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CORA® SEEDS
s.r.l. is a family owned Italian Company, whose Management Team members have over 60 years
of combined (inter)national experience in horticulture in the field of seeds for professional vegetable production. The
company is committed to the research, breeding, production and marketing of a wide variety of seeds such as onion,
baby leaves, indeterminate tomatoes for tunnels and open field, determinate tomatoes for fresh market and proces-
sing, melons, watermelons, peppers, fennel and celery.
The headquarters of
CORA® SEEDS
is in Cesena, historically and still today, one of the major production areas of
vegetable seeds in the world. In and around Cesena is where our offices, warehouses, greenhouses and trial station
centre are located. They are used to carry out research, breeding and quality assessment and where we have the
demonstration plots of our newly developed varieties. A dedicated team of breeders, who select lines and create new
hybrids for the local and international markets, is responsible for the continuous development of our genetics. Colla-
boration of the breeding team with a biotechnologist ensures the use of the latest biotechnology findings to improve
the genetics of our new varieties.
In order to guarantee that our seeds are free from pathogens,
CORA® SEEDS
contracts independent laboratories
to test not only the pathogen resistance of our products, but also the seeds produced and imported from all over the
world. In our laboratories, we constantly monitor the quality of our seeds by performing germination tests. Moreover,
in our experimental station, all the variety batches that have been produced are tested before marketing.
In our warehouses, we constantly monitor and record the humidity levels and, if required, processes of dehumidifica-
tion are carried out. The product is stored in special cooling rooms where temperature levels and humidity levels are
kept under control to ensure the highest quality of our products.
CORA® SEEDS
has the necessary equipment to ensure the exact weighing, seed counting and packaging of the
products distributed to the national and international markets. Our Marketing & Sales network in Italy ensures the
total coverage of the national key production areas whilst collaboration with international partners and distributors
enables us to reach countries, too many to mention, all over the world. Our range of onions, watermelons, baby
leaves, processing tomatoes, tomatoes for the fresh market, peppers, fennel, celery and melons is intended for the
professional producers of the horticultural vegetable products destined for the local markets, large-scale retail trade,
supermarkets and export.
Apart from our own research, breeding and sales
CORA® SEEDS
is the distributor of Pop Vriend Seeds B.V. in Italy.
Pop Vriend Seeds is a company from the Netherlands specialised in sweet corn, French beans for the industry and
for the fresh market, spinach for the industry and the fresh market and for the production of Baby leaf spinach. On
behalf of the same company,
CORA® SEEDS
carries out the experimental trials, organises demo fields and pre-
commercial introduction trials of the products to assess suitability to the Italian market.
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