How a little predatory mite laid the foundation for biocontrol today
June 11, 2024
persistent when it came to the experiments in his cucumber crop and soon neighbour growers and others became curious about what he was doing in his greenhouse [...] We do it together. To innovate, to bring something new to the market, that’s in our genes. The commitment to finding solutions for growers – it was our [...] It started as a germ of an idea, or rather a little predatory mite in this case. Koppert’s pioneer, Jan Koppert noticed that chemical sprays were ineffective