Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

U.S. potato exports increased at a record pace in the third quarter, up 12 percent by volume from the same period in 2007, according to government trade data.Exports of potatoes and potato products during the July-September period totaled 1.5 billion p...

A farmer in southern Lebanon has dug up what might be the heaviest potato in the world. "This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds),"Khalil Semhat told the AFP news agency at his farm near Tyre, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut. The ...

figures from the Potato Council putting the loss at around 2% of total crop area. This year's crops have fared considerably better and, although there have been some localised losses in the West Midlands, the Scottish Borders and parts of the North an...

The UK’s leading supplier of potatoes has become the first food producer in the country to receive the Carbon Trust Standard. Branston Ltd., which supplies over 400,000 tonnes of fresh potatoes every year, was awarded the accolade in recognition of its...

A bid to synthetically produce a toxin that costs the Australian potato industry about $20 million annually might hold the key to beating the disease, Australian researchers say. Researcher Peter Molesworth, of the University of Tasmania's School of C...

The state's 2008 potato harvest was the smallest in decades thanks to losses in acreage and crop yields, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This year, Maine potato farmers produced an estimated 1.44 million pounds, 14% below the 2007 harv...

De North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) gaat uit van een totale productie van 23,1 miljoen ton. Dat is ruim 513.000 ton meer dan in september was geschat. In de NEPG zitten vertegenwoordigers van telers uit Nederland, Duitsland, België, Frankr...

De Vereniging Telers Akkerbouw (VTA) heeft rond 15 november de eerste voorrraadinventarisatie uitgevoerd voor de opgeslagen aardappelen van oogst 2008. Deze inventarisatie voert de VTA telefonsich uit onder een vaste groep leden die representatief zijn...

De kostprijs van consumptieaardappelen stijgt in het teeltseizoen 2009 naar ruim 15,5 eurocent excl. BTW (16,8 eurocent incl. BTW) voor levering maart-april 2010. Dat blijkt uit de kostprijsbegroting van de Nederlandse Akkerbouw Vakbond (NAV). Deze kos...

Frito-Lay reported for the 3rd quarter a 9% revenue growth in North America, resulting from double-digit growth at Tostitos, Ruffles and Cheetos and high-single-digit growth in trademark Lay's and Doritos.

La ONU decidió designar a 2008 como Año Internacional de la Papa y muchos han sido los fastos organizados por este motivo. Sin embargo, este tradicional cultivo de Canarias atraviesa por serios problemas que afectan más, como siempre, a nuestros agricu...

Technisch directeur Addy Risseeuw vertrekt weer bij de NAK, de Nederlandse Algemene Keuringsdienst voor zaaizaad en pootgoed van landbouwgewassen in Emmeloord. Het NAK stelt in een korte verklaring op hun website: "Bestuur en Addy zijn tot de con...

A new, healthier variety of potato is set to take the Australian market by storm. Unlike most spuds, Almera is suitable for people who are diabetic or striving to maintain a healthy weight. Graham Liney, who lives about two hours from Canberra, in La...

Los plásticos biodegradables se abren camino en el mercado español de la mano de empresas como Basf y Sphere, y se adelantan a la normativa del Plan Nacional Integral de Residuos, que se aprobará en enero de 2009. El nuevo Plan Nacional Integral de R...

Perú podría exportar papa a China pero en forma procesada, y no en la modalidad de producto fresco porque antes se deben vencer barreras fitosanitarias, señaló el ministro de Agricultura, Carlos Leyton. "En la manera en que vayamos avanzando (en ...

Total GB potato production for the 2008 harvest was up significantly on last year to 5.8m tonnes, according to the first provisional estimate by the Potato Council.The figure, based on a survey of 339 crops, was 7% higher than last season's flood-hit h...

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a record target of producing 58,99,250 tonnes of potato from 3,37,100 hectares of land during the current season in all 16 northern districts of the country. The fixed target is much higher than that ...

As the potato season draws to an close, farmers from Trashigang, the largest potato cultivating dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan, are rushing off to trade their last remains of the season in a bid to obtain the best price.But fluctuations in the price of po...