Author: Timothy Wahome (Timothy Wahome)

Portuguese Chamomile: Kombucha drinking flowers
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Portuguese Chamomile: Kombucha drinking flowers

In summary: Aquela Kombucha flower drink will be an ideal blend of Portugal’s chamomile and elderflower samples. Already launched (in pre-sale format), the first limited edition of 2023 of Aquela Kombucha, which goes into circulation on April 15, Saturday, when the brand opens a bar at Rua Duque de Saldanha 345, in Porto, will be...

Korea: Tripling profits with innovative nursery technology…”I’m going to be a strawberry master”
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Korea: Tripling profits with innovative nursery technology…”I’m going to be a strawberry master”

Jincheon, a town in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, is surrounded by fields and greenhouses. Born and raised here, Lee Ho-myung, 39, CEO of Bujubu Farm, is a rising star in the business world. After becoming the youngest agricultural meister in the country last year, he has won awards at various prestigious agricultural competitions. He generates annual...

Turkey: Yields in modern greenhouses established by the metropolis delights producers
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Turkey: Yields in modern greenhouses established by the metropolis delights producers

Within the scope of the “Greenhouse Development Project” initiated by Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality to enable Turkish farmers from here to produce products with high market value and increase their income by producing in modern greenhouses, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality provided 50 percent grant support for the installation of modern greenhouses and greenhouse nylon to farmers. The...

Vietnam: Make community agricultural extension a key force in the agricultural sector at the grassroots level
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Vietnam: Make community agricultural extension a key force in the agricultural sector at the grassroots level

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed that localities focus on consolidating and developing community agricultural extension models and the models to become the main force of the Vietnamese agricultural sector at the grassroots level. On April 14, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development sent a document to the People’s Committees of the...

The cultivation of Almond trees in the Balearic Islands of Spain receives a boost with the planting of new varieties
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The cultivation of Almond trees in the Balearic Islands of Spain receives a boost with the planting of new varieties

In summary: The cultivation of Spanish almond trees in the Balearic Islands receives a boost with the planting of new varieties. The Balearic Islands Institute for Agri-Food and Fisheries Research and Training has planted a total of 187 almond trees of ten different varieties, in order to evaluate their adaptation to the agro-climatic conditions of Mallorca....

For the first time: Israeli companies in the field of food-tech will start operating in the Moroccan Sahara
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For the first time: Israeli companies in the field of food-tech will start operating in the Moroccan Sahara

Hellman-Aldoubi Technologies, four Israeli start-ups in the field of food-tech and one of the leading universities in Morocco signed an agreement to promote a project that aims to provide the protein consumption of 10 million Moroccans per day. Roni Hellman, founder and CEO of Hellman-Aldoubi Technologies: “We are proud to lead a consortium that will implement...

Indonesia Essential Oils: New Essential Oil from the Nampu Plant
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Indonesia Essential Oils: New Essential Oil from the Nampu Plant

The nampu plant (Homalomena aromatica) is a potential new raw material for essential oils. The Homalomena genus consists of 500 species. Distilled nampu comes from round-leaved and red-stemmed plants. Nampu that grows in the forest also has elongated and rounded leaves, with green stems. After being distilled, the oil characteristics of the two plants are...

Dutch seed firms see slight expansion of onion acreage
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Dutch seed firms see slight expansion of onion acreage

Seed suppliers for the cultivation of seed onions in the Netherlands expect a 3 to 7 percent expansion of the acreage for the coming growing season. The trend that the onion acreage shrinks in the southwestern part of the Netherlands and expands on the eastern sandy soils continues next growing season. “Based on our own...