Leading position
The Rijk Zwaan lettuce range is extremely wide. Lettuce types like butterhead, iceberg, cos, batavia and various specialities provide enormous variation in shape, colour and flavour. Through our breeding work this variation only increases, enabling us to play into the market wishes of today. As the biggest player in lettuce we can serve our customers with specific varieties for any growing area and any season.

Reliability
Rijk Zwaan lettuce is highly reliable, so that a grower has a good yield with very few problems like bolting or tipburn. Owing to our experience of many years we are able to act quickly when new strains of downy mildew are discovered. Shelf life, colour and texture are some other traits our breeders select on.

Product development
Rijk Zwaan continues to work on improved varieties and actively looks for new products besides. For instance, lettuce that is easy to cut. With Salanova® we have even developed two unique lettuce types that only need one cut for them to separate into many small leaves. With variety development of that kind we want to further expand our leading position.

For information about our varieties visit our subsidiary in your region