Leena Organica
The catalogue  ·  No. 04   —   Spring 2026 Forty lots, four sections — fruit, vegetables, herbs & florals, inputs from the Netherlands Edited 15 March 2026
Catalogue — Spring 2026

Forty lots, edited by hand

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40 lots

The list is organised by what the thing is, not where it ships from. Each lot carries the cultivar, the growing region, the season we will ship it in, the form, and a pairing note from the desk. The four glyphs are a navigation aid: diamond for fruit, square for vegetables, circle for herbs and florals, triangle for the Dutch inputs we send the other way.

If a lot you expect is missing, it is missing on purpose. The reasoning is on the cover page or, in season, on the desk — write and ask.

Section I  ·  Lots 01 – 13

Fruit, fresh and frozen

01Festival strawberry, fresh

The one the pastry chefs ask for

Fragaria × ananassa 'Festival'  ·  El-Bostan farms, Beheira

Festival is the Egyptian winter strawberry — picked at first light, packed in 250 g punnets at the field, on the seven a.m. truck to Cairo cargo, in Schiphol by dawn the following day. The cultivar holds its acid further into ripeness than the more available Fortuna; the aroma carries a faint green-stem, white-pepper note that survives a chill cabinet.

For a pastry kitchen or a delicatessen counter. Eat one at room temperature against a Fortuna of the same Brix; the difference shows on the second mouthful.

Form
Fresh, 250 g punnet, 8 punnets / tray
Pack
1 200 trays / 40ft reefer
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Mid Nov — early May
Window now  ·  air daily from CAI
02Festival strawberry, IQF

The same fruit, individually frozen

Fragaria × ananassa 'Festival'  ·  El-Bostan packhouse, Beheira

What does not go fresh, on the same day, goes into the freezing line at El-Bostan. The fruit is sorted by hand, blast-frozen on stainless belts at minus thirty, and the cell wall stays intact. We use it ourselves at the office for ice cream tests.

For dairy, sorbet, jam at scale, a confectioner's coulis. Macerate while still half-frozen for the cleanest extract.

Form
IQF, 10 kg poly bag, 4 bags / carton
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS Food v9
Season
Available year-round, packed Dec–May
03Fortuna strawberry, IQF

For the sweeter end of the cabinet

Fragaria × ananassa 'Fortuna'  ·  Ismailia smallholders

A larger fruit than Festival, rounder on the palate, less acid, more obvious sweetness. We carry Fortuna only as IQF — the soft-fruit air-freight slot is reserved for Festival, where the acid actually carries the trip. Fortuna becomes the right answer in dairy and in retail-pack smoothie mixes.

For an own-label smoothie line, a frozen-yoghurt counter, a children's compote.

Form
IQF whole, 10 kg poly bag
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Year-round, packed Feb–April
04Manfalouti pomegranate, fresh

The Egyptian fruit that travels at all

Punica granatum 'Manfalouti'  ·  Assiut highlands

The native cultivar — older than the records of any of our growers' families — and the one most worth knowing. Skin a deeper carmine than Wonderful, arils a darker garnet, an acid that lifts the sweetness rather than flattens it. Ships clean as a whole fruit because the rind is thick; the November to mid-January window is the only one we are interested in.

For a cheese course, a duck reduction, a slow-cooked lamb. Open the fruit by hand under water — the kitchen will thank you.

Form
Fresh whole, 4 kg open-top carton
Pack
20 cartons / pallet · 20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
1 Nov — 20 Jan only. No exceptions.
05Wonderful pomegranate, fresh

For the retail buyer who wants a 'pomegranate'

Punica granatum 'Wonderful'  ·  Minya & Assiut

The Californian cultivar grown out in Egyptian sun. Slightly sweeter than Manfalouti, lighter on the acid, with the soft-pink rind a UK or German retailer expects in the box. We carry it for that reason — but we will tell a chef who walked in expecting 'pomegranate' to take the Manfalouti.

