Published 12/06/2011 At least four degrees celsius cooler, at Divemex in Mexico. An early adopter of high-tech growing methods, Divemex is one of the leading producers of greenhouse vegetables in Mexico, supplying products to North America and the local market. In a location with hot summers, very high sun radiation, and som...
Published 11/06/2011 Precious light at 4Evergreen in St. Annaland. Since early 2010, Jim Grootscholte runs the new farm of the renowned 4Evergreen pepper farm in St. Annaland. The first yellow peppers have just been harvested at this new location. Together with the other locations of the family business, pepper...
Published 07/06/2011 You can see the stars through the screen, at T&E van Ruiven in the Netherlands. Brothers Eugène and Tino van Ruijven run the pepper farm that bears their name at Kwintsheul. With three locations they produce about 2.8 million orange peppers each year. The history of the business is relatively recent: in 1997 they started t...