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Expert Tips for Retail Greenhouse Profitability: Actionable Insights to Boost Sales and Enhance Customer Experience

Unlocking Retail Greenhouse Profitability: Essential Expert Tips

Unlock the secrets to retail greenhouse profitability. Get expert advice on cost analysis, irrigation systems, and more to ensure...

How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Climate Control Agriculture

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Revolutionary: How AI is Transforming Climate Control Agriculture

🌿 AI and the Greenhouse Industry: A Look at Emerging Technologies 🌿The greenhouse sector is seeing new developments with...

Leveraging Nature Against Threats In Controlled Environment Agriculture

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Beneficial Insects for Pest Control in Controlled Environment...

The use of beneficial insects in agriculture, particularly in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), has revolutionized pest...

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Exploring Mexico’s Greenhouse Farming Growth

Explore how Mexico's greenhouse farming revolution is reshaping agriculture and enhancing global fruit and vegetable exports...

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Insect Farming in Greenhouses: The Future of Sustainable Protein...

When combined with Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), insect farming offers a sustainable alternative to traditional...

Colombia horticulture and grenehouse industry is very promising

Colombian high-lands premium quality fruit...

11 October 2020

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The region of Rio Negro in the Colombian region (South America) near the city of Medellin is one of the best place in the world producing high-quality fruits like physalis, passion fruits... Below a glimpse of my field visit in 2017 with...

Colmbian horticulture market a promising future

Colombia (South-America) : A diversity of...

11 October 2020

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Intensive vegetable production has grown in the Colombian high mountains (> 1000 m elevation) to meet changing food demand in urban markets. The flowers industry is historically a strong in the country more particularly around Medellin and...

Black pepper production in the Sarawak region, Borneo island in Malaysia

Sarawak (Borneo) black pepper production in...

19 September 2020

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The black pepper quality from Sarawak, Borneo is renowned around the world. This photo report is an opportunity to introduce a site visit done in 2019 with a Malaysian goverment agency near the city of Kuching (1h).

UV rays positive influence to the crops in horticulture

Why more growers are using UV-Open...

22 July 2020

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Some UV radiation can interfere with growth, development, photosynthesis, flowering, pollination and transpiration...

Awesome futuristic greenhouse structures in...

3 July 2020

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A glimpse of the excessiveness and futuristic architecture of Singapore through a photo report.

Active ventilation: a positive pressure...

3 July 2020

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The concept of positive pressure ventilation consists of mechanically injecting fresh air from outside to inside the greenhouse into the growing area. Positive pressure ventilation allows for maximum exclusion of insects and uniformity of...

Hemp seeds : a lot of potential in the agro-food industry

Hemp seeds : an emerging super food

4 May 2020

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Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a plant native from Eurasia and spread out to the rest of the world. Crop has been historically used for its fiber. The plant is considered as one of the most common forms of cannabis as well as the type with the...

Site visit in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka to...

28 March 2020

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The Sri Lankan highlands are famous for the tea cultivation for year. Cooler temperatures especially at night shows an interest to grow other crops such as leafy greens and tomato in greenhouse.

Intensive hemp production under plastic greenhouse

Benefits of hemp cultivation under...

23 March 2020

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Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) has been cultivated for many years in the world. The plant has been used to make ropes, sails and clothing. Indeed, hemp fibers, found on the outside of the hemp stalk, are the most resistant...

Review of 5 years spent in the greenhouses...

22 March 2020

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Between 2015 and 2019, I had the chance to be the sales and technical manager for a French greenhouses manufacturer (plastic/glass) in South-East Asia. The subsidiary office was based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia not so far from the famous...