Edible flower and stem: Cultifort strategy
Have you ever wondered how to keep flowers fresh for longer or what role natural solutions play in their growth and preservation? In a context where sustainability is becoming increasingly important, understanding the most [...]
Keys to Combat Powdery Mildew and Downy Mildew: Vine Protection
BACKGROUND During spring, the vine, whose buds are still in the early stages of development, is at the optimal time to be treated against fungal pathogens, using either a direct or fungistatic fungicide. It [...]
Bonsai: Strategies for Its Care and Recovery
1. The Importance of Transplanting and Pruning Transplanting and pruning are essential for bonsai cultivation, but they also generate stress in the plant. This stress increases its metabolism to compensate for the lost [...]
Solution to Climate Change in Hop Cultivation
1. Background Hops, one of the essential components in beer production, are facing significant challenges due to climate change. Rising temperatures, variability in water availability, and the occurrence of extreme weather events have affected [...]
Management of adverse weather conditions in cucumber
Cucumber is currently one of the most popular vegetables in many countries and of significant economic importance in Spain, being the third most important crop in Almería, with an approximate area of 5,600 hectares in [...]
CULTIMAR PLUS: The Solution for Green Bean Cultivation
The green bean is a legume with ample potential for human consumption due to its dual use, both the grain and the pod, and its high protein content. Additionally, part of its production is marketed [...]
Discover the secret to multiply the fat yield of your olives
BACKGROUND The concept of olive oil yield is understood as its total oil content level expressed in percentage by weight. It is well known that in any industrial process, the optimization yield of a process [...]
Broccoli Cultivation and Its Challenges in Murcia: Interview with Jorge Arranz
Cultifort travels to Lorca, Murcia, to interview Jorge Arranz, Technical Director of Sacoje. They have 36 years of experience cultivating crops such as broccoli, cabbages, lettuce, melon, watermelon, bimi, etc. What do you think [...]
Melons and Watermelons: 8 Strategies for New Delhi’s Defense
1. BACKGROUND The description of ToLCNDV was carried out in the 1990s in Indian territory, affecting tomato crops, where it became one of the main phytopathogens (Paddidan et al., 1995). In recent years, the number [...]
Cultivated Dragon Fruit: A global treasure with local adaptation
1. BACKGROUND, CURRENT SITUATION IN SPAIN The pitaya or dragon fruit originates from Central America (Mexico), although it was also standardized in South American countries such as Brazil and Ecuador, and to a lesser extent [...]
Monilinia, the worst enemy of fruit trees
What is Monilinia? Moniliosis is a cryptogamic disease of fruit trees, especially of the genus Prunus, caused by two species known as Monilinia fructigena, which generally affects pome fruits, and Monilinia laxa, which attacks stone [...]
The crucial role of cobalt in legume and soy nutrition
1.INTRODUCTION. Legumes play a soil fertility-enhancing role alongside the association of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (Ramírez-Bahena et al., 2016), making them an important tool in crop rotation programs correlated with the sustainability goals outlined in the [...]