Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

The Edinburgh Convention Bureau has announced that the 8th World Potato Congress will be staged in Edinburgh in 2012.At least 600 potato specialists from around the world will attend the event 417 years after Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan explore...

The stock price of potato starch manufacturer China Essence Group, listed at the Singapore Exchange, dropped 36%.   The drop in the stock price triggered the Singapore Exchange to query the China Essence Group regarding trading activity, which meanwhi...

El Buró de Convenciones de Edimburgo anunció que el octavo Congreso Mundial de la Papa se celebrará en la ciudad de Edimburgo en 2012. Al menos 600 especialistas de papa de todo el mundo asistirán al evento, 417 años después de que Sir Walter Raleigh,...

The agricultural industry of Belarus can be a reliable source of foreign currency revenues, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Ivan Bambiza said at a joint session of the two chambers of the National Assembly and members of the government of Belarus on 2...

Global Potato Tours is organizing its first international tour, scheduled to take place June 27 - July 4, 2010 on the largest potato producing province of Canada - Prince Edward Island. Tour members will be introduced in person to many individuals invo...

La papa, considerada como una de las contribuciones más importantes de la región andina para el mundo, fue exportada por US$ 241 mil 342 en los primeros cuatro meses del año, según cifras preliminares de la Asociación de Exportadores (ADEX). Asimismo,...

Canada exported 14.0 million cwt of potatoes and potato products during the January-March quarter. According to the editor of North American Potato Market News (NAPMN), Bruce Huffaker, that fell 1.7 million cwt short of the 2009 pace, a 10.7% decline. ...

The sector of Andalusian Early Potato, belonging to Asociafruit, will hold the second edition of their congress. These will take place in Seville on the seventh (7th) of October.

The infectious potato disease Dickeya solani has been found in a ware crop growing in Perthshire.The species is an aggressive, form of the seed-borne bacterial disease, blackleg.Scotland had recently established rules to keep the disease out. But repor...

Australian scientists at SARDI are making major strides in diagnosing potato diseases before the potato crop is planted.Watch ABC video on this topicAustralia’s $500 million-plus potato industry will benefit from new DNA tests that can quickly and accu...

Rumours circulating at the weekend that various levy boards such as the British Potato Council would come under the UK government's axe were rubbished yesterday. East Lothian farmer Allan Stevenson said: "If the government intends getting rid of t...

When a major South American pest infests potato tubers, the plant produces bigger spuds, reports a study by Cornell, University of Goettingen and National University of Colombia researchers.The secret is in the spit, write the researchers online in the...

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...