News & Calendar Greenhouse Horticulture
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AGROS programme launched: businesses work with WUR to optimise agroecology with technology
- Society has become more critical of the greenhouse horticulture, arable farming and dairy industries and demands change, but the current farming... -
Researchers grow vegetables without water pollution
- WUR researchers have successfully grown cucumbers and bell peppers without discharging any wastewater for one year. That was the result of a four-year... -
WUR LightLab first to be accredited for light measurements
- The Wageningen University & Research LightLab has unique measuring equipment to measure characteristics such as translucency, diffusion and... -
Greenhouse Horticulture in the Circular Economy
- Greenhouse Horticulture is a major player in the efficient and safe production of food and flowers. The system is highly water efficient, but the... -
Research into the combination of geothermal heat, lettuce cultivation and fish farming started
- Under great interest the project Geofood has been started. The aim of Geofood is to investigate whether geothermal heating can not only be used to... -
High marks for Summer School
- 33 students, researchers and entrepreneurs from 23 countries, spread over 4 continents. Those were the participants in the 2019 Summer School... -
Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge livestream of 24-hour hackathon
- Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Tencent will organise the 2nd edition of its International Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge in which... -
AgROBOfood has been assigned a 16 million euro innovation action project
- The new EU robotics project agROBOfood accelerates the digital transformation to make the European agri food sector more efficient and competitive.... -
Tomato grower has a new buddy
- Tomato growers would prefer to see the tomatoes grow all day with their own eyes. However, that is quite time-consuming. The Plantalyzer - developed... -
A higher production due to diffuse glass?
- Plants need light to grow. In greenhouse horticulture there is a golden rule: 1 percent more light ensures 1 percent more yield. But what happens if...