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A genetically engineered, protein-enriched potato is being readied for commercial field-testing in India, scientists said.

In New South Wales, Australia, Matt Simmons can barely keep up with demand for the organic potatoes he and wife Sue grow on their 48-hectare farm on the Hawkesbury River.

The Belarusian national association of potato fruit and vegetable manufacturers Kartofelplodoovoshch and the Belarusian Republican Union of Consumer Societies Belkoopsoyuz have received an order for the express delivery of 40,000 tonnes of potatoes to Russia

In 2006 is in Nederland in ruime mate doorwas in aardappelen opgetreden. Indertijd is door onderzoekers van het PPO Lelystad n.a.v. een thema-ochtend een document opgesteld dat de kennis over doorwas op een rijtje zet.Nu bij aardappeloogst 2010 doorwas...

Biologische producten zijn niet gezonder dan reguliere producten. Ze leveren geen gezondheidswinst, concludeert de Gezondheidsraad.

President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz of the American Frozen Foods Institute (AFFI) today issued a statement responding to Mexico’s announcement of additional retaliatory import tariffs on select U.S. exports due to the ongoing cross-border trucking dispute.

With the mercury level steadily rising across India, potato growers need to switch to new varieties of heat-tolerant seeds for saving their crops, agriculture scientists have suggested.

A centre of the Shimla-based Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) will be set up in West Bengal's West Midnapur district to make quality potato seeds favourable to the state's climatic condition available to the farmers.

Phytopthora in aardappelen gaat steeds meer telers en adviseurs zorgen baren: in steeds meer percelen in Nederland duikt de schimmelziekte op.

In a dispute around the process for the establishment of potato contracts between potato growers and processors, a decision has been reached by the Natural Products Appeals Tribunal. The decision provides a unique insight in the negotiation process o...

AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy said today that diseased potatoes had the potential to threaten the viability of the entire Australian potato industry if the Australian Federal Government allows potatoes to be imported for processing from New Zealand.

In Manitoba, harvest of processing potatoes is underway.

In the wake of anticipated fear of acute shortage of potato crop in Pakistan as a consequence of devastation of its large quantity in potato growing areas of Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) province, first consignment of Indian potato, comprising 20 to 25 truc...

Praktijkonderzoek Plant & Omgeving, onderdeel van Wageningen UR, en de Nederlandse Aardappel Organisatie organiseren op 1 september 2010 de negende Aardappeldemodag.

The latest genetically modified crops being trialled in Europe are open to public at the Uplingen Plant Science Garden in east Germany. Potatoes that fend off blight without the aid of pesticides, sugar beet capable of withstanding a dose of glyphosate...

Después de dos años difíciles y con un exceso de volumen, la UNPT (Unión Nacional de Agricultores de papa) y el CNIPT (Centro Nacional Interprofesional de la Pomme de Terre) estiman que la producción de papa disminuirá en forma pronunciada en Francia y...

De inkoopprijs van voorgebakken frites gaat naar verwachting stijgen. Cafetaria’s zullen er niet aan ontkomen hun gasten ook een hogere prijs in rekening te brengen, zegt sectorvoorzitter Jos van Alphen.De aardappeloogst wordt door de droge en warme z...

USDA reported that North Dakota planted 90,000 acres to potatoes in 2010, an 8000 acre increase compared to last year.