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Audiolibro producido por la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica). Autores: José Dilmer Moreno y María del Socorro Cerón.

Productores se beneficiarán con mayor valor agregado. El Gobierno Regional Puno, mediante la Dirección Regional de Agricultura y el Proyecto Cultivos Andinos, entregará 19 módulos demostrativos para darle mayor valor agregado en el procesamiento de cul...

Greg Donald, general manager of the Prince Edward Island potato board, is looking back on a good year:

Potato Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 6.99 million cwt of raw potatoes during October, down 1 percent from October 2009, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

In flexible packaging, aluminum foil (hereafter foil) is the benchmark for barrier substrates when the requirements are protection against gases, moisture, and light.

A new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) challenges previous analyses of the food price crisis of 2007-08.

Calbee Foods Co. of Japan has awarded its top productivity prize to employees at its United States joint-venture RDO-Calbee Foods.

Krunchers! Inc. is recalling Jays Original Potato Chips because of Undeclared Milk Allergen

The preliminary production estimate for the 2010 Canadian potato crop is 97,279,000 hundredweights (4 412 575 tonnes).

As the US begins to emerge from recession, restaurants are seeing lapsed customers return.

Snyder's of Hanover will begin construction on a solar farm that will be the largest ground-based solar energy system in Pennsylvania

In consultation with the New Brunswick Potato Industry, the New Brunswick Regulation 82-70 of the Potato Disease Eradication Act has been amended to include Mandatory Post-Harvest Laboratory Testing for Potato Virus Y (PVY)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has established a Potato Sector Biosecurity Advisory Group (PSBAG), which will guide the development of a voluntary National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Potato Sector.

On independent restaurant menus, potatoes of all kinds account for 44% of all carbs, according to MenuMine.

El chuño, el alimento andino heredado de nuestros ancestros, contiene al menos cinco compuestos antioxidantes que pueden prevenir las enfermedades cardiovasculares. Así lo demuestra un estudio realizado por el químico de alimentos Mauricio Peñarrieta y...

La planta industrial de papas prefritas congeladas que McCain Argentina posee en Balcarce, se mantiene paralizada desde el domingo a raíz de mejoras en las condiciones de trabajo reclamadas por sus empleados. Solicitan buenos tratos y denuncian “discri...

Idaho’s potato production is expected to total 114 million cwt, down 14 percent from last year’s 133 million cwt and 2 percent below the 2008 crop.