Leamington, Ontario, Canada
October 9, 2013
On 25th September Nunhems organized a Cucumber High Wire Seminar in Canada to share the current and future opportunities, as well as, the challenges in high wire cultivation with the Canadian Cucumber growers.
Canadian Cucumber Growers listen attentively to Cees Ammerlaan’s High Wire presentation.
Cees Ammerlaan, Cucumber Specialist of North Europe, presented the current status of high wire cultivation. He included information about growing areas, advantages and challenges, feasibility examples and variety characteristics. He also shared Dutch experiences in High Wire Cultivation.
Nunhems unique, most efficient, compact plant type for high wire cultivation
Nunhems has achieved global leadership in the Cucumber High Wire segment by developing a unique, most efficient, compact plant type for high wire cultivation. This variety has shorter internodes and small, horizontal leaves. Examples of this healthy compact plant type are Hi Jack and Nun 29997 CUL*; both of these varieties enable high wire growers to optimize yield, quality and labor.
Nunhems strives for reliable and long-term knowledge exchanges with its customers through seminars, field visits and close collaboration with researchers and other companies in the chain.
About Nunhems
The vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience operates under the brand Nunhems. Nunhems is the global specialist in vegetable genetics and services. As a globally integrated group of teams Nunhems builds unique customer relationships and shares products, concepts and expertise with the professional horticultural production industry and supply chain. The portfolio of Nunhems consists of varieties of 28 vegetable crops, including leading varieties of carrot, cucumber, leek, lettuce, melon, onion, pepper, tomato, and watermelon. With more than 1,800 employees, Nunhems is present in all major vegetable production areas in the world.
*under application for inclusion in the EC Common Catalogue of Vegetable Varieties
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