For a supermarket fixture, a juice bar, a fruit basket. Reliable, recognisable, ships well.

Form
Fresh whole, 4 kg open-top carton
Pack
20 cartons / pallet · 20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Late Oct — early Feb
06Pomegranate arils, vacuum-pack

The fruit, opened and ready

From both lots above  ·  deseeded at the Beheira packhouse

Hand-deseeded in a chilled room within eighteen hours of the whole fruit arriving from Assiut, then nitrogen-flushed and vacuum-sealed in 200 g and 1 kg pouches. The deseeding is the labour-intensive step; we contract with two SMETA-audited co-operatives in Beheira that pay above the regional average and we name them on the invoice. Shelf life nine days under chill.

For ready-to-eat fixtures, hotel buffets, juice production. The first cold-pressed run from these arils — undiluted, unsweetened — is itself a thing to taste.

Form
Vacuum pouch, 200 g or 1 kg
Pack
EPS chiller box, 24 × 1 kg / box
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS · SMETA 4-pillar
Season
Nov — Feb, air-only
07Medjool date, Jumbo

The Siwa Jumbo, by the kilo or by the box

Phoenix dactylifera 'Medjool'  ·  Siwa oasis, El-Bahaa cooperative

Jumbo grade — twenty-three to twenty-five grams per date, a colour the trade calls 'caramel light', a skin that hasn't sugared on the dorsal seam. From the south side of the Siwa basin, where the irrigation comes from artesian wells. The cooperative's harvest is split between us and a Saudi buyer; we take the spring lots, they take the autumn.

For a cheese plate, a confectioner's centre, a delicatessen counter. Stuff with toasted walnut and labneh; ask for nothing more.

Form
5 kg carton, single-layer paper-lined
Pack
180 cartons / pallet · 20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic · Demeter (selected lots)
Season
Year-round from cold store
08Medjool date, Medium

The smaller fruit, the same orchard

Phoenix dactylifera 'Medjool'  ·  Siwa oasis

Same trees, smaller calibre: fifteen to eighteen grams. The flavour is, if anything, more concentrated than Jumbo — the sugar-to-flesh ratio shifts. The fruit costs about a third less and is the right answer for an industrial buyer making date paste, energy bars, or a chopped retail mix.

For paste, baking, chopped retail. Pit and process whole rather than pre-pitting if you can — the seed keeps the fruit honest in transit.

Form
5 kg carton or 10 kg bulk
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Year-round
09Medjool date, pitted retail

200 g, kraft-paper carton, retail-ready

Phoenix dactylifera 'Medjool'  ·  Siwa, pitted at the Cairo packhouse

Pitted by hand at the Heliopolis facility, packed in a recyclable kraft carton with a single waxed-paper liner. We do not glycerin-spray the surface to keep the fruit looking 'fresh' — Medjool sugars naturally; that is the fruit. The brief on the box says so.

A retail line. Listed at four large Dutch and German chains; private-label available.

Form
200 g kraft carton, 24 / display box
Pack
1 800 cartons / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS
Season
Year-round
10Keitt mango, fresh

The late-summer fruit from Ismailia

Mangifera indica 'Keitt'  ·  Ismailia & Sharqia orchards

Late-season, large-calibre, the skin staying green long after the fruit is ripe — which makes it a difficult sell to a buyer who reads ripeness off the colour. We send a one-page brief with every pallet explaining the cultivar, and we will speak to a buyer's category manager directly if they want it. The fibre is low, the cheek is generous, and the fruit holds through a long reefer trip.

For a hotel breakfast counter, a juice production line, a salsa for grilled fish. Slice cheek down to a hedgehog; the flesh does not need sugar.

