TSW Poland 2026

Ger Huijben and Robin Stolk (Van der Avoird Trayplant) have seen an increase in plant exports to Poland over the past decade.

Marta Gruszka, Zbigniew Pisarek and Klaas de Jong (Flevoplant). Flevoplant sells plants from fellow propagators in Poland, serving the market it has built up itself in Poland in recent years.

Barbara Więckowska, Marcin Pędzisz and Andrea Saadeh (Hectre Group). The Italian company is launching a new brand: Hectre.Arc. The Italians specialise in hardware and software for sorting by colour and size of apples and pears, among others.

Neessen and Plantamos, partners in Poland

Natutec Drive, new in Poland. The first growers come to see the innovation at TSW at the Koppert stand. For Ola Woźniak, Mateusz Pluta, Alicja Momczakowska and Iremeusz Osekowski it was picture time Friday morning.

Every year, between 15 and 20 thousand visitors come to TSW. A very large proportion already came to take a look on Friday. Especially in halls 3, 4 and 5, the aisles were very full at large parts of the day.

Basrijs was at TSW for the first time. There is a lot of attention in Poland for their planting machines.

Paweł Jesiotr (Certis Belchim) points to the company's special logo for biorationals. The crop protection producer sees that the market is increasingly demanding this type of 'green product'.

A pipe-rail trolley from Berg Hortimotive on the Royal Brinkman stand, not to be missed in Dutch colours. Pictured: Maria Bogdańksa and Paweł Pawłowski

Yara puts focus on biostimulants for various crops. One of the new products is Optivi, on the market since spring 2025. The biostimulant helps improve pollination of flowering crops, among other things.

Holland Heater, present at the HB-System stand

Product Polski, on the packaging of SoFruPak

Panel discussion on stage during one of the many themed congresses held during TSW in Kielce.

Michal Osowski, Leo Vöhringer and Jakob Bernt Fausboell of VOEN Covering Systems present VOEN PEAK System

Raspberry congress full of market insights.

What are Poland's competitors in the raspberry market and where do they see opportunities?

Piet Beurskens (Rapo), Klaudiusz Królz (a grower growing with Rapo planting material and helping Piet with the language at the fair) and Mariusz Grzegorek

Mariusz Hnat and Rudolf Fizbach (Sinclair) can supply compostable labels, and machinery. Sinclair already supplies growers of pears, apples and tomatoes wants to expand to even more crops in Poland.

Tomasz Waszczykowski (Solfum), Haifa dealer.

Ser.mac at TSW for the first time with Vitaliy Nazarenko

Johan van Erven (A1 Group) was one of the Dutch visitors

Fairplant was at TSW for the first time and can provide rootstocks and in vitro services. They see opportunities in the blueberry market. Pictured: Thijs Kraaijeveld, Silke Bleeker and Andrzej Styla.

Want to know how this Helleborus feels? Vivent measures it and shows it at Andermatt's stand.

Prinest specialises, among other things, in paper tray liners, an alternative to plastic.

Europlast. In the morning neighbours at breakfast, later that morning at the fair for a photo.

Green Sort brought a lot of big machine lines for a closer look.

Green Sort's sorting machines are used, among other things, for apples, a major crop in Poland for which there was also much attention at TSW.

Just making some content with a tractor from LS Tractor.

Sorting apples at, you guessed it: Sorter.

Hall 6 was full of large machines, mostly for outdoor crops. Poland is a big agricultural country. On the way from Warsaw to Kielce, you come across lots of orchards along the highway.

Gabriel Chojnacki and Tomasz Górski (Syngenta) with the pink tomato variety Malistar. Still the majority of tomato crops in Poland are focused on pink varieties. Malistar is a rugose resistant pink tomato variety.

CEO Antonino Principato of Aster drew attention to drip irrigation, for which the company offers several solutions.

Salvi Vivai supplies strawberry plants in Poland.

For MSC, it is the third time to be at TSW. Growing in a new market takes time, say Mikel Perez and Joaquin Alfonso.

Geoplant Vivai brought strawberry starting material to talk to fair visitors about.

Lumiforte shows Cropshader, a product specifically for orchards. There was a lot of focus on orchards at TSW.

The stand of SoFruPak was full of all kinds of packaging for all kinds of fruits and vegetables.

Jürgen Braun on stage as speaker on behalf of Kiku, known for apple variety Adema.

Looking for 1 of TSW's 460 exhibitors spread across 7 exhibition halls in Targi Kielce.

Just demonstrating an innovation at Biobest. These visitors are having fun with the technique on biological control agents to put out.

Substrates from Botanicoir and Legro to choose from.

Marcin and Magdalene Hermanowicz represented Carolus Fruit Trees.

Grzegorz Mironiuk and Michał Domański (Milbor) next to sorting machine MXM for blueberries.

"Oh, you're a colleague from Freshplaza Italia? We know them." Team photo from TSW for Mazzoni Group.

The new generation is already getting to know the varieties from Wing Seed, Erasem, Tera Seeds and Voltz Seeds. These four breeding companies shared a stand.

Stas has been a presence at TSW for some 20 years says Stefaan Stas (far left)

Even in Polish, we understand what you use Huwa-San TR-50 for: dezynfecja.

Kyrylo Gliuza of Begrow sees growers switching from coco substrate to rockwool in strawberry growing.

Karol Bańzyr represented Schwanteland Jungpflanzen, which propagates vegetable plants just across the border with Germany for open field growers in Poland, among other countries.

Eniko Barakonyi (Artevos) peels just one more apple to taste.

Firas Talas and Jonas Späth (Südwestdeutsche Saatsucht) update fair visitors on the options on offer for green and white asparagus.

Fruit Support brought Frost Fans, among others.

