• Towards a chemical-free future in agriculture: The vision of grower Koen

  critical. Society expects more and more that agriculture is environmentally friendly and responsible. And that the vegetables consumers eat are safe. Future [...] . He emphasizes that the correct application of methods is essential for achieving optimal results. Koen's perspective highlights that effective crop [...] traditional and organic is actually quite pleasant," he explains. He emphasizes that his approach stemmed from both practical considerations and a conscious choice

• Black leg of seedlings

  General Pythium is considered a ‘weak pathogen’, meaning that it can usually only affect plants that are in a sub-optimal condition or suffer from stress, [...] damaged spots. On the infected plant, new sporangia with zoospores are formed, that allow the disease to spread to neighbouring plants. The zoospores disperse

• Grower Koen - Embracing biological crop protection in agriculture

  critical. Society expects more and more that agriculture is environmentally friendly and responsible. And that the vegetables consumers eat are safe. Future [...] . He emphasizes that the correct application of methods is essential for achieving optimal results. Koen's perspective highlights that effective crop [...] agriculture is hopeful. He believes that the reduction of chemical methods paves the way for organic alternatives that can complement traditional farming

• Damping-off

  General Pythium is considered a ‘weak pathogen’, meaning that it can usually only affect plants that are in a sub-optimal condition or suffer from stress, [...] damaged spots. On the infected plant, new sporangia with zoospores are formed, that allow the disease to spread to neighbouring plants. The zoospores disperse

• Bacterial canker of tomato

  General Clavibacter is a quarantine organism in Europe, which means that strong efforts are used to prevent the bacterium from entering. When the occasional [...] field and potatoes from other fields on the farm, are labelled as ‘suspect’ that year. On the infected field no potatoes or other Solaneceaous crops can be [...] ooze with bacteria in the case of C lavibacter infection, but other than that the disease is difficult to distinguish from wilting caused by other pathogens

• Koppert Foundation

  Koppert established the Koppert Foundation on their 50 th anniversary in 2017. This Foundation aims to contribute to sustainable solutions for horticulture and agriculture and improvement of the healt

• Caterpillars

  with more than 150,000 species, that are easily distinguishable from other insects. Many of the butterfly species that are active during the day can be [...] several species that damage greenhouse crops is the leafroller family, the Tortricidae. The name ‘leafroller’ refers to the fact that the caterpillars [...] Biological control of caterpillars Caterpillars are highly destructive pests that feed on leaves, stems and fruits, causing serious damage to greenhouse and

• Municipality Venray: biological control of oak processionary caterpillars

  benefit of Entonem is that nematodes kill fewer other caterpillars , which means they are less harmful to biodiversity. This is something that is high up on the [...] have been generally positive. ‘The trees that we have treated have been 90% cleared. What is interesting is that avenues running east to west are typically [...] still have some nests. It is possible that there has been more drift during spraying in those places, which means that the nematodes are more easily blown

• Trianum-P improves open field pepper production in Portugal

  ion, it is very important that all plants reach the end of their cycle with a high level of plant health and vigour so that the harvesting machine can [...] of producing and we decided to introduce new means that help protect the roots. It was in this way that we first learned about Trianum-P, a biological solution [...] Agrícola Militão highly values the fact that Trianum is a 100% natural product, authorized for organic farming and that it does not leave residues on fruit

• Roots Growers positive about Mycotal against whitefly

  crops. This is further aggravated by the fact that there are almost no effective chemical products that slot neatly into a biological control system. Roots [...] to death during crop rotation, so that the new crop starts off “clean”. But given the lack of effective products, that’s not an option.’ Halting whitefly [...] conclusions. We need more than one season of tests and analyses. That said, I did notice that the whitefly’s development cycle had clearly been inhibited in