Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

Keystone Potato Products is committed to sustainability: In 2000, co-op members began looking at building a dehydrated potato processing facility in Pennsylvania – which would be the first dehy plant on the East Coast. A local plant would provide a ma...

Op een paar “hoekjes” na zijn alle aardappelen in Nederland gerooid. Datzelfde geldt ook voor de ons omringende landen waar veel fritesaardappelen worden geteeld. De rooiperiode werd gekenmerkt door gunstige weersomstandigheden waardoor er weinig prob...

El Año Internacional de la Papa (AIP) se convierte en una oportunidad para impulsar y consolidar una serie de acciones alternativas para el sector de la papa en Ecuador, a través del fortalecimiento organizacional de los productores;de mejorar su gesti...

The typical Western diet — fried foods, salty snacks and meat — accounts for about 30 percent of heart attack risk across the world, according to a study of dietary patterns in 52 countries reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Associ...

Greenvale AP, the leading supplier of British potatoes, has come top in sustainability of food production, according to the latest results of a two-year research project just published by the Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing.The Competi...

Kenyan Minister of Agriculture William Ruto has said that the Kenya Government has entered into partnership with a Dutch company to help rejuvenate the production and marketing of potatoes. Mr Ruto also said that his ministry is finalising the pape...

Potato harvest is winding down in the Columbia Basin this week, with contracted growers reporting decreased profits and fresh market prices more than doubling from last year.Fresh market prices for Russet Norkotahs increased last year from between $4.7...

A 20km quarantine zone in Thorpdale's potato region has been declared following the discovery of potato cyst nematode. The discovery, made during routine crop surveys required to meet standards for seed potato certification, could have a devastating ef...

Angola Development Bank (BDA) project of credit for peasants in the country will rise the production of potato in the district of Chinguar, 75 kilometres southwest of Kuito city, central Bie province.Speaking to Angop on Friday, Alfeo Vinevala, one of ...

Het zou goed zijn als de wetenschap daar in de komende jaren energie in steekt, zegt Cees van Arendonk, voorzitter van de Nederlandse Aardappelorganisatie.Van Arendonk sprak vandaag tijdens een minisymposium over het blootleggen van de genetische code ...

In a survey conducted by Clear Seas Research on October 13th, food industry insiders expressed concern over the impact of the current credit crisis -- both on their companies and on the food/beverage industry as a whole. While some believe the credit c...

A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations as part of International Year of the Potato celebrations in 2008.Photographic essays by Eitan Abramovich, profe...

The affected potato growers whose potatoes were damaged in Kaltahar Cold storage in Islampur in 2003 and did not receive any compensation yet today turned up in the premises of Kaltahar cold storage in Islampur and started agitation under the banner o...

In Nederland zijn door de gunstige weersomstandigheden van de afgelopen dagen de rooiwerkzaamheden weer op gang gekomen. Dit na de vertraging als gevolg van de flinke hoeveelheid regen van vorig weekeinde. Geschat wordt dat momenteel nog zo’n 20% van d...

Potatoes are just big and brown on the outside and white on the inside, right?Wrong."There are hundreds of varieties of potatoes out there,"said Meredith Myers, public relations manager for the U.S. Potato Board.Most people recognize the basi...

HZPC Holland B.V. realiseerde dit boekjaar een resultaat, dat nog iets hoger lag dan de recordwinst van boekjaar 2006/2007. Na belastingen bedroeg de winst 7,3 miljoen euro, vorig jaar 6,7 miljoen euro. De omzet in pootaardappelen steeg met 15 miljoen ...

Potato prices continued their seasonal slide over the past week as harvest progressed and poorer quality processing material was brought straight to the market. The Potato Council’s GB weekly average price was down to £110.24/t last week, some £10/t do...

The first snow storm of the year hit during Idaho's spud harvest.  Now growers have to stop digging the state's famous crop. One grower who explains about the snow and cold and what happens now with the harvest.   A wet spring delayed some growers fr...