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Fruit Logistica 2020 Horticulture

The team of the Italian company Arrigoni always sees many acquaintances at the fair and covers more topics than their textile solutions in the conversations. In the photo Maria Albero, Leonardo Mannarelli, Davide Daresta, Giuseppe Netti & Patrizia Giuliani

In the Italian hall, Pati's team meets the greenhouse builders of Lucchini and they are photographed with the one and only Don Mario of Palermo, who visits the fair on behalf of Guarniflon.

This year Lucchini opened their Greenhouse Parc, where various technologies are shown: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9184377/photo-report-new-techniques-shown-in-italian-greenhouse-park/

Capturing this photo reminds us of KUBO and of the number 75 - is it because Dennis van Leijde & Henk van Tuyl together will 75 years old this year?

The team of the young Israeli breeding company TomaTech. In a short period of time they have launched a wide range of tomatoes.

The Gautier team is showing the various tomatoes. A lot of attention to colour with the new yellow vine cherry C%91, which Frank Juan will tell more about soon. Now on the photo with Eric Barneron Jean-Marc Faou.

Avner Shohet & Yael Mandel of 2BFresh tell us that the company is opening more and more growing locations to be close to customers all over the world.

The products of the herb growers are becoming more and more popular.

Krzysztof Sak of Agronom Berries recently told how the company guarantees more stable production with hydroponic cultivation: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9170962/hydroponics-help-us-guarantee-constant-soft-fruit-supply/

Nayem Hassan of Russell IPM explains how to use biological solutions in greenhouses.

The expansion of the cultivation systems of NGS (New Growing Systems) has become impressive, both within and outside Europe, the USA and Canada. On the photo Donald Gartland, Salvadore Navarro, Jose Maria Montalban & Ana Maria Navarro.

Guillermo Baquero of J. Huete International with his colleague

The Novarbo team was nominated for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award with Mosswool, their sustainable alternative / additive for peat.

This year Plastika Kritis is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and the team of the British company XL Horticulture, which was visiting Plastika Kritis at the time of the photo, is looking forward to a party!

Mario Cardelli and Francesca Bena from Artigianfer.

Ulrika Sandford & Graham Dunne of Heliospectra

Jeppe Baun, export manager at Ellepot, shows the Ellepot Organic 2.0 solution

Maria Isabel Kortabarria from Ulma

Eugenio Roelofs & Jack Endhoven with De Ruiter pay a visit to Peter Koneman & Justin Schoemaker with Priva

Martijn Meens & Mariska Dreschler of the GreenTech Amsterdam and the GreenTech Mexico.

Juan Miguel Morales chatted for three days and had just time for a snapshot on Friday afternoon.

Patrick Casteleyn & Koen Van Gorp of Mechatronix

Krzysztof & Karol Korzeniewski were also be present in Gorinchem in two weeks, where they will tell us more about the machines of FHPU Maryniaczyk and the tomato hooks of Myhooks.

The monitoring and weighing solutions of Gremon Systems.

The lamps from SananBio. Reinier Donkersloot has joined the company in Europe, but was just at the moment of the picture walking around. Now in the photo Kido Wu & Ma Jian.

Always present at the show: Johnny Rasmussen and Morten Krage of Senmatic.

Vincenzo Russo from Vifra tells more about the humidity in the greenhouse and how to achieve the optimum level.

A young Polish grower visits P-TRE to learn more about the ideal gutter system. In the autumn we will post the photos of the project.

Marcello Galatii, Franco Limbarino & Jean-Piere LeJeune of Europrogress.

Kalum Balasuriya from Botanicoir. They are visited by new customers and many good friends at the fair.

This week Folium was launched, Autogrow's new wireless networking solution so Darryn Keiller had every opportunity to laugh. Read more about this product here: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9187146/autogrow-launches-wireless-smart-sensor-network/

Hardly visible behind the mega screen, but here is the team of Meteor Systems: Marc Staring, Peter Lexmond, Irina Stegeman, Sebastiaan Smeur & Arnold Bol.

Pounraj Kulandaivel and his colleague Teresita from Vaighai

Joel Enns and Michiel de Jong from Moleaer show the Bloom, the installation to add extra oxygen to the water.

