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Potatoes USA announces nominations are now open for new Board Members for the 2018-2021 term. Fifty-eight members will be elected or re-elected to fill open seats and the seats of outgoing Board Members who are completing their second three-year term in March 2018.

Así lo anunció el Director General Agrícola del Ministerio de Agriculturai, Ángel Manero, y agregó que 'cada peruano consume 85 kilos al año'.

Heat and Control delivers another 2-Stage French Fry fryer system out of its Hayward, USA manufacturing facility to make batter coated French fries.

New packaging equipment at a Prince Edward Island Potato Packer, purchased with a loan from ACOA (the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency), is expected to help the company reach new customers.

The National Potato Council (NPC) applauded the Trump Administration’s announcement today to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Utz® Quality Foods, LLC. is teaming up with the USO to support military service members and their families through the launch of its new Utz® Grillin’ Classics™ Potato Chips

Con la aplicación de técnicas avanzadas en los laboratorios del Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá (Idiap) se logró producir semilla de papa nacional, la cual se llevó a los productores de Tierras Altas y se obtuvo la primera cosecha comercial de papa.

Con apoyo de China, Taiwán, Honduras pretende revertir la dependencia de las importaciones en cultivos agrícolas, como la papa, ya que solo en semilla representa una fuga de divisas de 130 millones de lempiras.

PepsiCo has today confirmed that its ambitious new target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction has been verified and approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative as being in line with what climate science says is necessary to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius.

With little fanfare, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control unanimously approved on Friday morning the registration of three new types of genetically engineered potatoes that have been developed by Simplot Plant Sciences.

Los productores esperan que se registre una mejoría en el mercado para comercializar el importante producto alimenticio.

Mediante el estudio del genoma de papas nativas de Nariño, una investigación en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (U.N.) indaga secuencias de tolerancia a estrés por déficit de agua que permitan obtener papas comerciales con esta característica.

Contacto con la embajada del Reino de los Países Bajo para concretar la presencia de relatores de nivel mundial y reuniones con la Municipalidad de Osorno y la SEREMIA Regional para sellar el patrocinio del evento que se realizará entre el 23 y 25 de agosto próximo han sido algunas de las gestiones de la comisión organizadora.

Potandon Produce L.L.C., the exclusive marketing agent for Pinto Creek Co., LLC in Eloy, Arizona, announced Monday that its fresh potato season has begun in Arizona.

Washington potato producers will vote from June 9–23, 2017, on whether to continue the federal marketing order regulating the handling of Irish potatoes grown in Washington.

The Northwest Potato Research Consortium recently approved a combined $1.5 million in grant funding to 37 research projects.

The potato disease Dickeya can be detected by laboratory testing — but is there enough of it present to justify the higher costs? That is the question facing Canadian Seed Potato Growers exporting to the United States who are increasingly asked for the test.

TOMRA Sorting Food has launched its Portuguese website, which provides a dynamic online resource for its Portuguese-speaking customers.