Energy is one of the largest expenses in greenhouse growing. Today, there are many technical solutions to help drastically cut the power bill. And yet, identifying the best possible setup among the many technical and climate solutions available, is still a huge challenge that needs to accommodate production targets.
• Hortinergy® is the first online tool to...
Making the right decision at the right time by automating your pest insect trapping network using the CapTrap® service!
The CapTrap® service relies on smart connected sensors designed by Cap 2020 to count insects in real-time. With no manual count required, very large pest populations can be monitored on the plots. The double selectiveness feature using both a...
Our range of ALPO electric tractors aims at redefining the concept of a tractor.
The idea is to support farmers on their way to soil-friendly agroecological approaches by putting soil back on the centre stage. This range boasts unprecedented versatility and modularity.
We have 3 models on offer:
– two-wheel drive
– four-wheel drive
– 4×4 straddle...
Leafcrop, Sencrop’s brand-new sensor system, is a major breakthrough for the tree, cider and winegrowing industries.
Leafcrop includes:
– 1 moisture sensor to find out - as currently performed - if there is any free moisture on the sensor, but also to determine the exact quantity. By mimicking the characteristics of a leaf and using the shape of a real leaf...
Amylo-X® WG is a fungicide based on a strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum D747 used for fungal and bacterial diseases in greenhouse and field vegetable crops, tree growing and winegrowing.
Amylo-X® WG has a triple action: competition for space on treated plants, direct fungicidal effect of lipopeptides and a natural immunity...
ARMELLE is the first strawberry variety selected on and for Réunion Island. It is a Ciref/Armeflhor co-variety created as part of a collaboration with the body in charge of designing new varieties within the French Strawberry Growers’ Association and the Fruit, Vegetable and Horticulture Technical Experimentation Centre on Réunion Island. Produced by Ciref...
Cordoba, a late autumn-early winter variety of Savoy cabbage, is the first of its kind to combine resistances to three major diseases, most harmful to this type of cabbage: clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae), white rust (Albugo candida) and ring spot (Mycosphaerella brassicae). Intended for the fresh product market, it combines all the following benefits:
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Sparkle RZ is a round-leaved variety of rocket. It is innovative both in shape, with smooth round leaves – similar to spinach- and taste, with an intense rocket flavour.
Excellent characteristics from the field to the plate:
• Original leaves, attractive in shape
• Subtle rocket flavour
• Thick leaves, with long shelf-life
• Very good vitality,...
TMSa®: Trouvons Mes Solutions adaptées (Let’s Find My Adapted Solutions)
This is a tool-based method enabling stakeholders in occupational health and hazard prevention (prevention advisers, occupational health doctors and nurses working for MSA, the social security body for agriculture in France) to raise awareness among decision-makers (business managers...
CarryBunch® is the first 100% biodegradable, 100% plant-based and 100% French bunch-holder for tomato plants. This bunch-holder is biodegradable in situ and, unlike composting, does not require an increased temperature to biodegrade. When pulling out tomato plants, CarryBunch® can stay on the plant, where it will decompose. No need to sort the bunch-holders...
Aromatic herbs never cease to amaze. Did you know that some plants can perfectly mimic unexpected flavours or scents such as garlic, mushroom, tarragon or even oysters!
Get ready an experience !
New Fieldbook App to monitor activities all the way to the plots. This Smartphone or tablet application directly records and shares in real-time any production-related information with all the teams who need it, regardless of production locations.
This mobile application with a GPS tracking feature enables you to record crop inspections, control operations,...
The Tract’Elec tool carrier is a 100% electric, clean, quiet and economical tractor.
With this easy-to-manoeuvre and user-friendly central tool carrier, hoeing, mechanical weeding and other operations on vegetable or herb beds are carried out with great precision.
A first prototype of this machine was presented at Sival 2018. The jury of the Sival Innovation...
Le Costelet® is a Charentais-type melon produced after a demanding selection process to find the right varieties and aimed at rediscovering flavours of the past.
This produce is an exquisite heritage-type melon. It really is one-of a-kind with an unusually smooth and ribbed look and a beautifully golden colour with gilded shades.
Le Costelet®’s...
Irrimax 2D is a tool intended for technical advisers to assess the efficiency of an irrigation system.
By positioning two or more Sentek sensors only a few centimetres apart, the Irrimax software creates a video showing moisture and root distribution and changes over time. The probing depth depends on the length of the sensors, with measurements carried out in...