Simon Willemen and Bram Vanthoor from Hortiplan tell about the mobile gutter systems for lettuce.

Keith Thomas and Alexander Habinski from Tungsram, LED lamp manufacturer.

Time for drinks at the Fluence booth.

Edward Verbakel and Robert Marks of VB catch up with Patrick Borenius & Tero Rapila of Green Automation.

The team with Farminova was present at the show for the first time

The team of MJ Tech at their regular spot on the show

That's 12 times Richel ready for the Fruit Logistica 2020! Soon more news about the dehumidifier they developed.

Antonio garcia, Guillermo Baquero and Isabel Ruiz of JH Hydroponic Systems.

Hen van Gaalen, Olaf Mos and Maurice Duijn van Gakon. Gakon is currently taking care of the expansion of Steiner Gemuse in Germany.

Wouter Heezen with De Gier

In the booth of De Ruiter many panel discussions were held

Tom Vroegop and Frank Druyff of Koppert Biological Systems

Tom van Veen, Marco Zwinkels and Jason Kamphuis with Prins Group

Ton Versteeg of Bom Group

Arlet Dechering and Jeroen van Buuren with Delphy

Arjen Janmaat and Rob Veenstra with the new fire retardant blackout cloth. It is used in cannabis cultivation and other exposed crops.

La Pietra, Koos de Wit (Signify), Nico van der Houwen and Dario Pobric (Agrolux)

Jerry Arkensteijn van Beekenkamp Packaging with the new 34 hole miniplug tray. This tray can be used for strawberry and raspberry cultivation.

At Kekkila-BVB, sustainability is of high importance. In the photo Johan van Gelderen, Goncalo Fonseco, Eric Boot, Karoliina Moberg, Hans Nendels and Dennis Knelissen

Andrea Pro, Natxo de Elvira Careaga, Michel Witmer and Hassan el Khallabi of Groen Agro Control.

Koos de Wit and Udo van Slooten with Signify

Arie Meeuwissen, Paul Verhoef and Cor Taks of Taks Handling Systems

Koppert Machines

Sander Reukers, Jeanette de Bruijn and Matthijs van Zandwijk of Greefa at iQs Performance Plus. iQS records a large number of high-resolution images at a high speed, making it possible to accurately determine the quality of each individual fruit.

Rob from Adrichem from Hortimat doing serious business on the Fruit Logistica

Peter van der Putten and Guus Vostermans of Vostermans Ventilation. Their new corporate film can be found here: https://youtu.be/04r811o9T5o

Frank Vriends and Rob Valke with Beekenkamp Plants. They show the growing possibilities in fruit- and outdoor crops.

Sudlac by now has 60 years of experience in glasshouse coatings. Michiel Seignette: "From low to high tech solutions and from temporary to removable coatings."

Karel de Bruijn, Jan de Smet and Ron van der Knaap (Van der Knaap Group / Forteco)

Joris Bogaerts of Bogaerts Logistics

Berg Hortimotive and HortiKey are present together

Bart Eekhout with Flier Systems

Kees van Dam (Koat) and Richard Vialle (One of a Kind)

All of Codema's disciplines are well represented with their demo unit, shown by Roeland van Dijk and Thomas Bauer.

Koen Lauwerijssen (Den Berk Delice) and Leon Verkoelen (Berkvens Greenhouse Mobility)

In the stand at Hoogendoorn: Kevin Spoelder, Bart 't Hoen (Hoogendoorn), Nico Bikker (Berg Hortimotive), Martin Helmich (Hoogendoorn) and Bas Lagerwerf (Berg Hortimotive).

Barry Zuidgeest and Roger de Jagher (ReduSystems)

Marc Vijverberg (AAB)

Wouter de Jong (Ludvig Svensson), Bart van Schaijck (GeGe) and Ton Habraken (Ludvig Svensson)

Peter Colbers, Rob Gevers, Reinhold Will and Marie Legendre (Syngenta)

LetsGrow.com brought the Plant Empowerment Book, so anyone who wanted to browse through the book could visit Martin van Tol, Peter Hendriks and Ton van Dijk on the stand.

