Octinion's strawberry-picking robot in world's first commercial launch

The Belgium-based company describes the technology as "crucial for the sector" and says it will launch harvesting robots for other crops in the coming years.

February 01 , 2019

The Biocontrol Brief: Discovering the classical biological control approach

In the second of our educational series on biological pest control, Thomas Grandperrin takes a look at the history and practice of classical biocontrol.

January 16 , 2019

First bananas grown without soil to be harvested

The initiative, which is part of an association between Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Chiquita, is aimed at preventing the spread of TR4.

December 10 , 2018

Flies play important pollination role in Arctic region, study finds

The abundance of a relative of the ubiquitous housefly has been found to impact the seed production of northern plants.

October 25 , 2018

Apeel avocados expected at every U.S. grocery store within a year

The California-based company has developed a plant-derived product that is sprayed onto freshly harvested produce and can boost shelf life by two or three-fold.

October 24 , 2018

Urban Crop Solutions offers a glowing and growing global future for indoor farming

The Belgium-based firm, one of 13 start-ups featured as this year's World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London, provides ground-breaking 'turnkey' vertical solutions for growers.

September 26 , 2018

Pink Lady and Bravo apples among the healthiest, study finds

Research carried out by the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) found the two apples are high in flavonoids.

August 31 , 2018

Argentina approves disease-resistant GM potato

The potato will help growers avoid losses from the PVY virus, which can result in yield declines of up to 70%.

August 21 , 2018

Tesco addresses food waste epidemic with game-changing moves

By working with farmers, suppliers and local charities, as well as tossing best before labels, the supermarket giant says less than 1 per cent of its food gets discarded.

July 27 , 2018

First red-flesh Kissabel apples harvested in Southern Hemisphere

Ifored consortium members including Unifrutti, Dutoit, and Montague have picked the first fruit being grown under trials, amid hopes of a commercial crop within three years.

June 25 , 2018