DNA Multiscan offers rapid and cost-effective semi-quantitative screening for most (fungal and bacterial) pathogens affecting specialised crops. Designed by the Eurofins Expertise Centre on Greenhouse Growing in Wageningen (NL), this test only requires one analysis to detect and determine the extent of the pathogen presence from a list of 50 fungi and 10 bacteria...
TMP M is used to make blocks of soil for lettuce and cabbage seed-starting. It contains our very own TOURB’ACTIV®, which is highly suitable to form blocks of soil, and organic fertilising agents, so it is organic farming compatible.
Our substrate is made with Baltic sphagnum peat, a resource that is be readily available for many years to come, unlike the...
The groundbreaking Keeper provides real time analysis of the fuel quantity available in a tank, immediately pointing out any unusual drop.
In the event of a fuel theft or tank break-in, a 100dB alarm is set off and a SMS is sent to pre-programmed phone numbers as a real-time notification.
This device is fully non-intrusive, easy to install, fast and does not...
NOTIPHY BOX is a smart object developed in Burgundy by two research fellows. It is an efficient way to find out whether a plot has been treated with pesticides and to avoid contaminating professionals, hikers or local residents during the re-entry interval (REI). Last summer, several professional magazines as well as national newspapers (Le Point, le Nouvel Obs,...
OOH’Z® is an innovative brand of diversification crop seeds and plants intended to bring value to the entire vegetable growing sector in France.
The varieties under this brand combine innovative shapes, colours, flavours and types of use. The purpose of this collection is to help specialised producers and distributors diversify their product lines, while...
Sachet-on-a-stick is an innovative system that releases beneficial insects onto greenhouse crops. Easy to use, it helps efficiently apply biological control methods from the earliest cultivation days and weeks onwards, i.e. when plants are small and vulnerable. The major benefit is the ability to protect each plant individually: as leaves don’t touch each...
A natural preservation process using vacuum treatment, packaging and a special membrane for all organic produce: fruit, flowers, vegetables, meat, fish, mushrooms, live shellfish.
A READY-TO-PLANT BLACKBERRY BUSH (easy-to-use) to help with FRUIT PRODUCTION PLANNING (market regulation).
Fruit producers no longer have to take care of the nursery stage, which now takes place in a trained nursery to ensure both consistency and quality.
Growers can then use the area usually allotted to such operation for any other crop.
Planting from...
HOMEO DEKALC is a water treatment system using both electromagnetism and passive photonics (1)
HOMEO DEKALC is a natural process that acts on water structure and rebalancing. It works on 2 levels:
– Fragmenting mineral elements in water => all mineral elements in water are miniaturised = water restructuring.
Lime, iron, manganese are fragmented and...
KRYPTO + is a natural alternative solution to chemical plant protection products in the vegetable and winegrowing sector.
This plant maceration for foliar application is made with horsetail and willow bark. This multi-purpose biostimulant is compliant with the NFU 42004 standard on fertilisers. It contains mineral and oligo elements to boost the plants’...
ALY250 is the first biocontrol solution to a problem, which is widespread in Europe and expanding in France: Halyomorpha halys or Asian brown marmorated stink bug. This invasive pest is highly polyphagous and feeds on at least 300 plant species, including economically significant crops such as fruit trees, grapevines, vegetable crops and ornamental shrubs, trees...
Terrateck’s brush cutter hoeing machine comes as a response to a genuine concern expressed by professionals in the field. To what extent can producers weed the edges of plastic and biodegradable mulching without using chemical plant protection products?
Our hoeing machine is made of a conventional hoeing machine chassis, with manual control, on which...
The first connected seed catalogue. One printed edition for easy and free access to additional enhanced digital content. All you need to do is:
1. DOWNLOAD the FIROPRINT app on your smartphone or tablet
2. TAKE A PHOTO of a page in the catalogue with the Firoprint logo
3. BROWSE… to access crop fact sheets, technical advice, production calendars, videos…
ONLYWOOD is a type of packaging entirely made of wood, used to transport fruit and vegetables, cheese, fish, oysters. It is both elegant and robust.
This 100% compostable product with a constant tare ensures perfect stability on production lines (stacking).
It can be printed on all four sides, using flexographic or laser printing, and thanks to its handles and...
Canopy is a French-designed smart management system for irrigation and watering planning in farms or parks. Using in-field boxes, sensors and one access point, the operator can control them with the MySOLEM platform and an Internet or 3G connection. The long range in-field communication with autonomous modules to enable data exchange with the application and the...