Kees Wagu, Miriam Kolen, Wouter Zieck and Geert Van de Voorde van Desch Plantpak with in the foreground pots made of various materials, in which currently the blue pot, made of post consumer recycled plastic, gets extra attention in the market.

Joris van Calcar van Lankhorst Yarns passed by the stand at Desch Plantpak and got into conversation with Miriam Kolen with Desch Plantpak about the current PLA popularity and scarcity in the raw materials market.

Ronald Thijssen (Maurice Kassenbouw), Lizan Verbong, Niels Jacobs and Renvan Haeff (Light4Food) traditionally worked together at the fair. Light4Food has had its own machine division since 2018, with which it has developed fully mechanised growing systems. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9186686/light4food-has-everything-in-order-with-mechanized-cultivation-system/

For Elpress Robert Topolski, Marco Bruno and Peter Hogervorst were photographed.

Elpress brought a hand disinfection post for those who wanted to disinfect their hands while walking over the fair.

Kees Gunter, Peterjan Goedegebuure, Jurian de Graaf and Jan-Kees Boerman of EMS liked to take pictures with the Gas Analyser III, which is being discovered by more and more growers. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9180211/proper-use-and-control-of-nox-in-greenhouse-can-increase-yield/

Jeroen van Leeuwen, André Funk (AgrowTec) and Eric van der Klauw of AgrowSer spotted in hall 8.1, this year renamed 'greenhouse horticulture technology hall' at the fair.

Stefan Nieuwenhuyzen and Wilfred Lange of Metazet FormFlex will continue to emphasise the importance of cultivation on gutters.

Oscar Nijman (Saarlucon), Twan Leurs and Marco van t Hart (Luiten Greenhouses) were visited by Jorien Schouten-Plak (Besseling All Techniek).

André van Berkel (Frames) and Vincent Dermience (Vyncke) shared a stand.

On the stand at the Oerlemans Packaging Group, cucumbers in biodegradable cucumber shrink film were shown. In the photo: Henri van Hemert (Oerlemans Plastics), Rob de Leeuw and Ellen Schreur (Perfon) and Piet van den Oord (Oerlemans Plastics).

Marcel Weinans, Joyce van der Slik, Tom Zwijsen and Ben Hoogendoorn of Horticoop Technical Services briefly turned off the pink light in the background for the photo.

Ard Ammerlaan van Prudac shared a stand with Mooij Vegetables.

Frans Neijenhuis and Johan Ekers of The Recruiting Specialist stood in the busy hall 1.2.

Team ViVi on day 2 in Berlin: Damian Lopez Salazar, Robbert Jan in t Veld and Daan Mansveld.

You will have to believe it, because this is a photo and not a Tictoc, but the mobile cultivation system on the renewed stand of Bosman Van Zaal was in full swing.

Wim Blijleven with Indigo Logistics told us about ISAL, the software that allows growers to monitor plants in their greenhouse from sowing until they leave.

Takii Seeds presented vegetable concept Phytorich prior to the fair. On the photo: Rogier Laurens, Friederike van der Boon and Harm Custers. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9180730/takii-europe-launches-phytorich/

At Royal ZON Fruit Vegetables, the Spanish season is still in full swing and this year is a season with enormous price spikes due to the stormy weather. On the picture Wouter Willems, Els van Herpen, Leander van de Griend and Linda Naus.

Tom Klaus of Ferm O Feed told about the biostimulant Amino+, which helps the crop through drip irrigation as well as by applying it to the leaves.

Same hall, new place for Hortilux Schrder with in the picture: Hilde Lonsain, Henk Vollebregt, Vera Bouklakova and Kurt Zwemstra.

Hans Harting and Joek van der Zeeuw (Van Dijk Heating): familiar faces in a familiar stand.

At the end of day 2 not a meter of beer but a meter of healthy snack vegetables at Greenco that, as Robert Ketelarij told us, is working on valuable collaborations with new concepts. In the photo from left to right Jos van Mil, Monique Adegeest, Robert Ketelarij and Richard de Jong.

Drinks at the end of day 2 in hall 3.2 around the Freshplaza booth.

Dutch tomato grower Looye Kwekers ready for day 3, on which snack tomato Moyo was in the spotlight again.

Always asparagus time at Bejo Zaden, also early in the morning.

