Cabbage

Cabbage is an important staple crop worldwide, well appreciated in different cultures and adapted to most climatic circumstances. Its multiple nutritional values are regaining consumers’ and processors’ interest, indicating a great future for this popular vegetable. Within the main types, there is a wide diversity in shapes, sizes, tastes and textures. Rijk Zwaan offers individual choices within each type.

Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea) is a traditional vegetable, grown for a long time in many countries in Asia. Many popular dishes from cabbage have long been associated with the lives of Asian people. With many health benefits, cabbage is used in many different dishes from boiled, stir-fried, soups to pickles and kimchi.

Rijk Zwaan has a strong position in early season varieties, including a new “Sensational Traditional Line” for pointed cabbage. For both white and red cabbage, there is a successful assortment for late season marketing and where cool storage is available, where we are paying special attention to long-term storability. Our range covers all segments in the fresh market, together with varieties with specific traits for the processing industry and dual purpose varieties in different sizes.

With the aim of adding value to cabbage, many new varieties with eye-catching shapes and colors have been put into production by growers. In Asia, Rijk Zwaan is offering certain cabbage varieties that help prolong the harvest time and have good disease resistance, leading to high yield and profit potential to growers.