young plants. Retarded growth and defoliation reduce yield, Plant sap is rich in sugars, but has a low [...] quantities of sap to get sufficient protein. The excess sugar is secreted in the form of honeydew, making the crop and its fruit sticky. Black fungal moulds