• Does Swirskii Really Do What it's Intended To?

  June 5, 2019

  whitefly happily flying around during the first days after application. And as it's so easy to spot, you may quickly draw the conclusion that the treatment [...] the predatory mite, it will starve. This sounds logical, but for crops such as roses and strawberries, growers can only tolerate a very low level of pests [...] little for Amblyseius swirskii to eat its fill and produce enough offspring. As such, you would always have to use new predatory mites . But there's another

• IPM: The Path to a Successful Approach

  April 23, 2019

  is always: biological whenever possible, chemical when necessary. Learn as much as you can from colleagues with experience. Ensure that you and your employees [...] considerations, improving your own knowledge, and monitoring diseases and pests as resources to help you during your journey on the road to success. Getting [...] But all these tips mean you are confronted with lots of choices. How do you, as a grower, make the right choices? The step-by-step plan below is the perfect

• Get the growers’ guide to biological crop protection

  April 13, 2018

  empowers you with knowledge about the pest’s lifecycle and its many phases, as well as giving you the ability to recognize the pest or disease you are up against

• Fusarium opens the door to other diseases and pests

  June 29, 2022

  insufficient nutrition can cause a plant to become weak, but aggressive fungi such as Fusarium can also have a devastating impact on plant resilience. This opens [...] Plants have a natural resistance to diseases and pests, which is essential as there wouldn't be any plants otherwise! This natural resilience keeps crops [...] plant to weaken, opening the door to parasites that target weakness, such as the pathogen Pythium . But there is a solution: by applying Trianum you can

• Koppert Biological Systems Takes Over Horticoop’s Biological Crop Protection Activities

  October 2, 2018

  essential role in the development, sale and distribution of our products as well as integrated crop protection in general. Koppert wishes Horticoop a successful [...] will take over the biological crop protection activities of Horticoop B.V. as of 1 November. The takeover includes Horticoop’s customer base, its patents [...] supplying Horticoop’s customers from its own headquarters in Berkel en Rodenrijs as of 1 November. The transition period for this is already in an advanced stage

• Premium quality around the world

  March 17, 2023

  that the distance between Koppert's live products and the growers is as short as possible. With more than 100 distribution countries, Koppert is equipped [...] Dispatch Department has its own customs zone that Dutch customs have declared as safe for our shipments. We securely pack our products here, to avoid time [...] dispatch live products, which often need to reach growers in a matter of days. 'As the global market leader, we deliver impeccable quality and leave nothing

• The top ten pests in roses

  August 18, 2022

  quite often be done with natural enemies. Whitefly The name is misleading as this species is not a fly but an insect related to aphids . The whitefly punctures [...] It also injects enzymes into the plant that can cause side effects, such as yellow discoloration. In addition, the whitefly transmits viruses. There are [...] and forming a basis for fungus to grow. And the trouble does not end there, as aphids also transmit viruses. Caterpillars Caterpillars are the larvae of

• Koppert is Investing in Smarter Scouting

  May 29, 2019

  technology such as image recognition powered by machine learning, which will make the app self-learning and ensure that it becomes more accurate as time progresses [...] ‘Thanks to this innovation, growers can scout more quickly and efficiently as well as combat infestations in a more targeted way,’ says Vroegop. ‘Reducing time

• Koppert Teams Up for First Automated Lettuce Farm in the UAE

  June 17, 2020

  Farms is making use of specialist technologies from top Dutch suppliers such as Van der Hoeven Horticultural Products, Hoogendoorn Growth Management, Green [...] more than two years looking into automated and data-driven techniques such as climate control, biological control of pests and diseases and more. Their [...] Yassin Lahiani. "The experience gained in the Mediterranean regions such as Spain and Morocco are already being applied in the Middle East for many years

• Increase in Thrips Infestation Demands More R&D

  December 4, 2019

  cultivation consultant Jenette Douma cites the situation in the Netherlands as an example, where for many years it was assumed that only the Western flower [...] shown that infestations can be quite extensive. "We have seen species such as the Echinothrips , Thrips setosus , and Dichromothrips corbetti appear. A [...] Thrips setosus , or Japanese thrips. This species was hardly scouted at all as growers had assumed that they didn’t have it in their crops – it turned out