Form
Fresh, 4.5 kg single-layer carton
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft reefer
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Late June — mid September
11Zebda mango, fresh

The variety the Egyptians keep for themselves

Mangifera indica 'Zebda'  ·  Sharqia, three orchards only

A native Egyptian cultivar — fibrous, smaller than Keitt, with a flavour that is more honey than sun. The growers in Sharqia keep most of it for the Cairo market and a Dubai trade that pays in dollars; we get the rest. We ship Zebda by air to specialty importers in Amsterdam, Berlin and London. Six pallets at a time, not a container.

For a chef who knows what to do with it. Peel and eat over a sink; cube into a yoghurt; do not cook.

Form
Fresh, 3 kg single-layer carton
Pack
120 cartons per air shipment
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Mid July — late August
Allocated  ·  ask the desk
12Mango, IQF cheek

Frozen at the orchard line

Mangifera indica 'Keitt'  ·  Ismailia packhouse

What does not move fresh goes to the IQF line at the Ismailia packhouse. The cheek is removed whole, blast-frozen, and bagged in two-kilo and ten-kilo formats. The water content is lower than commercial Indian Alphonso IQF and the flavour is rounder; we run a head-to-head once a year with two buyers and the difference is consistent.

For a smoothie line, a sorbet base, a frozen-yoghurt mix. Defrost partial; the cheek slices well from chilled.

Form
IQF cheek, 2 kg or 10 kg poly bag
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS
Season
Year-round, packed Jul–Sep
13Flame Seedless grape, fresh

The early Minya berry, May into June

Vitis vinifera 'Flame Seedless'  ·  El-Wadi co-operative, Minya

The first European-format table grape of the season — three to four weeks ahead of the South African import and six weeks ahead of the first Italian Sublima. The berry is small, red-amethyst, crunchy at the skin, with the kind of clean acid that disappears by June. We ship the first two weeks of the harvest air-freight; the back half reefer.

For a fruit-bowl counter, a hotel breakfast, the first stone-fruit window of the European season.

Form
Fresh, 5 kg open-top carton, 500 g punnet on request
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Early May — end June
Section II  ·  Lots 14 – 26

Vegetables, fresh and frozen

14Green Globe artichoke heart, IQF

A short, contracted season — March into April

Cynara cardunculus 'Green Globe'  ·  Nubaria reclamation plots

Italian seed, grown in Egyptian sand for the third generation. The heart is firm at the base and sweet, with the green flush a freezing line ought to keep. Trimmed and quartered by hand at the packhouse, blast-frozen, packed. The whole run is six weeks long. We do not extend it on demand.

For a winter risotto, a vegetable terrine, a soft tart with brown butter. Defrost slowly in milk; do not boil.

Form
IQF quartered, 10 kg poly bag
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS
Season
Packed Mar–Apr · year-round from stock
15Baby okra, IQF

Picked at three centimetres, not five

Abelmoschus esculentus 'Clemson Spineless' (selected)  ·  Beheira smallholders

The size is the variable that matters. Above five centimetres the pod is fibrous, the flavour grassy, and the mucilage thick enough to thicken a stew unhelpfully. We pay our growers a premium to pick at three. The trade-off is a smaller yield per acre, which the price reflects.

For a North African or Levantine kitchen, a Greek bamia, an Indian bhindi. Fry hot and fast first; finish slow.

Form
IQF whole, 10 kg poly bag
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Packed Jun–Sep · year-round from stock
16Molokhia, IQF chopped

The Egyptian summer leaf

Corchorus olitorius  ·  Sharqia & Nile delta smallholders

The dish of every Egyptian summer — leaves of the jute mallow, chopped fine, cooked in a broth with garlic and coriander. We pack the leaf, finely chopped, frozen in 400 g and 5 kg formats for the diaspora trade and the growing number of European chefs who have come across it. The colour holds a deeper green than the Lebanese powdered form; the slight viscosity is correct.

For a North African kitchen, a Levantine restaurant, a chef interested in greens that thicken without flour. Cook in lamb or rabbit broth; finish with crushed garlic in ghee.

