Vegetables People Love

We create innovative seed varieties and smart solutions for tomorrow’s needs.

With over 100 years of breeding experience and a presence in more than 100 countries, BASF | Nunhems offers 1,200 commercial vegetable seed varieties across 20 crops.

Our seeds help growers meet the challenges of climate change, labor shortages, disease pressure and changing consumer demands. Every day, over 500 million consumers worldwide enjoy vegetables grown from our seeds. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, global expertise, and strong partnerships across the value chain, we’re committed to creating vegetables people love.

We are part of BASF Agricultural Solutions, where we bring together high-quality seeds, crop protection, digital tools and sustainability expertise. By combining all these strengths, we support farmers and growers in achieving healthier crops, better yields and long-term success.

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March 17, 2025

BASF | Nunhems Announces Partnership Expansion with TS&L Seed Company

March 17, 2025

BASF | Nunhems Collaboration with Plant Products

The collaboration will introduce Plant Products as the distribution partner of Nunhems® greenhouse tomato and cucumber seeds. BASF | Nunhems will continue to provide greenhouse lettuce seeds directly to growers.

March 17, 2025

BASF’s vegetable seeds business and IUNU partner to advance digital phenotyping for the elevation and breeding of hydroponic lettuce varieties

Nunhem, the Netherlands, december 1, 2022 - BASF's vegetable seeds business, operating in the market under the Nunhems® brand, announced today that it has chosen IUNU as its provider of computer vision and AI software for its lettuce breeding program. This partnership marks the continued movement toward data-driven and autonomous growing for BASF.

March 17, 2025

Our first ToBRFV intermediate resistant tomato variety will be introduced in Mexico

For the new season in Mexico, we are introducing our first tomato variety with intermediate resistance against Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV). The new hybrid is a cherry plum tomato variety and combines intermediate resistance with strong agronomic and market performance.

March 17, 2025

Marcel Huibers about 20 years high wire cucumbers

In the video, he talks about the initial phase, how he experienced this period and how he looks at the future. “The greatest challenge of high wire cultivation in cucumbers is still labor", says Huibers.

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