Flower Industry Articles & Analysis
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In the nursery and landscape industries, flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa), and their hybrids are the most popular and economically significant members of the genus Cornus. ...
Quick Facts Ontario is the third largest producer of greenhouse floricultural products in North America, behind California and Florida. The greenhouse flower industry is now Ontario’s seventh largest agricultural sector. ...
Mr Musson runs WAFEX, a vertically integrated flower business comprising breeding, production and marketing. With offices in Perth, Melbourne, Kenya and the USA, WAFEX is a global business, trading in 26 countries. ...
Two new varieties of hybrid maize that are resistant to the deadly parasitic Striga weed have been developed by a Kenyan scientist. The weed affects cereal crops in many parts of Africa and is a major cause of crop failure in East Africa, where climate change has been driving its spread in recent years. Mathews Dida, a maize breeder in the school of agriculture and food security at Maseno ...