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Pork is tougher and less tasty than before
Many factors influence meat quality. One is the amount of intramuscular fat (marbling in the meat) which has a major influence on taste.
Ghent PhD by Thai researcher on harmful viroids on tomato and other crops may help Thailand in its future vegetable exports.
Two problematic viroids in the Thai tomato, eggplant, bell pepper, chili pepper and bolo maka crops are now easier and more effectively detected..
Japanese holly collection in the Bokrijk Arboretum is key to a co-creative breeding project
The Bokrijk Arboretum houses an exceptional collection of varieties of Japanese holly, a species often used as a substitute for boxwood. IILVO, KU Leuven and Plant Select intend to use this collection...
Winner of organic agriculture and agroecology thesis award: student develops robot for labor-intensive tasks on small-scale farms together with farmers
UGent student Rembrandt Perneel won, with the development of a (semi) autonomous, modular robotic platform that can be used for weed control on small-scale farms and thus play a supporting role in per...
Green Deal Protein Shift aims for sustainable dietary patterns
Vlaams minister van Omgeving Zuhal Demir lanceert op 26 april 2021 samen met in totaal 64 partners de ‘Green Deal Eiwitshift op ons bord’.
In dialogue with Flemish livestock farmers about agroecology: "It offers opportunities, but is not a panacea. And the well-known black-and-white classification of farmers does not reflect reality."
Agroecology as an agricultural system ultimately functions in a free market, in which supply and demand, and therefore competition, plays a role. On the ecological level the model is well established....
Agenda
Horti-BlueC webinar 1: Large scale gasification for energy and biochar production
From waste to resource: Interreg 2 Seas Horti-BlueC is organising 4 webinars on the valorisation of 5 local byproducts into building blocks ...
Horti-BlueC webinar 2: Production of chitin from shrimp shells
From waste to resource: Interreg 2 Seas Horti-BlueC is organising 4 webinars on the valorisation of 5 local byproducts into building blocks ...
Horti-BlueC webinar 3: Spent growing media for direct reuse or as a feedstock for biochar and compost
From waste to resource: Interreg 2 Seas Horti-BlueC is organising 4 webinars on the valorisation of 5 local byproducts into building blocks ...
Growing Media 2021 Symposium
We warmly invite you to GrowingMedia2021, the 2nd International Symposium on Growing Media, Soilless Cultivation, and Compost Utilization in...
Horti-BlueC open event (Interreg 2 Seas)
Can strawberries and tomatoes be cultivated without non-renewable feedstock materials such as peat and mineral wool? How can residual mater...