Maximise your farm profitability

You want to secure your vegetable production and maximise your profitability. From unpredictable weather conditions to water availability and diseases, the challenges you face to improve your performance are plenty. Sakata understands these challenges and offers solutions.

High-yield varieties
to deliver performance

High yield does not only mean greater quantity but also best-quality produce.

To help you improve yield and increase your profits so you remain competitive in the market, Sakata provides a range of highly productive vegetable varieties. These include:

Don Quixote F1, a high-yielding and tasty Piel del Sapo melons
Sweet Ball F1, a very productive red cherry tomato
Ithaca F1, a high-yield broccoli for winter harvest

Disease-resistant
varieties

As global temperatures rise, the risk to your production from disease and pest infestation amplifies.

It can result in significant yield losses and impact your profitability.

Securing your yield by growing varieties with good resistance is essential. That’s why Sakata provides a range of vegetable varieties with intermediate or built-in resistance.

Chocostar F1, a tomato with IR to ToBRFV
Aurora F1, a beet resistant to Rhizomania
Peridot F1, a spinach variety with HR to Pe. 1-20
Interstellar F1, a bunching onion with good resistance to downy mildew
Kiseki F1, a Chinese cabbage with HR to Clubroot
Accord F1, a cabbage with thrips damage rarely observed

Heat-tolerant
varieties

With climate change, extreme heat is a threat to your crops and can affect your yield consequently.

Certain crops such as squash, pepper, and tomato are particularly vulnerable to heat stress during their flowering and fruiting stages. To assist you in ensuring optimal yield performance even in hot conditions, Sakata focuses on creating heat-tolerant vegetable varieties that use nutrients and water more efficiently.

TOM02406 F1

a hot-set tomato that can be grown in very hot conditions

Bambino F1

a hot-setting pointed pepper

Mykonos F1

a broccoli that has excellent heat-tolerance

Uniformity is key!

The key to increase sales and profits is to meet your client’s expectations of uniformity.

You need to harvest the largest possible quantity of top-quality produce. To support you, Sakata creates vegetable varieties you can grow to ensure consistency in size, shape and colour such as:

Parthenon F1, a high-performing broccoli with uniform head size
Ariel F1, a butternut squash with uniform fruit size
Matga F1, a blocky California pepper with perfect uniformity

Grower-friendly
& easy-packing

Harvesting, postharvest handling, and packing are critical steps in your production.

You must ensure that your produce reaches your clients in the best possible conditions to avoid any losses that could reduce your revenue. As a solution, Sakata provides vegetable varieties that are easy to harvest and handle such as:

Amiral F1, with its outstanding firmness, this tomato can endure handling
Ascona F1, an easy-to-harvest zucchini variety
Concept F1, an easy to pack cauliflower due to its closely wrapped leaves

Shelf-life
& freshness

Vegetables are highly perishable, which makes shelf life a crucial concern for both you and your clients.

You need to avoid your produce ripening and expiring early during transportation and storage.To help you minimize, Sakata develops varieties with ability to maintain freshness. Sakata’s varieties with a long shelf life include: