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November 21, 2018 | Articles

HIP is putting its money on higher potato yield

‘Holland Innovative Potato (HIP) is an association of 11 Dutch potato companies of which 50 percent of the companies are active at the beginning of the chain and 50 percent at the end. Together, these companies have decided to carry out pre-competitive research to foster innovations in the potato chain’, HIP-coordinator and former Director of…

February 27, 2018 | Articles

Breeding costs time, the world is in a hurry

I was recently at an EU conference in Brussels, organised by the European Commission; the topic was modern biotechnology and, in particular, whether or not to apply it in agriculture and horticulture.