• Avocado

  pear or (large) egg. The avocado tree belongs to the flowering plant family of Lauraceae . Commercially speaking, avocados are very valuable and the fruit

• Banana

  purple or brown when ripe. Bananas grow in bunches downwards from the top of the plant. Nowadays, almost all edible, seedless (parthenocarpic) bananas

• Carrot

  Daucus carota subsp. sativus ) is a root vegetable and comes in a variety of colours, ranging from the regular orange to black and purple, but also red

• Faba bean

  Vicia faba grows some 0.5–1.8 m tall and is a firm plant with sturdy stems of a square cross-section. The broad beans are broad, leather like pods. They

• Contact

  Contact details Koppert Biological Systems (K) Ltd. Apex Business Park, Unit 6, Mombasa Road. P.O. Box 41852 00100 Nairobi, Kenya +254 731 202191 info@koppert.co.ke

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  remains the backbone of many livelihoods, with millions of smallholder farmers working to feed communities, secure the future of food systems, and ultimately [...] bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, while accelerating the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. Why This Project Matters Given that Kenyan [...] agriculture is largely driven by smallholder farmers, who account for over 70% of the sector and predominantly practice open-field farming, this initiative

• Equinox Farm Takes Soil Health Management To the Next Level With NatuGro Program

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• Biological crop protection: pest and disease control with minimal to no resistance risks

  June 17, 2025

  Biocontrol is a natural form of pest and disease control, and the highly unlikely possibility of resistance is one of the key benefits of incorporating biocontrol [...] occur when a grower repeatedly uses a product with the same mode of action. A mode of action is how a crop protection solution controls a pest or disease [...] example, if a pesticide blocks only one characteristic of the pest, there is an increased likelihood of resistance development. Pest and disease resistance:

• How Trianum Helps Rose Growers Defeat Crown Gall and Maximize Crop Performance

  May 7, 2025

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• Boost Soil Health Naturally: Inside the Koppert Soil Health Program

  June 16, 2025

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