Aardappelketen

The chair of the P.E.I. potato processing committee says growers are content to have reached a deal with Cavendish Farms for this year.Scott Howatt said Thursday growers accepted the first offer as they face what appears to be another difficult year.“W...

In France, on the Island of Noirmoutier, they figured it out: they created a niche market for a specifically grown premier potato so exclusive that the potato ended up on this obscure list of the most expensive foods in the world: Voila, La Bonnotte.

Potato growers in the South of England are being warned that this weekend could see the season’s first major threat of intense potato blight pressure.Syngenta BlightCAST is predicting ‘near-miss’ Smith Periods right through Friday, Saturday and into Su...

Torrential rains that nearly destroyed north Florida’s potato crop shouldn’t seriously disrupt the U.S. spring potato deal. A week of late May heavy rains flooded fields with 27 inches of rain and destroyed up to 70% of the deal’s potatoes. Tony Rusko...

Columbia/Okura’s A-Series robotic palletizers provide the ideal solution for the demands of today’s high capacity potato packers. They use an end effector ('robot hand') designed specifically to handle the inconsistency of potato bags,.

SCRI is leading an international project to help potato farmers in Kenya.The mission is being supported with a grant from the Monsanto Fund totalling £186,000. The ambition is to increase potato yields - and importantly Kenyan farmer's incomes.

De export van consumptie- en industrieaardappelen kwam in de maand april 2009 (bron NAO) uit op 73.300 ton. Dat is fors minder dan in de aprilmaand van vorig jaar toen het exportcijfer bijna 100.000 ton bedroeg. In april 2007 kwam het exportcijfer zelf...

FSANZ says the majority of Australian adults are not exceeding its recommended maximum daily salt intake, following media reports that claim some Australians could be consuming 40g of salt a day – almost seven times the recommended max.Salt (sodium chl...

Where would we be without the humble potato? It has a place in starters, mains, sides and even desserts. Emma White spoke to chefs and food service heads for their recipe recommendations When it comes to versatile ingredients, the potato has to be clo...

A week of heavy rains has caused what one Putnam County potato grower called a tri-county disaster."We had 13 inches of rain by noon Wednesday,"said Crescent City grower Joey Froehlich."It's a disaster - it's too wet and I think people w...

Presentación en PowerPoint del Ing. Agr. MSc. Mariano Inchausti (70 diapositivas) con información gráfica de mucha utilidad (2008).

Tesco last night insisted it was the world's "biggest supporter"of Irish food and drink producers after a group of farmers stormed a meeting of the supermarket chain's top managers yesterday.Around 30 potato growers burst into a meeting at a ...

Up to 17 jobs could go following the announcement that Greenvale Foods will be shutting its potato processing plant in Wisbech by June 14.Some of the equipment and current orders will be transferred to the company's factory in Telford.A spokesman for G...

Romanian Minister of Agriculture Ilie Sarbu has received on Monday the official visit of Canada Senate’s delegation headed by Chairman Noel Kinsella, the main discussed topics being the strengthening of the bilateral cooperation relations between the ...

There is something about the Greenlandic earth that is preventing fungus diseases like mould from attacking and destroying Greenlandic potatoes. This has piqued the interest of Danish researchers, reports Politiken Søndag newspaper. ‘If we can identif...

The 13 major US potato States held 115 million cwt of potatoes in storage April 1, 2009, down 9 percent from a year ago and 5 percent below April 1, 2007. Potatoes in storage accounted for 31 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production, slight...

"We really don't know much about it. It is a very new pest here."Terry Olsen - Horticulture New Zealand's Potato Group chairman on the potato psyllid.The jury is still out on the impact the pest, the potato psyllid, will have on crop yields.T...

Dos nuevos materiales de papa producidos por el Centro Internacional de este tubérculo y que no habían tenido mucha acogida en el país fueron rescatados por algunos agricultores de la Sierra, quienes han encontrado una solución para que la industria de...