Royal ZAP/Semagri

October 27, 2020 | News

Royal ZAP/Semagri announces Digital Potato Variety Exhibition

As November is just around the corner, the potato industry is getting ready for the Potato Variety Presentation Days in the Netherlands. In light of the ongoing pandemic, the plans for this annual happening currently differ per company.

September 19, 2018 | Articles

Figures determine the choice of starch varieties

At the end of June, Royal ZAP/Semagri organised two open practical days for the sixth time to inform starch growers about the possibilities of new varieties. ‘Growers of starch potatoes are looking for varieties with the right resistances and high-starch yield that are best for their own farms. Figures determine the choice’, explains specialist Jarke…

September 12, 2017 | Articles

To ensure the continued survival of our cooperative, it’s important to have our own varieties’

On 13 February, the members of the Royal-ZAP cooperative in Ewijcksluis adopted the takeover of seed potato merchant Semagri in Lelystad. Semagri’s director/owner Lammert Buwalda (67) is very happy that he can transfer the company, which he set up in 2002, to the cooperative with the full confidence of its members. ‘I’ve always had a…