Form
IQF chopped, 400 g retail or 5 kg foodservice
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Packed Apr–Sep · year-round from stock
17White onion, IQF diced

A foundation ingredient, done well

Allium cepa 'Giza White'  ·  Beheira

Not the romance lot in the catalogue. But a properly cured Beheira white, diced clean at the packhouse and blast-frozen, will out-flavour the comparable Polish or Spanish foodservice IQF. The growers know we will reject a lot for thick neck; the lot is therefore correct.

For an industrial kitchen, a foodservice base, a soup or stock production line.

Form
IQF 10 mm dice, 10 kg poly bag
Pack
22 t / 40ft frozen reefer
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS
Season
Year-round
18Garlic, peeled whole cloves

Hand-peeled, in brine, in a chiller box

Allium sativum 'Egyptian White'  ·  Fayoum

Peeled by hand at a Fayoum co-operative that pays piece-rate above the regional average, audited under SMETA, the workforce predominantly women between the ages of forty and sixty. The clove is firm, the skin off entirely, packed in a light salt brine and chilled. Shelf life thirty days under refrigeration.

For a foodservice kitchen, a confit production, a delicatessen pasta sauce. Drain and pat dry before use.

Form
Brined, 1 kg or 5 kg tub
Pack
EPS chill box, air freight
Cert
EU Organic · SMETA 4-pillar
Season
Year-round
19Sweet potato, Beauregard, fresh

The American cultivar, the Nubaria sand

Ipomoea batatas 'Beauregard'  ·  Nubaria, Salem Farms

Beauregard does well in sandy, low-irrigation soils, which the Nubaria reclamation plots provide in abundance. The flesh runs deep orange, the skin reds out properly through the curing, and the sugars develop after two weeks of storage at twelve degrees. We move the bulk to the UK trade and a steady volume to two German wholesalers who specify Nubaria over the more available South American origins.

For a roast, a fries production, a baby-food line. The cure improves the flavour.

Form
Fresh, 6 kg or 15 kg carton, calibre 200–400 g
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Sep — Feb
20Sundried tomato, halves

Sun, not gas

Solanum lycopersicum 'Roma VF'  ·  Fayoum & Beni Suef

Dried in the open Fayoum sun on bamboo trays, not in a gas tunnel. The process takes seven to ten days against forty-eight hours for a tunnel-dried equivalent. The flavour is the difference: a sweetness that is concentrated rather than caramelised, an acid that is preserved rather than cooked off. We pack two grades; the higher one is sized and laid in a single layer.

For a delicatessen counter in olive oil, a pasta production, a foodservice antipasto. Rehydrate in stock, not water.

Form
Dried halves, 5 kg or 10 kg carton
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Year-round, packed Jul–Sep
21Cherry tomato, on the vine, fresh

The greenhouse run from Salhia

Solanum lycopersicum 'Conchita F1'  ·  Salhia greenhouses, Sharqia

Run in a Dutch-engineered glasshouse on the Salhia ring — the same Westland breeders' seed used in Naaldwijk, grown out in better light and warmer days. The fruit comes off the vine red, on the vine, the cluster sized to eight to ten berries. Brix runs 8 to 9, acid clean, skin firm enough to hold a week on a retail shelf.

For a retail tomato fixture, a foodservice salad bar, a chef who wants a snacking tomato that tastes of tomato.

Form
Fresh, on-vine, 250 g punnet
Pack
10 punnets / tray · 240 trays / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Sep — May, air freight
22Green bean, fine, fresh

The 6 mm calibre, picked by hand

Phaseolus vulgaris 'Paulista'  ·  Nubaria reclamation

The fine bean — six millimetres at the calibre gauge, not eight or ten. Hand-picked, hand-trimmed, the stem end snapped not cut. We move the lot to a UK ready-meal trade that specifies the calibre exactly, and to a Dutch wholesaler who supplies hotel restaurants.

For a fine-dining vegetable garnish, a Niçoise composition, a ready-meal accompaniment. Blanch for ninety seconds, refresh, finish in butter.

