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for showing lettuce varieties for hydroponics to
customers. In addition, the official go-ahead for
the construction of a breeding complex for the
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Kelvin RZ
Celery
new ‘small fruit’ product group – Berries - is given
in 2023.
Slow-shooting.
Strong variety
in Spain.
Rijk Zwaan is also continuing to expand in De Lier.
In May 2018, the new Seed Quality Centre (SQC)
is opened at Zijtwende, bringing together the
departments dedicated to developing and
conducting seed quality tests. To guarantee top
quality, all the seeds produced worldwide by
Hydroponic greenhouses with LED light in Dinteloord (North Brabant).
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Svyatogor RZ
Asian cucumber
Rijk Zwaan are sent back to De Lier to be checked,
handled, packaged and then distributed.
First cucumber
for high-wire
winter cultivation
under lights
in Russia.
The breeding of greenhouse crops is greatly
strengthened with the construction of De Hybride
(‘the Hybrid’), an entirely new breeding location
for tomato, pepper, sweet pepper and aubergine
crops in De Lier. This expansion means that there
is much more space for breeding these crops,
and it also means a lot of extra space for breeding
cucumber and melon, which, with the departure of
the Aubrika and Tomato breeding departments,
Seed Quality Centre (SQC) in De Lier.
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Alamina RZ
Tomato
will have the greenhouse complex all to themselves.
The first pile is driven for this massive project on
25 June 2019, and De Hybride opens for business
Coarse
intermediate type.
Short spring crop.
Good shelf life.
Durable, sturdy.
Deep red colour
in autumn 2020.
The extra space comes in very handy, because
around this time, the world’s tomato crop is
ravaged by a new virus, the Tomato Brown Rugose
Fruit virus (ToBRFV). The tomato breeders at
Rijk Zwaan are making a huge effort to be the first
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to develop varieties with high resistance to this
new virus, and the extra space in De Hybride is a
De Hybride breeding location in De Lier.
huge bonus for them.
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