Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

The potato production in Pakistan has significantly risen and it touched the figures of 2919.21 thousand tons during 2007-08 fiscal year against the set target of 2148.26 thousand tons.  Official sources in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livesto...

At Penn State, thousands of potato varieties from around the globe are put through extensive cross-breeding programs, genetic research and intercollegiate collaborations.

A severe shortage of potatoes nationwide has sent prices soaring, and they’ll probably go higher in the coming weeks if weak supply projections for July and August hold true, grower-shippers and industry officials said.On June 3, the U.S. Department o...

The Potato Company (TPC) uit Emmeloord probeert sinds enkele jaren de aardappelteelt in Burkina Faso van de grond te krijgen, om zodoende het tekort aan aardappels op te heffen.   Dat blijkt lastiger dan verwacht. Twee jaar geleden vertrok de 21-jarig...

A consortium hoping to make plastics from Maine potatoes has received more than $650,000 to further develop the proposal.

Belarus retains the first place in the world as the producer of potato per capita. The annual gross harvest of potato exceeds 8 mln. tons in the Republic;i.e., 700-900 kg/year is allocated per each adult inhabitant. This information has been released ...

Esta guía tiene por finalidad difundir las “buenas prácticas de procesamiento” (BPP) para la elaboración artesanal de la tunta, con el propósito de promover la producción de alimentos que no constituyan un riesgo para la salud y cumplan con las carac...

President Alan Garcia says his government will offer Peru's potato farmers an emergency microcredit amid rising farming costs. Garcia told reporters that the program would provide financial aid to potato farmers dealing with the rising prices of fertil...

Los Angeles County has implemented a voluntary program in which restaurants can be certified as "trans fat free"and receive a decal to display that fact to customers.Both the city and county of Los Angeles considering banning the use of trans...

Uitgaande van de eerste, voorlopige inschattingen is voor de teelt 266.000 hectare ingeruimd. Dat is 3,3 procent minder dan vorig jaar toen de teeltoppervlakte 275.000 hectare omvatte.De langjarige neergaande trend - die vorig jaar werd onderbroken met...

Peru and Chile, long-time rivals, are each laying claim to the humble vegetable, which experts agree is indigenous to South America and was spread to Europe by Spanish colonists in the 16th century. At stake is the reflected glory of being the home of ...

Over de wereldwijde voedselcrisis heeft iedereen de voorbije weken zijn zegje gedaan, van de Groene Kring tot voormalig Sovjetleider Michail Gorbatsjov.Maar wat moeten we tot hiertoe onthouden van alle reacties en intentieverklaringen? Wat moet er vera...

Efforts to reduce acrylamide remain a priority as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concludes risk assessments regarding the carcinogen will stay the same. EFSA organised a scientific colloquium in Italy last month, to debate how the current po...

De Wereldbank stelt dit jaar zes miljard euro ter beschikking voor de financiering van landbouwprojecten. De Amerikaanse voorzitter Robert Zoellick gaat volgende week naar de FAO-voedseltop met een arsenaal aan schenkingen, leningen en verzekeringen. &...

De aardappelloods van aardappelverwerkingsbedrijf Schaap Holland in Biddinghuizen wordt omgebouwd tot een oranje Kartoffelarena.Vanaf zaterdag kunnen hier de verrichtingen van het Nederlands elftal tijdens het Europees kampioenschap voetbal worden gevo...

Bangladeshi farmers produced a record eight million tonnes of potato in a year that has witnessed a steep fall in rice production caused by floods and a cyclone that hit last November. Facing a dual challenge of importing rice and saving the potato’s ...

Braddon MHA Bryan Green says a new state-of-the-art storage facility on the North-West Coast builds on the region’s reputation as Australia’s premier potato-growing area.Mr Green today officially opened the $2 million development undertaken by long tim...

Chile y Perú, enfrentados desde hace meses por un conflicto de límites marítimos que aún aguarda un fallo en La Haya, y desde mucho antes por la autoría del pisco, inauguraron esta semana un nuevo diferendo al enfrentarse por la propiedad del origen d...