Only after the photo was taken, the Axia Vegetable Seeds team was allowed to leave the stand at the beginning of day 3.

Bas Duijvestijn, Anna Sichinskaya (Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects) and Ronald Begelinger (Patron Agri Systems).

Viscon's focus this time in Berlin was on the automation of packaging halls in the AGF sector. In the photo Konrad Kloskowski, Wouter van den Berg, Jaimy Lee Nicodem and Tim Huijben.

Thomas Hoetericks of Octinion next to the UV-C robot Lumion.

Bram Tijmons and Sara Daoudi of PATS Indoor Drone Solutions, who brought a miniature version of the system in which the drone destroys unwanted insects in the greenhouse with its wings.

Sander van der Zeijden Peter du Crocq and Klaas Brouwer of VanDerEng at the label printer who recently worked overtime with the introduction of the mandatory plant passport.

Dennis van der Wiel of Polariks, who is developing security cameras to better monitor the crop in the greenhouse. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9131812/security-camera-helps-grower-take-action-before-it-s-too-late/ — Dennis van der Wiel of Polariks, who is developing security cameras to better monitor the crop in the greenhouse.
https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9131812/security-camera-helps-grower-take-action-before-it-s-too-late/

All participants and the programme of Start-up Day on Friday 7 February

Johan Kreeft and Ab van Staalduinen of Gearbox Innovations which, after the introduction of the digital judge, is now also working on new parts of the product family.

Ed Smit and Rene Snijders of Jungle Talks paid a visit to the start-up corner.

Michiel van Bennekom, Kees Veldhuijzen and Eloy Boon with Iribov, active in tissue culture. Also in soft fruit, for which the company is certified by Naktuinbouw.

Pieter Ammerlaan (Havecon) and Robert Marks (VB Group)

Unfortunately our photographer missed the exact moment when everybody was sniffing the cresses at Koppert Cress

Andrzej Kornafel with Citronex. The Polish company introduced fresh cut fruit salads with IFS certification. The salads can be a mix with whatever fruit the consumer wants and have a shelf life of eight days.

Kris Goen and Rob Gevers, new at Syngenta. The breeding company is looking forward to the opening of the new demo greenhouse, which is currently under construction in Maasland.

Hugo Nijgh and Jan Willem Lut of Sercom flanked their Polish dealer Maciek Pula.

Liesbeth Broekhuizen and Arie van de Wijgert of Komeco focus on fertilizing soil-bound crops, with special fertilizer pellets available for organic farmers.

Tim Busschops and Niels Lauwers of 30Mhz took a tour of the show

Arjan van der Leest of Jiffy was photographed with colleagues Jürgen Rost and Roelof Drost n the successfully grown young raspberry plants in Preformaplugs.

Steven van Paassen, Vera van Hoondert and Jan Doldersum. Rijk Zwaan presents at Fruit Logistica Sn!b. Sn!b is the marketing concept for their snack vegetables.

John Schoeber, Martijn Davids, Stefan Pohl, Sjoerd Gipmans and René Schuurmans from Limgroep. Their new strawberry variety, Limvanera, has just been launched on the market in South America.

Mediane... sustainability is the key word

Jeremy Chabanis, Valve Chain Lead EAME, from Syngenta with Yoom. Yoom is the winner of the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award.

Jose Carretero van Stolze turned 50 during the Fruit Logistica. Happy birthday, Jose!

Chakkaaaa!! Monarch has been launched: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9187693/size-matters-in-the-horticultural-industry/ Jan Mol is in the photo with Pien Stams & Peter Barentsen. — Chakkaaaa!! Monarch has been launched: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9187693/size-matters-in-the-horticultural-industry/

Jan Mol is in the photo with Pien Stams & Peter Barentsen.

Liesbeth Broekhoven and Arie van de Wijgert of Komeco

Rob Bekkering and Jack Vijverberg with Van der Valk Horti Systems

Machiel Paans, Jeffrey Kramer, Piet Rutten and Cock van BommelMachiel Paans: "If a vegetable plant could choose, it would choose ErfGoed". — Machiel Paans, Jeffrey Kramer, Piet Rutten and Cock van Bommel
Machiel Paans: "If a vegetable plant could choose, it would choose ErfGoed".

