Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

Minister Verburg van LNV verwacht niet dat de teelt van de genetisch gemodificeerde Amflora-fabrieksaardappel van BASF een grote vlucht zal nemen in Nederland. Amflora is namelijk onvoldoende resistent tegen de wratziekte en mag daarom niet in het Nede...

Farmers across Aroostook County are taking full advantage of a stretch of dry weather to get this year’s crop in the ground.   “A majority of the farmers will have 85 percent of their crop in by this weekend,” Timothy Hobbs, director of development wit...

De Nederlandse pootgoedexport is gestegen tot boven de 700.000 ton. Dit betekent een opsteker voor de pootgoedtelers, omdat de afzet daarmee hoger uitvalt dan verwacht. Eerder gingen de grote handelshuizen uit van een vergelijkbare hoeveelheid ten op...

Worldwide, late blight is rated the worst of potato diseases. Intermittently since the 1990s, spores have turned up in commercial fields of Idaho, Washington, California and Oregon. When the spore is present it reproduces like a wildfire in cool, mois...

There was a need to constitute a potato promotion board at the central level in order to look into various issues beginning from cultivation to consumption of the tuber in the country. The matter was discussed at the annual meeting of the Federation of...

Potato growers across Australia have been urged to protect the local industry from a major pest which has established itself in New Zealand. New Zealand potato producers have been coming to terms with the disease Zebra chip. The disease is seen as...

As Guizhou prepares for the three-day 2010 China potato festival to be held on May 28, statistics show that potato cultivation in the region is continuing to expand.According to statistics, the potato planting areas in Guizhou province has increased fr...

Only months after its launch, Greenvale has won no less than two influential awards for Project Cascade, its innovative root vegetable washing system.

Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 6.90 million cwt of 2009 crop raw potatoes during April, up 5.5 percent from April 2009. Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon have used 56.1 million cwt of 2009 crop raw potatoes to May 1, ...

It is enough to make a patriotic Russian need a stiff drink to get over the shock - an English vodka has been voted the best in the world.

Developing a chemical attractant to monitor and manage the potato psyllid is the goal of a new cooperative agreement signed in March between the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of California (UC) at Riverside.

Six out of ten American consumers say they are eating healthier (34% much/26% somewhat) since the recession began in 2008, and a majority of consumers (51%) say they have also tried to get fitter to better withstand the pressures of the recession.The L...

The European Union has agreed to import unlimited amounts of Egyptian potatoes duty-free starting in June. Since the beginning of this year, Egypt has exported a total of 261,108 tons of potatoes, of which 171,223 tons went to the EU and 90,000 tons t...

Growers of processing potatoes in Manitoba have approved a deal with McCain Foods which will see production drop by 12 percent, with prices down around 15 percent. Gary Sloik, general manager of the Keystone Potato Producers Association, says growers w...

On the heels of the buyout news from Rubio’s Restaurants Inc., Keybanc Capital Markets analyst Brad Ludington has offered up three possibly tantalizing meals for the next hungry private-equity firm. Ludington said in a report Wednesday that he is con...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board said it is disappointed that Cavendish Farms is appealing a new mediation and arbitration rule put in place this year. Under the Potato Board order, contracts must be worked out between Island potato processing p...

Snack brand Golden Wonder is set to launch a six-figure marketing campaign to boost the brand across Scotland after what the company says has been a year of substantial growth. The integrated £500,000 campaign represents the first significant marke...

McCain Foods is laying off about 10 per cent of its workforce in Portage la Prairie this fall and Manitoba potato producers are expecting a leaner crop year.About 40 people out of a workforce of about 400 at McCain's in Portage are expected to be laid ...