Nunhems at 35th International Carrot Conference in South Africa

Roger Freeman, carrot breeder at Nunhems USA, contributed to the program with an interesting presentation on disease resistance. At the conference’s field day event, Nunhems presented its Nantes and Imperator assortment together with dealer “Starke Ayres”. The Nunhems team had many interesting discussions with the visitors, and our variety Romance F1 received a lot of attention.

In its 35th edition this year, the conference was organized in collaboration with the biggest South African carrot company “Greenway Farms”, and attracted a total of 182 visitors from different parts of the world, including South Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Israel and the USA.

About Nunhems

The vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience operates under the name of Nunhems. Nunhems is the global specialist in vegetable genetics and services. As a globally integrated group of teams, Nunhems builds unique customer relationships and shares products, concepts and expertise with the professional horticultural production industry and supply chain. The portfolio of Nunhems consists of 2,500 varieties in 28 vegetable crops, including leading varieties of carrot, cucumber, leek, lettuce, melon, onion, pepper, tomato and watermelon. With more than 1,600 employees, Nunhems is present in all major vegetable production areas in the world.

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