Mario Taal, Johan Bellekom and Fred Bosch from Gavita.

Thiark Sietzema from Cultilene with Cara Met. This sensor measures moisture, ec and temperature in the mat: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9175199/the-new-standard-in-substrate-measurements/

Dave Sweet Milk and Siebe Duivenvoorde with Celtic

Edward Verbakel and Robert Marks with VB

Intracare is working hard to find a solution to the virus problem.

Sander Zuidgeest and Nick Groenewegen of Steenks Service

Van der Knaap Group: Karel de Bruijn and Ron van der Knaap. Their bioreactor is now Skal certified. So ... there will be an organic fertilizer bioreactor available on the market in Western Europe! https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9150863/same-yield-and-quality-with-organic-fertilizer/

Sorma Benelux: Mr / Mrs Iterson, Daniël Tol, Vincent Corsel, Romke van Velden, Fernando Goeree, Evert Jan Wassink and Cor Wassink.

Vincent Kuijvenhoven (Grodan)

Jerry Arkensteijn and Aart Jan Bos with one of their latest products: breeding tanks for mealworms and black soldier flies.

Nico Niepce (Alweco)

Albert van Dam, Trintech

The whole De Rider team. In collaboration with Red Star, they tested Delisher's most popular packaging.

Nico van der Houwen (Agrolux) and Jilles Goedknegt (Stolze)

Dennis van Leijde of Kubo. Kubo celebrates its 75th anniversary this year

The Fruit Logistica featured several companies in the British pavilion, including Berry bpi agriculture, Veg-UK Ltd, White Air Solutions Ltd, Berry Gardens Ltd & James Hutton Ltd. In the photo, the team of Martin Lishman Ltd with their fruit loggers ImpactRack. In the picture Gavin & Carol LIshman.

Jeffrey van der Sande, Martin Veenstra and Edwin Vanlaerhoven of Certhon. In March / April the last extension of their innovation centre will be opened.

All the way from Finland Tero Rapilo en Patrik Borenius of Green Automation

The team of Armando Alvarez was certainly also present at the show.

Pöppelmann presented an example from the sustainable packaging range: Famac packaging for tomatoes has now established itself in the German food trade. 100% recyclable packaging for pot herbs was also presented in Berlin. The company is currently working on reusable trays for fruit. In the photo: Gerhard Brock and Marketing Manager Arno Zerhusen.

MMM is a supplier and consultant in the field of fruit and horticultural technology.

HerkuPlast is an internationally operating supplier of trays and pots for commercial horticulture. The company is located in the southeast of Germany.

Panel discussion during Koppert's event on Wednesday

Monarch was launched by Oreon

Alexander Visser, Norman van der Gaag and Otto Vink (his birthday was Friday!) at the latest technology of Aweta, Ultravision is a piece of hardware that can be built in and provides analysis of all camera images.

The SPID grow trays can be found at the fair every year.

Dick van der Wel of Vellekoop Makelaardij-Onteigeningszaken

Peter van den Dool has joined Van der Knaap and is on the picture with new colleague Jan de Smet.

The Syngenta team is smiling as if they already know that later this week they will receive the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award with the Yoom tomato.

Also at Takii various tomatoes.

Some Italian companies are photographed by our mad reporter Cristiano.

The Haygrove team is currently tunneling a large strawberry farm in northern Germany and is seeing more and more large scale soft fruit projects emerge.

Rainer Weiss from VOEN, specialised in covered crops

Scarabelli showed solutions for water in both agriculture and horticulture. In the photo Luca Marzocchi & Stefano Vertuans.

The growing solutions of Plastic Box.

The team of AgriPolyane was visited at the fair by French colleagues. On the photo Jose Gongora, Bertrand Salkin

Alessandro Pasquellato of Simonetti is visited by Benito Cianci of Vario Systems.

The team with Knecht was in a meeting since they had a very busy show

The Fertil team does good business thanks to the unpopularity of plastic.

Benito Cianci, Gaia Galocka Giuliani and Claudio Cantelli of Vario System

The STL Growlights

Ioannis Tsakiris of Daios Plastics explains their products to interested guests.

Tomas Pernas of Fertri was present in Berlin.