Form
Fresh, 5 kg carton, calibre 6 mm
Pack
20 pallets / 40ft reefer
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Nov — May, air freight
23Spring onion, bunched, fresh

Long-green bunches, banded at the field

Allium fistulosum 'White Lisbon'  ·  Sharqia smallholders

Pulled at the field, root washed, banded into 100 g bunches with a paper tie, packed into single-layer trays the same morning. The green is long, the white is clean, the root does not need to be trimmed by a retailer.

For a retail green-onion fixture, a foodservice base. The green is the better half — do not throw it.

Form
Fresh, banded, 100 g bunch, 30 bunches / tray
Pack
180 trays / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Year-round, air or sea
24Sweet pepper, mixed colours, fresh

The traffic-light pack, grown under glass

Capsicum annuum (red, yellow, orange)  ·  Salhia greenhouses, Sharqia

Three colours, three weights, single-layer punnet — the format every supermarket category manager asks for and few Egyptian growers can deliver in organic. Salhia can. We move six containers a month through the winter, eight through April.

For a retail fixture, a foodservice prep counter, a salad bar.

Form
Fresh, mixed 500 g punnet, 10 / tray
Pack
240 trays / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Oct — May, reefer
25Beetroot, bunched, fresh

With the leaf still on

Beta vulgaris 'Detroit Dark Red'  ·  Beheira

Pulled with the leaf still on the root, banded into three-root bunches at the field. The leaf is the part the kitchen actually wants and the part most distributors strip off in the cold store. Ours does not.

For a restaurant kitchen, a delicatessen. Roast whole in salt; serve the leaves wilted with the same olive oil.

Form
Fresh, bunched, 3 roots / bunch, leaf on
Pack
120 bunches / pallet
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Oct — Apr
26Snow pea, flat, fresh

Eight centimetres, picked hand-flat

Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon  ·  Nubaria

Eight centimetres at picking, before the seed swells inside the pod. The wall is sweet, the pod stays crisp through a five-day refrigerated journey. Hand-picked twice a week, twice a day. Three smallholders, two pickers each.

For a stir-fry production, a fine-dining vegetable plate. Blanch sixty seconds, finish in sesame oil.

Form
Fresh, 2 kg punnet
Pack
120 punnets / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Dec — May, air freight
Section III  ·  Lots 27 – 33

Herbs & florals

27Spearmint, fresh

Air-only, dawn-cut, twenty-four hours bench-to-bench

Mentha spicata 'Nile-leaf'  ·  Beheira & Sharqia smallholders

The Egyptian native, with more carvone and less menthol than the Moroccan Nana that dominates the trade. Cut at dawn, packed unwashed, in the air by noon, in a Dutch kitchen the next morning. Six days a week, Cairo to Schiphol. Reefer transit kills the volatiles; we do not offer it that way.

For a green tabbouleh, a yoghurt sauce, a pot of mint tea. Do not chop it small.

Form
Fresh, banded, 100 g bunch, 20 / EPS box
Pack
Air freight, daily ex-CAI
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Year-round, peak Mar–Jun
In peak now
28Basil, Genovese, fresh

The Italian seed, grown out under Egyptian glass

Ocimum basilicum 'Genovese'  ·  Salhia, Sharqia greenhouse

Italian seed, run under Dutch-engineered glasshouse light, cut at the right leaf stage — third pair, not the bolting tip — and pre-cooled before the flight. The leaf holds its waxy gloss, the stem cuts clean, and the aroma is the Genovese aroma: clove, anise, a green-flower note.

For a pesto kitchen, a pizzeria, a delicatessen counter. Keep the stems in water at room temperature; never below 10°C.

