pcfruit npa offers via the unit ‘Service to Companies’ more than 70 years of experience in research and development of new products in the fruit sector. On a fee for service basis, trials are executed for SME’s and multinationals at various stages of product development: the ideation phase, proof of concept, development, product positioning, validation and official trials. For the latter ones, we have a GEP accreditation, allowing acceptance of efficacy trials with new crop protection by authorities throughout the central European zone. Trials can be small or big scale in any of our facilities: labs, climate chambers, cages, glasshouse, plastic tunnels, fields or orchards. Areas of expertise are crop protection, fertilization and irrigation, cultivar evaluation, machinery and equipment, other resources, IT and software, sensors and diagnostics…