Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

Florimond Desprez, an independent family‐owned company, has acquired Germicopa, the leading French potato seed company and world leader in firm flesh potato varieties.

William Chase, founder of Chase Distillery, will double production of premium spirits to 500,000 bottles this year after a bumper potato harvest.<

Potandon Produce LLC will be showcasing two new varieties at the upcoming PMA show, the Klondike Royale, a wonderful yellow fleshed potato and Smiley’s, a petite yellow-fleshed potato with naturally occurring marks on the surface of the skin which resemble smiles.

Growers of the potato variety Lamoka used for chip processing have seen a higher than normal incidence of blackleg in their fields this summer.

HZPC Holland bv, wereldleider in aardappelveredeling, maakt bekend dat tijdens de aandeelhoudersvergadering van 9 oktober jl. het dividend op HZPC‑certificaten is vastgesteld op €7,50. HZPC keert daarmee over boekjaar 2013/14 het hoogste dividend in zijn bestaansgeschiedenis uit.

Es la recomendación clave surgida de las presentaciones del XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), celebrado recientemente en la ciudad de Bogotá, y del panel sobre consumo y mercado que se realizó en dicho evento.

To improve the air distribution potato storages using boxes, Mooij Agro has developed the EVERY-AIR.

The first wave of results from the Australian industry-funded Potato Tracker project have been released, shedding encouraging new light on purchase triggers and consumption habits relating to fresh potatoes.

Hacia finales de los años 80, la localidad El Hoyo, ubicada al noroeste de la provincia del Chubut, abastecía buena parte de la demanda patagónica de papa. Pero con la llegada de nuevas corrientes migratorias, la orientación varió mayoritariamente hacia la fruta fina. Hoy se quiere revertir esa situación.

Un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN) mejoraron nuevos genotipos de papa con piel y carne de color con el objetivo de beneficiar tanto a la producción agrícola como a los consumidores.

PepsiCo Foods Vietnam Company (PFVC) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) and the Phivang Collaboration of Farmers in Vietnam to introduce a sustainable contract potato farming model into Vietnam

AUSVEG CEO Mr Richard Mulcahy has welcomed this afternoon’s announcement by the Federal Agriculture Minister, The Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP, of the composition of the Board that will head up the new research and development body for horticulture.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is advising consumers of a possible food tampering situation involving potatoes harvested and packed by Linkletter Farms Ltd. of Summerside, PEI.

AVR introduces its new and efficient Puma 3 potato harvester

Through a partnership with Cavendish Farms, the Province of Prince Edward Island is purchasing 96 acres of agricultural land in the Barclay Brook area to help protect Island rivers and fish habitat.

Su establecimiento se llevó a cabo en el XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), celebrado en la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia) entre el 28 de septiembre y el 2 de octubre de 2014.

Phosphorous acid based products can be an effective control for postharvest diseases when applying best practices. In the presentation. Learn more in the latest ‘Focus on Potato’ presentation “Phosphorous Acid and its use in Potato Post-Harvest Situations,”

A large potato storage as well as a chips processing plant are planned in Ingushetia (Russian Federation)