Saturn Bioponics

80 Acres Farms' Mike Zelkind visits the show with Sverker Lindbo (Ocado) and Tisha Livingstone (Infinite Acres).

Nikos Kadoglou & George Papagiannis of Thrace. Within a fortnight they will also present their flame retardant ground cover at the HortiContact.

Eelkje Pulley of the Greenhouse Guide and Jorien Plak van Besseling

Giovanni Ferri of Agritettura

Kostas Tsonakis and his colleague with INA Plastics

Tayyar Erzurumlu from IFG Cresco

Storex and EMS have jointly produced an ethanol meter for the quality monitoring of apples during storage.

Of course a tour through hall 8.1 by horticultural guru Peter Klapwijk

Daniele Airoldi and Elisabetta Pircher of Italian technical textile manufacturer Aduno are expanding their product range.

Marco de Bruin of Equilibrium Capital / Revol Greens visiting Dry Hydroponics.

Textiles Agricolas

Three days of explaining the machines and then time for a photo...

Jan de Smet van Van der Knaap and Jacob Tsonakis from INA Plastics know each other well from Mexican horticulture....

Fischer's team shows their textile solutions

At the beginning of the year, the Roam Technology team had a full schedule to show the Huwa-San products, based on stabilized hydrogen peroxide, to many interested parties.

Parus brought not only their LED lights but also the racks that can be removed and furnished plug-and-play. They attracted a lot of attention...

The cultivation system of Parus

Conversations at Rufepa's...

Gustavo Alvarez Perez of Asthor

The team of Opus Et Vita: : Giuseppe Calabrese, Federica Salentini and Giuseppe Scarpa.

Thorben Looije with Valto was walking the show in Berlin.

Tim Schartner & Frank van Kleef both grow greenhouse vegetables but both on the other side of the ocean

Almost in the dark by the bright light of their own lamps! Luckily we still recognize the BLV team.

The technology of the Swiss company Aqua4D helps growers of various crops with their water quality. Recently also in the Netherlands: https://www.bpnieuws.nl/article/9185505/nederlandse-kas-roeit-nematoden-uit-en-verhoogt-de-bloemenkwaliteit/

Andrea Bocchini, Davide Barotti & Alessandro Mazzacano of Urbinati

Marcel Schulte has his insect screen present.

Valter Gabriel from Da Ros is happy to explain his machines!

A team photo like BASF Vegetable Seeds, the photographer couldn't match it.

Group photo at the Cora Seeds stand. Left Maurizio Bacchi, Angelo Crucitti, Enrico Tarabusi, Alessandro Bacchi and Enrico Rappuoli.

Party at Syngenta when the company wins the Innovation Award.

The Cravo team is ready for a photo early in the morning but is chatting the rest of the day.

Frans van de Hulst, Marco Toussaint, Ton van Dalen, Jan Leegwater, Peter Stafleu and Cor Noordijk from Oxin Growers. The new name for the merged Best of Four and Van Nature.

Nijs, Gerco and Jan van Zuilen of Berry Brothers. They are 100% red berry growers and specialists in Dutch soft fruit. All packaging is possible. Next season the blueberries will be cut to resist the weather extremes. In 2020, white and black berries will also be available again. From April, red berries from Chile will be available!

Van Vugt the specialist in herbs. Dick Vogelaar (Postuma), Piet van Vugt, Thomas Bahlman and Eric Postuma.

René Cornelissen, Ad Coolbergen Monique Cornelissen of Ortolanda. Radish growers with offices in the Netherlands and Italy.

The Frisco team is ready to make a success of the second day of the fair.

Leo van der Ven and Patrick ten Have of Koppert Machines. Behind them is the multipacker that is suitable for packaging various snack vegetables. The machines de-nest, weigh and lid and can be used for both plastic and cardboard.

Fabrizio Iurato of Top Seeds International promoting the new brand Ikygai

Eyal Inbar and Haim Roseblum of Hishtil

NLMarc Broeren, Joop van Riessen & Michael Ploeg with Dalsem

Christian Oosterlaan and Chris Beets from VegHands.

Mikael Bazantay, Giel Peulen, Hubert Kuhling, Charl Dings with Novisem.

