Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas

Het rooien van de hoofdoogst zal vanaf volgende week echt op gang komen. Volgens insiders is momenteel 10% van de hoofdoogst gerooid en is ca. 80% van de gewassen doodgespoten.   Er zal worden begonnen met o.a. de rassen Bintje, Maritiema en Innovator,...

Avebe heeft dit seizoen alle aardappelen nodig, concludeert Jos Steenhuis, NAV-lid afdeling Veenkoloniën, na het gesprek met grondstoffendirecteur Addy Risseeuw.   Hoe meer aardappelen Avebe verwerkt, hoe beter de fabrieken worden benut. Dat zorgt voo...

Los ministerios de Agricultura (Minag) y de la Producción están trabajando en conjunto para desarrollar nuevas harinas de camote o papa como alternativa ante el incremento del precio del trigo, informó hoy el titular del Minag, Ismael Benavides.

Very low grain harvests and an increasing interest in crops for bio-ethanol has sent world market grain prices sky-high. Starch potato farmers in the EU are consequently putting heavy pressure on the starch factories to obtain higher prices for their ...

Jim Tiede operates a farm with his son Alex in the Flat of Pleasant valley and the harvest has just begun. Jim said he didn't expect this year's potato yield to be as good as last year's record crop, but he was encouraged by what they found once they ...

The Idaho Potato Commission announced initiatives for its 2007-08 season that include the release of two new commercials with spokesperson Denise Austin and the launch of a major cable television commercial campaign expected to make over a billion con...

Bill Brewer, executive director of the Oregon Potato Commission, said that potato growers are looking for a return to normal production in 2007. "So far, we're happy with the quality,"Mr. Brewer told The Produce News. "Potato growers are...

Futures trading in potato started last year with contracts available on both MCX and NCDEX and things began changing. The MCX contract is based on prices at the cold storage and the NCDEX contract is based on mandi prices at Delhi. The average daily tu...

Het verwerkingscijfer in juli 2007 viel met 187.700 ton aardappelen flink tegen. Uit het overzicht van het HPA (bron) blijkt dat het cijfer de afgelopen 23 maanden nog niet zo is laag geweest. Vorig jaar in juli werden er 214.200 ton aardappelen tot c...

Americans love their spuds, consuming 130 pounds per person annually. Now that culinary love affair could grow even more passionate with Agricultural Research Service (ARS) findings that some potato varieties are packed with health-promoting compounds...

China is now accusing the United States of shipping contaminated products there. It's the latest round in the battle over unsafe products. China's safety chief says tests found "poisonous and dangerous substances"in almost 22 tons of frozen...

First place at the McCain Champion Grower competition came as a bit of a shock for this year’s winners. “I guess we’re certainly surprised,” said Dan Sawatzky from Sawatzky Enterprises of Mac-Gregor, named 2007 Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Foo...

Spuds are no longer the top agricultural commodity in Idaho as measured by annual cash receipts. Potatoes yielded that position to the dairy industry several years ago. But spuds are still a huge part of Idaho's agricultural economy, according to a Un...

Una planta empacadora de tubérculos y raíces, que se instalará próximamente en el distrito de Ocú, pudiese ayudar a resolver el problema del rechazo que tienen algunos productos cuya apariencia los descalifica para su comercialización (...) Ésta es la...

De hoofdoogst van dit teeltseizoen gaat van start. Uit de diverse proefrooiingen (week 35) is gebleken dat de hectareopbrengsten redelijk tot goed worden. Opvallend is wel dat de gewassen vroeger lijken af te rijpen dan in andere jaren, de herfst tre...

The gross potato harvest in all types of agricultural enterprises is expected to reach the level 8.9 mln. tons in Belarus in 2007 comparing to 8.3 mln. of tons in 2006;the Department of fruit&vegetable production, processing and trade of the Minist...

Tasmanian potato growers have won an average $30 a tonne price rise for next season from processor McCain Foods. The company also wants an extra 30,000 tonnes of Tasmanian spuds to make up for expected shortfalls in Victoria because of the drought.

THE extent of losses to the 2007 potato crop from flood, waterlogging and blight is provisionally estimated at 3,300 hectares (2.6 per cent of total plantings). Hardest hit areas are from Herefordshire and Shropshire, across to Nottinghamshire and N...