Fobek b.v. was founded in 1951 by a large group of Northern growers, traders and breeders. In 1953, the Fobek started breeding new better potato varieties for the affiliated traders and growers.
Fobek is now a joint venture of its customers / clients that carries out potato breeding programs on assignment.
It is a potato breeding company that develops new varieties for customers.They have range of potato varieties which are disease and pest tolerant.
Fobek is currently running breeding programs for; Agroplant Holland, Bejo, Tuberosum Technologies (Canada), Myco (Denmark) and van Rijn (France).