The stories of Antonis Vezyroglou and "the Vezyroglou Farm" by Rijk Zwaan
05/09/2017
The farm was bought in 1914 and started production by the Vezyroglou family in 1922. It shifted to the production of vegetables under the name of “the Vezyroglou Farm" in 2006.
It is a complex, vertical and integrated unit for the production and packaging of fresh leafy vegetables. The production takes place in Alexandria, Imathia, on a farm of 70 hectares with 25 hectares of nethouses and 6,5 hectares of greenhouses. With an emphasis on innovation, the farm products with the trademark of the hare that expresses the freshness of the vegetables, aim at the quality, the reliability of the company and the service to its customers. Antonis Vezyroglou is the man who inspired and directed the successful course of the business.
Antonis Vezyroglou / Owner, CEO:
"The first two or three years were very difficult. We did not even know how to cultivate. Our relationship with Rijk Zwaan Hellas, then Agrosystem, started immediately as we started the production of lettuce. I remember the first box I bought myself from a store in our area. Since then we have a very close cooperation with Rijk Zwaan. The first years were mainly agricultural consulting. After learning more or less the crops, we started some trips abroad, in order to contact with foreign producers much bigger than us, and other actors in the foreign market and all this in the context of training and information by Rijk Zwaan and respectively by us preparing for something better. Every year we schedule a plan of experimental varieties, together with Rijk Zwaan agronomists, in order to improve the selection of varieties for next year. Now our cooperation is very good, in three words we could summarize that they trust us, listen to our requests, our problems and support us. "
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