Ponchon is an electric multipurpose straddle tractor that offers harvesting, planting and weeding support solutions.
Its main purpose is to wipe the words “arduous” and “tiring” from the vocabulary of market gardeners and wine growers. Its second goal is to automate simple tasks such as weeding, giving growers extra time to focus on more complex...
Ideal for storing fresh produce (meat, vegetables, fruit…), 2.63-11.23 m3, and direct selling at a chosen location, that can sometimes change, this Lib cold room is mobile and connected to a sensor linked with the LORA network to remotely record door openings and changes in temperature.
The sensor performs a measurement every 4 hours (programmable...
Do your crops have low tolerance to stress? / Still not rid of those diseases in spite of fungicide applications? / Are you struggling with fast wilting crop issues? / Are you dealing with controversial substances being withdrawn and not replaced?
Boost the natural immunity of your crops with Vertal Maraîchage!
A 2018 breakthrough by the Vertal group.
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The basic idea behind cross drainage is to drain rainwater from fruit or vegetables over a larger area.
This is achieved by defining a specific slope angle across the VOEN sheet and by setting up posts at two distinct heights along the length of the sheet. As a consequence, rainwater accumulates on the sheet in approx. ten-metre intervals to then be discharged...
The “Connaître et reconnaître” guidebook is a wealth of knowledge on plant pests and diseases and natural solutions to such problems. It provides readers with the necessary information to help them understand how diseases and pests work: how they spread in crops, the damage they cause and their typical behaviours. The highly detailed texts are illustrated...
A connected, economic, economical and scalable Plug and Play lighting solution for tomato, cucumber, strawberry crops and seedlings…
Easy-to-use control interface.
Control strategies that take into account the surrounding natural light.
Light sensors to calculate light requirements.
Optional LED strips can be added during cultivation.
Comprehensive...
With the Rootwave Pro electrothermal weeder, all it takes is a simple touch of the electrode for the electricity to burn any weed from the inside out, from root to leaf tips. With no energy lost, the current flows through any weed it touches, acting directly on the roots. By harnessing electricity to burn the roots at their very core, Rootwave Pro is the ideal...
We have aimed to create, not one piece of equipment, but a set of simple and complementary devices suitable for existing set-ups and adaptable to future above-ground facilities.
We call it: KIT MODU-LED®.
– Suitable for up to 300,000 strawberry plants per hectare (that’s 3 times more than the current volume),
– Between 3 and 6 times higher yield per...
The first red onion with a high resistance to downy mildew (peronospora destructor). Redlander F1 is a variety of Rijnsburger producing nice round bulbs and suitable for long term storage.
Downy mildew is prevalent in most onion growing areas. It thrives mostly in wet and cold weather, affecting both crop quality and yield. After having developed Hylander F1...
In association with the strawberry growing sector, it has taken Medinbio three years to come up with an innovative agronomic approach intent on doing away with all pesticides in traditional strawberry cultivation. The company has now designed “Approche Système 3.0” for ground and off-ground strawberry production with no synthetic pesticides added.
Most...
For much of the year, light is a limiting factor in greenhouse production. AntiReflect is the first anti-reflective solution applied by spraying existing glasshouses. This coating increases light transmission by reducing reflectiveness, letting in more light for crops to use. Applying AntiReflect ensures a minimum 2.5% increase in light transmission with a...
The CLX MH089 melon variety is grown in every French production area, both with plastic mulching or in fields. In addition to potentially high yields, this variety also comes with a resistance to Aphis gossypii aphids and all powdery mildew strains found in France (including race 3-5). It does well against Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum race 1-2), which is...
DCM VISCOTEC® BLUE is an innovative NPK 9-0-5 fertilising gel with a biostimulant effect.
DCM VISCOTEC® BLUE combines a high nitrogen content (N) (9%) of plant origin with 5% potassium (K2O) for a rapid effect on plant growth and colour. With its low salt index, DCM VISCOTEC® BLUE is gentle on roots and can be used for continuous supplemental fertilising as...
BIOCOR HORTI TWINE was developed specifically for production in market gardening. Soft, flexible and easy to handle, it boasts high breaking strength.
Following harvest, BIOCOR HORTI TWINE can be dug into the soil and breaks down within 180 days at the most. Biological activity in the soil splits the molecules of organic matter (lactic acid), which end up...
