Tag: growers
Pears are more popular with fruit growers than apples: ‘Pears thrive in our climate’
“Climate change is not good, but it has actually turned a bit for the better for the pears,” Gerritsen explains. “Because of the sun, more sugars enter the fruit, so…
Home growers of medicinal weed do not receive a permission letter from Utrecht: ‘Does not add anything’
Utrecht – Utrecht residents who grow medicinal cannabis at home do not have to count on a permission letter from the municipality. Various parties in the city council asked for…
Explosion among beet growers: “We fear early factory closures for lack of surface area”
Concern of French beet growers after the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union which considers illegal the exemptions granted in France to prohibited phytosanitary products. Sowing…
Organic growers suffer from pesticides from the neighbour
Pesticides that blow over organic farms have become a problem in Scania. Voices are now being raised for the use of the agent Prosulfocarb to be limited. – It is…
Tulip growers’ smart move: Heating greenhouses with bitcoin
In the Netherlands, tulip growers have found a new and original way to deal with the European energy crisis, and at best avoid bankruptcy. Here, the heat generated by solar-powered…
Weather has been a challenge for Chatham-Kent’s seed corn growers
There’s an old adage in areas of Southern Ontario where seed corn is grown: yields of the specialty crop are an indicator of what farmers growing field corn can expect.…
President Petro offers talks to coca growers
In Colombia, the new president Gustavo Petro multiplies the proposals to fight against drug trafficking: on Wednesday August 24, he had called on the traffickers to surrender, promising them not…
The drought in France’s Loire river valley also threatens wine growers, and the fields are not allowed to be watered – see how low the water is already flowing
In the last week, it has rained in France, but the drops brought only a small relief to the record drought. Almost the entire country is in a state of…
OM demands prison sentences and wants to take millions from directors of Nieuwegein wholesale for hemp growers
Nieuwegein – The two directors of a wholesaler in Nieuwegein who supplied all possible items for growing cannabis will go to prison for a year if it is up to…
Swedes buy bananas from vulnerable growers
previous full screen Next Sales of Fairtrade-labeled bananas are increasing globally, but in Sweden it is declining. 1 of 2Photo: Johan Hallnäs / TT The exposure of people who grow…