• Breeding Beauty: How United Selections Protects Innovation with 100% IPM

  February 9, 2026

  material,” Fred explains. “If pests get in, you lose the variety before it even has a chance.” Why IPM Was Non-Negotiable When Fred joined United Selections about [...] capacity training is always ongoing both internal and external – where Koppert has been instrumental. This shared ownership ensures the program is sustained [...] month . Protecting Innovation, The Koppert Way Over time, United selections has expanded the area under Koppert’s biocontrol program to include the most sensitive

• Excellent Results with Trianum in Onions

  October 11, 2018

  Onion growing has the potential to be a highly profitable venture. Unfortunately, many farmers are yet to realize this. According to a local expert, a [...] application of Trianum. With such clear benefits of the product, the farm has made Trianum standard treatment during consecutive seasons of onion cultivation [...] as they tend to be susceptible to soil borne pathogens. Certainly, Trianum has proven its worth and thanks to its unique working mechanism, soil borne diseases

• Protect your plants from Thrips with Horiver-TR®

  October 11, 2018

  difficult to control. Their high propensity to develop insecticide resistance has been attributed to their biological attributes. These include their small [...] and colours using receptors. In particular, Frankliniella occidentalis , has great sensitivity to UV, green-yellow and blue colours. Blue sticky traps [...] mass trapping of thrips with Horiver-TR have reported that thrips control has become much easier. They have been able to reduce their thrips sprays by up

• Tackling Tuta absoluta: Koppert proposes IPM

  October 11, 2018

  employed. It is against this backdrop that Koppert Biological Systems Kenya has partnered with Kenyatta University and Koppert BV Netherlands in a Food & [...] industry that rakes in approximately KES 14 billion annually. The project has been funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [...] that have fought this scourge, for instance South America, pesticide use has already proven to be an unsustainable management option. Resistance of the

• Fusarium spp.

  which can only infect wounded or stressed host plants. Fusarium oxysporum has many different ‘formae speciales’ which are each selectively pathogenic on

• Towards a chemical-free future in agriculture: The vision of grower Koen

  methods will gradually disappear. I believe that the agricultural sector has a natural interest in such solutions, but ignorance and a lack of alternative

• Macro-Mite

  for your situation. Environmental conditions For optimal results the medium has to be moist, rich in organic matter and have a loose structure. The minimum

• American serpentine leaf miner

  appearance of American serpentine leaf miner The life cycle of a leaf miner has the following stages: egg, three larval instars, a pupal instar and the adult

• Green peach aphid

  Retarded growth and defoliation reduce yield, Plant sap is rich in sugars, but has a low protein content. Aphids therefore need to extract large quantities of

• Western flower thrips

  recognized by their developing wing buds. Compared to the prepupa, the pupa has longer, more developed wing buds and longer antennae that are curved back