Form
Fresh, 100 g bunch or 1 kg bulk
Pack
Air freight, EPS chill
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Year-round under glass
29Parsley, flat-leaf, fresh

The everyday herb, properly handled

Petroselinum crispum 'Italian Giant'  ·  Beheira smallholders

The most-shipped herb in the catalogue, and the one easiest to ship badly. We refrigerate from the field, do not wash, do not band before pre-cooling. The stems stay green and crisp; the leaf does not yellow on the second day. Three growers, four hectares each.

For a kitchen that uses parsley in volume. Tabbouleh wants the leaf only; a stock wants the whole bunch including the stem.

Form
Fresh, banded, 100 g bunch, 20 / EPS box
Pack
Air freight, daily
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Year-round
30Coriander, fresh

A herb the dust must not touch

Coriandrum sativum  ·  Beheira

Coriander bruises on the field if it lies in the heat too long, so we collect three times a day in the picking weeks of March and April. The aroma — citrus, soap, raw green — is fragile in a way parsley is not. We are particular about coriander.

For a Levantine kitchen, a Mexican one, a salsa verde, a Vietnamese pho. The stem is the deeper flavour; do not strip it.

Form
Fresh, 100 g bunch, 20 / EPS box
Pack
Air freight
Cert
EU Organic · GlobalG.A.P.
Season
Year-round, peak Mar–May
31Dill, fresh

The Scandinavian gravlax herb, grown in Beheira

Anethum graveolens 'Mammoth'  ·  Beheira

The Nordic trade ships dill from Beheira from November through April, when the home glass-house run is too dim or too expensive. The cultivar is the same; the day-length is better; the feathery leaf comes off the field a deep blue-green.

For a gravlax production, a smoked-fish counter, a yoghurt-cucumber sauce. Add late; never cook.

Form
Fresh, 100 g bunch
Pack
Air freight, EPS chill
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Nov — Apr
32Hibiscus calyx, dried, whole

The Aswan red — for the long brew, not the short one

Hibiscus sabdariffa  ·  Aswan & Qena smallholders

Whole dried calyx, deep ruby-black when dry, that opens into a clear cherry-red infusion. The acid is bright, the colour stable, the aroma faintly resinous. Sun-dried on raised wire frames; never tunnel-dried, never sulphured. This is the karkadeh of every Egyptian wedding and a quietly traded ingredient in European herbal tea.

For a tea-blending floor, a cordial production, a chef interested in a non-grape acid for a reduction. Cold-brew overnight, not hot — the aroma survives.

Form
Dried whole, 20 kg PP sack, paper-lined
Pack
50 sacks / pallet
Cert
EU Organic · BRCGS
Season
Year-round, harvested Oct–Dec
33Chamomile flower, dried

The Fayoum bloom, picked at the open window

Matricaria chamomilla  ·  Fayoum, Beni Suef

Picked at the brief two-day window when the flower is fully open but the petals have not begun to drop. Sun-dried on raised mesh. The bloom is whole, the chamazulene content registers blue under steam-distillation, the aroma is clean apple-honey.

For a tea-blending floor, a cosmetic distillation, an infusion bar. The whole bloom keeps the oil; broken chamomile is a different product.

Form
Dried whole bloom, 10 kg PP sack
Pack
80 sacks / pallet
Cert
EU Organic
Season
Year-round, picked Apr–May
Section IV  ·  Lots 34 – 40

The other way — Dutch inputs to Egypt

34Seed potato, Spunta

The cultivar half of Egypt cooks

Solanum tuberosum 'Spunta'  ·  HZPC growers, Drenthe

The long, pale, dry-fleshed potato that became the Egyptian household standard in the 1980s — and the basis of the cultivated organic crop today. We move Spunta seed (pre-basic and Class A) from three growers in Drenthe to fourteen producing partners in Beheira, Nubaria and Minya. EU plant passport, NVWA-certified.

For a producing farm, a seed merchant, a co-operative. We move two containers a season; allocations close in October.

