Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.
Rijk Zwaan is a world leading, high quality, highly innovative specialist in creating vegetables. Our head office is located in De Lier, the Netherlands. This is where its general management is based and forms the hub from where all international activities are steered. Rijk Zwaan has at its disposal numerous locations worldwide for the breeding of varieties, the production and sales of seed and providing services to its customers. This gives us a highly effective central organisation and enables the company to sell seed and provide crop advice and support in the climate zone where the seed was developed. Rijk Zwaan specialises in vegetable crops. The company has a wide-ranging breeding programme. ‘Wide’ in the sense of crops, growing locations and usage possibilities. The crops Rijk Zwaan uses for breeding work number about 40. They are nearly all crops used in commercial horticulture and include well-known crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, melons and spinach but also cabbage, radish, climbing beans and aubergines. Rijk Zwaan carries out breeding work in these crops at various locations in the world. Each location has its own climatological conditions. This enables Rijk Zwaan to breed varieties which fit in perfectly with crops grown in the same climate zone.
Address
Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.
Burgemeester Crezeelaan 40
2678 ZG De Lier
Phone: +31 (0)174 532 300
Fax: +31 (0)174 515 334
email: rijkzwaan(@)rijkzwaan.nl
Activities:
- Funding
- Research Support
Financed Funding-programmes:
- Rijk Zwaan Funding
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All projects: 1
Project Management Agency for
- Rijk Zwaan Funding
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All projects: 1
Subordinate Institutions:
- Rijk Zwaan Marne AG - Details of Rijk Zwaan Marne AG