Wim Aalberberg and Henk Pennings of Advanced Berry Breeding.

Shakti Cocos team, with on the left their Australian distributor

Wouter Heezen (De Gier Drive Systems)

Theo Kleijweg from TK Topboiler with his 'son' Tom van Reeven

Breeding company Southern Seed. In the picture Salvatore Cassibba (general manager) and Giuditta Cassibba (administrative manager).

This tomato from Southern Seed looks like a black cherry tomato but has a yellow inside. The company describes it as tasty and healthy.

Henk Verbakel and Ramon Bol (Havecon)

Rob Baan from Koppert Cress looks at us from his greenhouse.

So you are looking for your own organic cultivation of Dutch grounds and 'suddenly' you have two of your own cultivation companies. Bio World, the organic branch of the Best Fresh Group, got it done. Organic greenhouse vegetables will be grown in IJsselmuiden and Sexbierum starting next season. "This means that the customer can now also choose to buy directly from the source", says Job van den Berg, director of the organic division of Best Fresh Group, which has been growing its own Spanish soil under the name Quality Life Produce (QLP) for three years now. Here on the photo with Nick van der Ree. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9186894/with-our-own-dutch-organic-cultivation-we-will-supply-customers-directly-all-year-round/

All soft fruit and Koen Mathijssen and Tim ter Stege at Beekers Berries

Robbert-Jan Schup from Koat

Richard Vialle of One of a kind, active in fresh produce robotization

Jelte van Kammen with Harvest House and Edwin de la Combé with CombiVliet

Paprika vendor Marco Bergman of Harvest House

Bart Zeevenhoven and Piet Daniels van Scherpenhuizen

Peter Buijks is Crop Sales Manager Paprika at Enza Zaden.

Marielle van den Berg and Stef Baetings of Prominent in the stand of DOOR

Michel Wittmer and Hassan el Khallabi from Groen Agro Control. Last year the lab opened a branch in Peru and there too the demand is very high.

WUR researchers Eelke Westera, Mattijs Montsma, Rick de Jong and Renate Brouwer

Mike de Waard no longer sells exotics but nowadays is active in tomatoes. Here in the photo with the cook and colleague Hendrik Lipicar from RedStar.

The Combilo team with Pieter Verduijn, Ruud Tellekamp, Linda Barzilay, Ferry Verbraeken, Dietmar van Meeteren and Randy Dijkshoorn.

Jörg Primus & Jörg Amft with Metasa.

Johanna Rietdorf-Große at the stand of Menno Chemie.

Melchior Coolbergen (sales manager), Gloria Della Vecchia (staff), William Coolbergen (manager) of Ortolanda bring radish to Berlin.

Rosanna Bertoldin and Belinda Piasentin of the horticultural company Simonato

And their new plastic-free packaging

Mirco Elmotti from Ortomec

Martino and Damiano Ghirlanda with Plastic Box

Geert Vilez, Olivier and Guy De Meyer of Demargro. Because of the mild temperatures this winter, the sales of winter vegetables are a bit disappointing. For strawberries the past year was very good.

David Bamps and Dominiek Noppe with Vergro. The company is building new premises in Sint-Katelijne-Waver.

Dominiek Keersebilck, Wim Demeulenaer, Remie Dewitte and Leslie Mareco of REO Veiling. REO has both French and Belgian products in the spotlight. In addition, the company will focus on chicory in the coming period.

Jeroen Vlayen, Raf Missotton, Philippe Appeltans and Jo Lambrecht of BelOrta.

Mario and Mariëtte Jordens with Gemex. The company will build new sheds and hopes to be ready next winter.

New concept of Den Berk: convenience tomato salads in three different flavours.

Peter Parms, Philippe Degree and Tom De Winter with Rotom.

The team of Coöperatie Hoogstraten with star chief Roger Vandamme.

The Stoffels team with the new commercial director Max Verheijen.

Stefaan Vandaele from Demtec brings the press pots back to the attention of the visitors.

Lieven Wouters with Fertikal. The crop protection sector is booming due to the increasing popularity of organic.

Antonio Chiafullo, Francesco and Walter Ruggia from Retilplast.

Lux Ledlighting, Cesare Alberti.