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Hazera is a world leader in the vegetable seeds industry.
Being part of the French group Limagrain, allows us to offer a wide portfolio and gives us the ability to provide products beyond Hazera, from additional brands in the group.

One of the outcomes of these collaborations are the range of leafy vegetables available from our sister company Vilmorin-Mikado: “The leafy choice”. This gives South African growers a wide and suitable portfolio of high-quality products such as Iceberg, Cos, Batavia, Frilly, Oakleaf, Butter and Curly lettuce varieties.

Our diverse portfolio offers growers year-round coverage with different types and varieties, greater protection from diseases and increased adaptability for different areas.

Hazera is proud to announce the launch of our ToBRFV intermediate resistant varieties- the optimal balance between protection and performance– providing the grower an effective tool to face the highly infectious virus, infecting tomato plants, fruit and affecting growers worldwide. The Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus poses a constant threat to growers worldwide, significantly reducing yields, affecting the quality of fruit, and systematically infecting other plants, as it is a very transmittable virus that can infect through soil, tools, water, and people’s contact.

Since ToBRFV hit, Hazera’s R&D team has been working tirelessly to find varieties capable of giving an effective level of ToBRFV resistance without compromising the yield and fruit quality we’ve invested years to perfect. Over the course of several years, Hazera researchers and agronomists invested endless resources to find solutions to address our growers’ needs worldwide. Moreover, according to Alejandro Szechtman, Hazera’s Portfolio Marketing Director, “These efforts included in-depth trials in many locations, under different conditions in a global scale, to confirm that we are able to provide the optimal solutions, with the right balance between performance and ToBRFV protection”.