ITC subsidiary Technico is adding 60 controlled-environment greenhouses to expand its aeroponic potato seed facility, raising TECHNITUBER mini-tuber capacity to 100 million and boosting disease-free seed production for potato growers.

Sandip Thakker, Founder of SK Group, was honoured as 'Pioneer of Potato Export' at GPS 2025 for building export-ready infrastructure, contract farming, cold-chain systems and positioning India as a global, value-added potato supplier.

Technico Agri Sciences Limited (a 100% subsidiary of ITC Ltd.) is an Agri-Biotech Company involved in the business of producing and selling 'Early Generation' high vigor seed potatoes, with its award winning TECHNITUBER® Seed Technology.

Continuing its push to promote healthier variants of potatoes, FMCG major ITC is set to begin trial cultivation of red potatoes at Chandrala village of Gandhinagar district in Gujarat. Red potatoes are a variety recently launched by the company...

James Hutton Limited, has entered into a five-year agreement with Technico Agri Sciences, a subsidiary of Indian company ITC Limited, to provide 16 potato varieties and 600 clones to be trialled and tested in India.

Though onion prices are yet to cool down, potato prices have dropped at the retail end. An early good crop of potatoes in Punjab, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh has pushed down the prices.

The scare of light blight attack in Karnataka not withstanding, India’s potato output could rise by six per cent to eight per cent in 2009-2010, according to traders and analysts. In 2008-09, the output was placed at 260 lakh tonnes, down from the high...

With prevailing prices of potato ruling at Rs 18-20 kg, the potato seed companies are expecting the acreage to increase by 5-6% from 16 lakh hectares in 2008-09. Experts say this could double potato seed prices during the rabi season. "For the pas...