horticulture industry Articles
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An empirical study of the underground economy in the Kingdom of Belgium
This article investigates the underground economy in Belgium. Although several government initiatives are attempting to combat underground economic activities, we found illegal foreign workers identifying opportunities and fulfilling market needs. Underground employment thus thrives in a variety of sectors, including the building sector, cleaning houses, delivery jobs, garage business, ...
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Environmental policies for agriculture in Europe
This study analyses the environmental policies in Europe and particularly in The Netherlands. Comprehensive analysis of their policy package, which includes environmental taxes, tax exemptions, and the voluntary environmental agreement are provided. Each method does seem to show significant effects to reduce the environmental bads. This paper also presents an economic analysis of the glasshouse ...
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Compressibility Properties of a Horticultural Peat
The compressibility of a typical horticultural peat has been studied in the laboratory. Compressibility is an important factor in the processing of this material since volume governs the cost of shipping. The final reconstituted volume and the appearance of the peat after shipping must also be taken into account for marketing. Compression tests have been carried out on a horticultural peat from ...
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Bulk Bagging for Mulch and Top Soil
BULK BAGGING FOR MULCH AND TOP SOIL – RMGROUPS INSTALLATION ENGINEERS ARE IN FINLAND WITH OUR CUSTOMER WHO SUPPLY TOP SOIL, MULCH AND SMALL AGGREGATES. With 40 years experience in the industry, our customer specialises in earth and environmental materials, soils, mulch and aggregates. The system that will work best for them is the BB150-C bulk bagger. The BB150-C can fill up to 2 bags a ...
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Lighting Strategies for Ornamental Crop Production
The ornamental horticultural industry is diverse and made up of flowering potted plants, cut flowers and bedding plants. Ornamentals have specific lighting requirements needed to grow high quality and consistent crops. Since many bedding plant varieties are started in winter, lighting becomes important for managing early growth stages and to ensure products are in a condition ready to be shipped ...
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Our Goal is to achieve Dutch yield numbers in Chinese greenhouses
In recent years, more and more high-tech greenhouses have been realized in China, and the use of high-end techniques has become more common in the Chinese market. Whether it is for planting, for the greenhouse or for the management, more growers opt for automation and quite often turn to Dutch solutions. Since 2002, Beijing Ruixue Global Co., LTD. has helped bring these technologies to China. ...
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Indicators for objective determination of internal performance factors during postharvest operations
Work design traditionally focuses on machine capacities, and often neglects the role of people within the production processes. In order to successfully deploy and manage human resources during industrial processing operations (such as horticultural postharvest), adequate knowledge of process times is crucial. These often vary owing to external and internal factors. The internal factors depend on ...
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Cold Storage Room manufacturer In Pune-2023
Falcon Refrigeration excels as a Cold Storage Room manufacturer In Pune, utilizing state-of-the-art technology and the finest materials.Falcon Refrigeration Industry is a Premium Company in manufacturing and installing complete cold Storage room solutions. As the finest Cold Storage Room manufacturer in Pune, we provide world-class quality products. We are committed to providing world-class PUF ...
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Correct management of ethylene levels could minimise or eliminate the need for refrigeration during the distribution chain of green bananas
A recently published scientific article (Reduction of energy usage during storage and transport of bananas by management of exogenous ethylene levels, Wills et al; Postharvest Biology and Technology 89 (2014) 7-10) quantifies the relationship between the concentration of ethylene, temperature and green life of the Cavendish banana. The results demonstrate that an efficient reduction in ethylene ...
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The Latest in Whitefly Control
Next month’s Greenhouse Canada Grower Day is welcoming leading researchers and crop specialists to help you tackle one of the industry’s biggest challenges. Whitefly is proving to be one of the most difficult pests to control, mainly due to the lack of effective registered chemicals that can eradicate silverleaf whitefly. It is also due to the unwillingness of biological suppliers to ...
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The efficacy of disinfectants against plant pathogens
In late 2015, a journal article from the European Journal of Plant Pathology was published on research regarding the efficacy of different disinfectants against plant pathogens in irrigation water. All testing as done by the Department of Primary Industries here in Australia for the horticulture and agriculture industries. The disinfectants tested included chlorine, chlorine dioxide (using our ...
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CoirGreen™ : Helping you think and act green
Many of us depend heavily on the environment to make a living. Yet, knowingly or unknowingly to us, our actions can have negative impact on the environment, such as leading to soil erosion and loss of vegetation. Therefore, it is vital that we take all necessary steps to protect and preserve the environment, while continuing our work. Natural, bio-degradable and sustainable, products made of ...
By CoirGreen
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Sustainability:What Does It Mean?
The term sustainability is used more and more but there is a multitude of different definitions and applications for this term in the horticultural industry. Sustainability is defined as the “avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.” When I started BioSafe Systems over 20 years ago, the terms “green” and ...
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Demystifying Light Levels for Cannabis Grows
As more and more investors, opportunists and growers are jumping onto the green rush that is the cannabis industry right now there is also a big influx of folks who are learning as they go. Lighting is a major purchase for this industry as a big margin of growers still prefer the better climate control and security of growing indoors and even those who choose to grow in a greenhouse are finding ...
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Is Horticultural Science in Crisis? What is Needed to Assure Its Future?
"Kenya has a shortage of competent horticultural staff at institutional and commercial levels." "Horticulture is facing a crisis in the United Kingdom." "Is horticulture a withering field in the USA?" "Concerns over shortage of agriculture graduates In Australia." "Uganda's flower sector faces an imminent shortage of qualified managers and supervisors in flower firms." "New Zealand ...
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British farms could turn to robots to deal with a post-Brexit labour crisis
LONDON — British farmers could turn to robots to fill gaps in their supply of labour if the UK's exit from the European Union causes a shortage of migrant workers to work in the industry. That is according to a new report from the Financial Times, which cites the creation of a new farming robot named Thorvald, designed to do unskilled but laborious tasks on the UK's farms post-Brexit. ...
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Can horticulture go from blue to green water?
#WaterMakesItPossible. That is so true for the millions of us that have been appreciating our green spaces and growing plants to keep us happy and busy through the recent Covid-19 lockdowns. Getting the watering right is probably the greatest challenge with our efforts either resulting in our plants dying, surviving or thriving. Although it might seem simple to ‘just add water to the ...
By Waterwise
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Tree Spades at Myplant & Garden Fair: where, when and why come to visit us.
Our tree spades will be present at Milan Myplant & Garden fair, which will be held from February 26th to 28th 2020: come and visit us to visit the splendid fair and get to know us! For us at Mac Bert it will be the first year, but the fair has attracted professionals from the green supply chain since 2015. The macro sectors involved (nurseries, flowers, decoration, landscape, machinery, ...
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CoirGreen joins millions across the world to mark Earth Day 2014
On March 29 this year, CoirGreen joined millions across the globe to mark EarthHour2014, encouraging our staff to turn off lights for one hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Earth Hour invites individuals, communities and businesses from across the world to turn off any lights that are not essential for one hour on the last Saturday of March every ...
By CoirGreen
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LED or HPS for Growing Cannabis?
“What lighting source should I use for my licensed cannabis grow?”; “I am comparing LED to HPS for my cannabis operation. Which source do you recommend?” These are questions people ask me almost on a daily basis. We have covered this question in past posts on our blog, like this one by our very own head of marketing: LEDs vs Traditional Lighting but most cannabis growers ...
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