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A trial of genetically modified potatoes which was vandalised last year has restarted, the Yorkshire Post can reveal.The Leeds University trial aims to grow potatoes which are resistant to a microscopic worm which stunts their growth and costs British ...

More than 80 jobs will go after potato trading company MBMG went into administration.Ian Carr and Malcolm Shierson of Grant Thornton were appointed joint administrators to the company, which has its headquarters in March, Cambridgeshire, and employs ab...

La Papa Criolla es originaria de la zona andina de Colombia y Ecuador y en estas zonas, se encuentra la mayor variabilidad de la especie tuberífera. El presente documento hace referencia a las tecnologías de manejo del cultivo de la Papa Criolla con de...

>In its July board of directors meeting, United Potato Growers of America announced that both fall and annual potato acreage is virtually unchanged from last year. This assessment is based upon data from the United States Department of Agriculture a...

En diciembre de 2006, la ciudad ordenó que las grasas trans fueran eliminadas paulatinamente de la comida de restaurantes, y la prohibición entro en pleno efecto para noviembre de 2008. Silver y sus colaboradores del Departamento de Salud e Higiene Men...

Collaboration among the Washington State Potato Commission, federal research labs and three Northwest universities has resulted in the award of over $2 million in USDA grant funds targeted for research to improve pest management in potato fields.WSPC D...

El grupo semillero alemán KWS continúa aumentando su programa de inversiones en Argentina a través de su filial KWS Argentina SA. Esta vez la apuesta está dirigida al cultivo emblemático de esta región como lo es la papa. Sabido es que la actividad ag...

As anyone who has traveled throughout central Washington knows, potatoes are one of the most planted crops in the region.   In fact, more than 50 percent of the potatoes in the U.S. are grown in the Pacific Northwest and 23 percent of the nation’s pot...

Southern Idaho potato growers filed a request with the United States Department of Justice on Friday seeking an investigation into allegations that ConAgra violated anti-trust laws.The Idaho Office of the Attorney General confirmed that it relieved, si...

A tale from history offers us a prediction about the future of food.The wonder crop is new and unfamiliar, lauded by scientists and politicians as having the potential to end famine and feed the poor. But the public is skeptical, regarding this new fo...

The preliminary 2009 area planted to potatoes for Canada was estimated at 378,400 acres (153 138 hectares), down less than 1 percent from 2008. Despite little change nationally, the area planted varied widely by province.Farmers in Newfoundland and L...

Uit het overzicht van de aardappelverwerking van juni 2009 (bron Produktschap Akkerbouw) blijkt dat de verwerkers wederom op volle toeren hebben gedraaid. Maar liefst 295.300 ton aardappelen zijn verwerkt tot consumptieproducten, ruim 20.000 ton meer ...

In Angola, at least 10,000 tons of potato are expected to be produced within Matala irrigated perimeter by local farmers, as a result of the first season of the process of diversification of crops being carried out by the Local Development Socicety (SO...

What sort of bounty could possibly lie in piles of discarded potato peelings?“We have been interested in by-products for quite a while now,” says Dr Nigel Brunton, a senior research officer with Teagasc who works with phytochemicals derived from plants...

The UK government has unveiled plans to cut carbon emissions in a bid to tackle climate change.The Low Carbon Transition Plan calls on farming to reduce emissions to 6% lower than the level predicted for 2020.It suggests this should be done through an ...

U.S. growers planted a few more potatoes this year, but industry officials and shippers aren’t overly worried about slumping markets. About 933,000 acres of fall potatoes were planted this year, up from 931,000 acres in 2008, according to a July 10 ac...

The weather is being blamed for two cases of late blight found this week in P.E.I. potato fields. "It wasn't completely unexpected,"Brian Beaton, the potato co-ordinator with the P.E.I. Department of Agriculture told CBC News on Wednesday. &...

Se ha culpado al clima por la aparición de dos casos de tizón tardío en cultivos de papa de la isla. "Es algo totalmente inesperado", dijo a CBC News Brian Beaton, coordinador del Ministerio de Agricultura en aspectos relacionados con la pa...