Form
Tuber, pre-basic / Class A, 25 kg jute
Pack
40 t / 40ft
Cert
EU plant passport · NVWA
Season
Shipped Oct–Dec for the Egyptian winter plant
35Seed potato, Hermes

For the crisping trade

Solanum tuberosum 'Hermes'  ·  Flevoland growers

The crisping cultivar. Higher dry-matter, lower reducing sugars, fries golden. We supply two contract crisp producers near Cairo and a third in the Sadat City industrial zone. EU plant passport.

For a crisp plant, a frozen-fry operation. Not a household potato.

Form
Tuber, Class A, 25 kg jute
Pack
40 t / 40ft
Cert
EU plant passport · NVWA
Season
Oct–Dec
36Seed potato, Lady Rosetta

The other crisping cultivar

Solanum tuberosum 'Lady Rosetta'  ·  Flevoland growers

Rounder, redder-skinned, slightly higher sugar than Hermes — a more forgiving crisp from a household-fryer perspective. The Egyptian producers we supply alternate the two cultivars by season; Lady Rosetta is the one for the early-summer plant.

For a crisp plant or a chip producer who wants both red- and white-skinned options.

Form
Tuber, Class A, 25 kg jute
Pack
40 t / 40ft
Cert
EU plant passport · NVWA
Season
Oct–Dec
37Hybrid tomato seed, Westland

The breeders' seed from the Dutch glass

Solanum lycopersicum F1 hybrid  ·  Westland breeders

Westland is the Dutch glass-house belt and the seat of the world's strongest tomato breeding. We move pelleted, ISTA-certified seed from two breeders to the Salhia greenhouse complex, where the same seed and a brighter light produce the cherry tomato in Section II of this catalogue. Quiet, technical, important work.

For a greenhouse operator. Allocations are slot-based; speak to the desk by August.

Form
Pelleted seed, 100 k or 250 k unit can
Pack
Chilled, pallet
Cert
ISTA
Season
By order
38Drip irrigation tape, Twente

Sixteen-mil, embedded emitters

Polyethylene, 16 mm × 0.3 mm wall  ·  Twente manufacturer

The Twente plant's standard 16 mm tape with internal embedded emitters at 20 cm spacing. We supply the conversion projects our growers undertake to bring rainfed plots into drip — one of the small infrastructure investments that takes a partner farm from "interesting" to "in the catalogue".

For a farm conversion, a co-operative irrigation project. We co-finance against forward contracts.

Form
3 000 m roll
Pack
30 t / 20ft
Cert
—
Season
By order
39Greenhouse film, Eindhoven

Five-layer thermic, 200 µm

Polyethylene multilayer with EVA inner  ·  Eindhoven manufacturer

The five-layer thermic film that the Salhia complex and three of our smaller co-operative greenhouses run on. Eight-year life, diffuse-light additive, anti-drip on the inner face. We move two containers a year. Quiet, infrastructural.

For a greenhouse build or re-cover. We can advise on the spec; the manufacturer issues the warranty.

Form
200 µm five-layer, 14 m width
Pack
20 rolls / 40ft
Cert
—
Season
By order
40Dairy starter cultures, Friesland

For an Egyptian organic cheese trade that is just beginning

Mesophilic and thermophilic blends  ·  Friesland fermenter

Freeze-dried starter cultures from a small Friesland fermenter, in DVI (direct-vat-inoculation) sachets sized for the modest-scale Egyptian organic dairy. We move the cultures to four producers — three in the Delta and one in Borg El-Arab — who are building a domestic organic feta and a karish-style fresh cheese. A small line, an interesting one.

For a small organic dairy. Cold-chain only, ex-Schiphol, air to Cairo.

Form
DVI sachet, 50 U or 100 U
Pack
EPS chill box, air freight
Cert
EU Organic
Season
By order, monthly air

That is the forty. We will add to it slowly; we will subtract from it when a lot stops being worth shipping. A list this size only works if the editor stays close to the field.

If a lot you expect is missing, write to the desk. If a lot here interests you, the same. Talk to us.