Research and Development in Europe

Verpom is a French company specialized in the trade and packaging of potatoes and onions.

Viaverda is a test center for potatoes, vegetables, ornamental horticulture, and landscaping that offers useful information on a range of crops and does practice-oriented research.

VITO Remote Sensing is a Belgian research institute specialized in image processing and earth observation services. They built and maintain WatchITGrow

Vitrocom Holland BV is a plant tissue culture laboratory for the production of eminent starting material for the international agricultural market.

‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’ is the mission of Wageningen UR. A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large.

The Zasso Group is a Swiss company that applies advanced power electronics for a pure physical (electrical) method of weed control. Its subsidiary Zasso GmbH is involved in a project to apply the technology for haulm killing of potatoes.

Zeracryl is a small research-based Norwegian company has developed a method to reduce the formation of the carcinogenic compound acrylamide during industrial production of french fries