In hall 1a, the newest hall of the growing fair, we will find, among others, Budtunelagro

Daria Noda did a tour of the fair on behalf of Blue Radix.

The last visitors leave the demo nursery on day 1 of a busy TWS in Kielce.

Monika, Pieter, Peter and Julia Cornelissen (Cornelissen Fruit and Tree Nurseries). The Dutch company has been operating in Poland since 2005. It has been scaling up over the last decade or so. Sorting of the rootstocks produced in the Netherlands takes place in Poland.

Aleksandra Wronka and Marcin Krasoń had a good first day at TSW.

At Hazera, the beginning of Day 2 was the time for the team photo. We were not the only ones who came to take one. The team was already pretty much in position.

At Omnivent, you can see how their technology works in this demo setup.

Sismatec has new premises in Poznan for extra good local service.

To give you an idea of what Legsad is like when they are not at the fair. At Legsad, you will also come across a Proseal machine, from Sismatec's trade fair neighbours.

Multivac, with packaging in four parts that you can fold into a rectangular block. In the packaging, you can pack different types of vegetables separately together for a varied healthy meal. Karol Kapluk demonstrates how it works.

This is what such a folded Multivac package will look like.

Jerry Arkesteijn together with Joost van Ruijven and their Polish-speaking buddy pictured for this fair on behalf of Beekenkamp Verpakkingen. The packaging specialist was at TSW for the first time and had a good fair.

Partners in Poland: Genson Quality Plants and PlantAgro. Miroslaw Palczowski, Andrzej Selwa (PlantAgro) and John Gordon and Martin van Koppen (Genson)

You could walk by as often as you wanted, there were always people at the stand at Poland Plants, closely related to Vissers Aardbeiplanten as you can also see from the logo.

Plantenkwekerij De Kemp, active in Poland for many years. Pictured: Dariusz Bujak, Karolina Bujak and Paul Litjens.

Zawada Tech supplies Bucon products, another Dutch connection found on TSW.

Radosław Suchorzewski of Bayer with a flyer for ResiYou. Bayer was on a stand together with De Ruiter and Seminis. At Bayer Crop Science, topics included ResiYou, which gives growers insight into residue in strawberry cultivation, among others.

UPL's GoActiv story explained with this demo setup in the shape of an apple tree.

Toon Vanryckel, Wojciech Gawryś, Peter Durlet (Depa Fruit) and Thijmen Tiersma (GroentenNieuws)

Animated conversation at Aranet's sensor setup.

At the 'under cover' conference, the topics discussed included ToBRFV. Resistant varieties are also being grown in Poland, although many growers still dare to do without resistant varieties, for example when growing pink tomatoes.

There was also space at the fair for all kinds of smaller stands, such as here from BeeBreath. The beehive is used to improve the air in rooms.

C.Kaack Pflanzenvermehrung was in hall 1a, the newest of 7 halls where especially last-minute registrants still found a place.

The 'under cover' conference was held in Polish, with AI translation for those not fluent in the language. The real diehards still tried to get valuable information from the Polish speakers that way. Saturday there was also an English-language congress on strawberries, with a much larger audience.

A stand of stature, this greenhouse from Progress Tunnels

Haygrove brought a tunnel greenhouse as a stand.

More and more crops are also moving out of the ground in Poland to substrate, for example a coco substrate supplied by Royal Brinkman.

Full house at the strawberry conference on Saturday at TSW in Kielce.

Hortplant, one of the Polish players in strawberry plant propgation. Hortplant also has its own breeding. Some variety names are on the banners to the left. In the photo: Jerzy Dominikowski and Katarzyna Grymuza

Niewczas Szkółka is a Polish propagator of strawberry plants. The leaflet with all the options was eagerly received.

Boryna Plant, also present as Polish strawberry plant propagator.

Belgium's BAB was present at TSW with harvesting trucks. Marcin Oracz is pictured with it.

Drone at Vector Agr Polska to spread plant protection products in the field with.

Packing onions at Sorpac, which indicated with a flag in its booth that it had received EU funding.

Marcin Kościelny (Imago) says they are working with Richel Group. Together with Richel, they can handle larger projects.

Several film greenhouse builders found their way to TSW, including Geo Polska.

The strawberry variety Karima in Mattivi's stand.

Agronom Plants. The beautiful light screens made you feel for a moment as if you were standing among strawberry plants at this Polish propagator.

France was presented as a frontrunner in 'zero residue'. Poland is also cutting back on the use of crop protection products and is tightening residue requirements.

Leon Wessel, Krzysztof Kedziora and Raphael Schulze Heuling (Heuling Farming Solutions) were at TSW for the first time and attracted a lot of attention with their Rankenschneider and Rundballenstrohstreurer 981, among others.

Demonstration of an apple picker at the Instytut Ogrodnictwa stand.

Not a car wash but a blueberry harvester at Jagoda

Armando Alvarez was an exhibitor at TSW for the first time and drew attention to SecondSky and Solar Schrink. Pablo López and Olga Petrova represent Armando Alvarez

Sorma Group, represented at Toropak's stand with a variety of machines.

Various substrate recipes including coconut fibre at Ceres.

One of the well-known names in Polish greenhouse horticulture: Mularski.

Hazera has a big market share in broccoli in Poland

Agarius System celebrated a 20-year anniversary.

Several exhibitors from the Netherlands drove to Kielce. Flying is also possible, to Warsaw or Krakow. This is the Warsaw skyline on Thursday morning just after sunrise.

Boxed vegetables on the shelf at Biedronka, including Dutch vine tomatoes and Moroccan cherry tomatoes.

Another look at tomatoes at the local Biedronka branch in Kielce. Dutch and Belgian cherry tomatoes.

Of course, we also encounter pink tomatoes at Biedronka.