Learn Crop Production

Explore our collection of articles and insights designed to help you grow smarter, healthier crops and make informed decisions. Whether you’re a seasoned farmer or just starting out, there’s something here for everyone who wants to learn and improve.

Lucerne

Lucerne needs consistent nutrient support. Foliar feeding delivers nutrients directly to the leaves when plants need them most. Read more...

Peat Moss Mikskaar

Learn more about peat moss Mikskaar to discover why most vegetable seedling nurseries in South Africa use it in their growing mixtures. Read more...

Blind Tomato Seedlings

Explore the causes and prevention of blind plants in tomato seedling development, from seed quality to environmental stress and priming effects. Read more...

Be aMAYzed: May seeds

After 24 months of sweetcorn trials across South Africa, Hygrotech selected the top five May Seeds varieties to bring to the market. Read more...

Magma Collection: Green Beans

The Magma Collection offers a complete range of green bean varieties with different maturity dates, allowing you to split your planting. Read more...

Beetroot Scarlett F1 Spotlight

If you’re searching for a high-performance beetroot variety that thrives from field to shelf, hybrid Scarlett F1 ticks all the boxes. Read more...

Habanero Ember F1

Habanero Ember F1 has quickly gained a reputation as a highly productive variety with exceptional fruit-setting capacity across South Africa. Read more...

Heinz: Leader in Processing Tomatoes

Hygrotech is proud to announce the arrival of two new Heinz game changers to the South African market. Read more...

Saladette Tomato F350

Saladette Tomato F350 has become the leading determinate variety for its vigour, strength, and ability to handle adverse conditions. Read more...

Summertime with Red Heaven Watermelon

Red Heaven watermelon is guaranteed to put you on cloud nine due to its excellent taste, superior flavour, and crisp eating quality. Read more...

Effect of Stress on Corn Pollination

Drought stress slows silk elongation but accelerates pollen shedding to occur before the silk emergence. Read more...

Baby Marrow BB1022 F1

What really sets Baby Marrow BB1022 F1 apart is its yield. It produces a lot more fruit per hectare, increasing revenue for farmers. Read more...

Yellow Cantaloupe: Flavor Time

This variety ticks all the boxes with its taste attributes, shelf life, aroma, and high sugars, giving an exceptional eating experience. Read more...

Spero F1 Tomato

Spero is a true indeterminate cultivar from the 1722 F1 range. This cultivar has an excellent disease package with high yielding potential. Read more...

Pepper Sailfish Shows Excellent Results

Green Pepper Sailfish has performed exceptionally well in a screening trial in the Komatipoort area. Read more...

Brassica Range is Booming!

Hygrotech’s brassica offering to the South African market is expanding into a serious contender for market share. Read more...

Bean Enclave

The Bean Enclave’s first trial results and data showed tremendous potential for multipurpose use i.e. fresh-, processing-, freezing- and export market. Read more...

Pruning Tomato SCX824

The pruning of indeterminate open field tomato plants is a rather unconventional practice. However, the results were excellent. Read more...

Quality Sweetcorn

Hygrotech is very proud to announce that it will be introducing, marketing, and selling the May Seed sweetcorn program in Southern Africa. Read more...

Choosing a Butternut Variety

What are the specifications of the end user? Export, chopping, dicing, or whole? Also consider shape, disease resistance, yield and weight Read more...

Cabbage Defender F1

Hygrotech had a successful farmers day in Lydenburg, where we had cabbage Defender F1 standing out and attracting a lot of attention. Read more...

Hybrid Habanero Cultivars

Hygrotech has screened the first hybrid Habanero cultivars. In these trials all three cultivars stood out in plant sizes and fruit quality. Read more...