Aardappelketen

Video: 140 aardappelrassen werden tentoongespreid tijdens de HZPC Potato Days 2007 in Joure. Ytzen van der Werff licht 2 bijzondere rassen (Scarlet, VDW 00-4) nader toe.

Production of fall potatoes for 2007 is forecast at 408 million cwt, up 2 percent from last year. Area harvested, at 997,800 acres, is virtually unchanged from the July estimate but 2 percent above last year.The average yield is forecast at 409 cwt pe...

The British Potato Council’s provisional estimate of Total Potato Production in Great Britain for the 2007 crop year is 5.446 million tons, down 1% from 2006. The current crop has a planted area that is 3% higher than last year, but average yields per ...

De phytophthoraresistente consumptieaardappel Toluca van handelshuis Agrico komt een dezer dagen op de Europese rassenlijst. Dat betekent dat het ras mag worden verhandeld. Agrico zet het ras in de schijnwerpers op haar rassententoonstelling die van...

BASF, the world's largest chemical maker, is weeks away from challenging European resistance to genetically modified plants with a potato that it hopes will reap profit and produce share gains along with other bioengineered crops. The BASF Amflora pota...

TVP informs, Polish farmers had high potato harvest in 2007. However, there have been no reasons for joy yet, because potato prices are still extremely low. The wholesale prices decline lower than $0.08-0.12/kg;at the same period of time past year the ...

Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner today announced that USDA provided more than $234 million to help market American farm products overseas in the 2007 fiscal year that ended Sept 30.   The allocations were provided under the Market Access Progr...

La Agencia Canadiense de Inspección de Alimentos anunció que se ha confirmado la presencia de verruga de la papa en un campo en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo.

La producción de "Pataca de Galicia"de 2007, que se comercializa por primera vez como Indicación Geográfica Protegida (IGP), es de siete millones de kilogramos, totalmente insuficiente para la demanda de este producto, sobre todo en Madrid y ...

In the Philippines, potato is consumed as a vegetable and occasionally as a snack item. It is ideally cooked with meat, often as a meat extender in recipes such as “adobo,” “egado,” curry, and “lumpia.” There are about 12 Philippine companies that prod...

The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board and the Honourable David Emerson, Minister of International Trade today welcomed the conclusion of an arrangement to facilitate bilateral trade i...

Halting the collapse of potato production in the largest spud producing country in the world has led to a prestigious award for Sam Asiedu. This Canadian scientist from Truro was one of 50 scientists from 20 countries to be awarded the Friendship Award...

This paper reports on how the Papa Andina Regional Initiative is promoting the use of collective action to reduce poverty in the Andes, by developing market niches and adding value to potatoes, particularly the native potatoes grown by poor farmers.

Woensdagmiddag 24 oktober is de vijfde koelboot met 3600 ton consumptieaardappelen vertrokken van Vlissingen naar Mostaganem in Algerije.

New varieties of potatoes bred at SCRI, including Mayan Gold and Inca Sun, have better flavour than their more common relatives, thanks to their umami. Although perhaps not widely known, umami, from the Japanese word for delicious, is one of the five...

,,Een goede weergave van de markt", vindt directeur Dick Zelhorst van Aviko Potato van de eerste notering dit seizoen van aardappelen aan de wekelijkse landbouwbeurs in Emmeloord.Fritesgeschikte aardappelen leverden per 100 kilo maximaal 9,25 euro...

Als de graanprijzen hoog blijven, komt het aardappel­areaal volgend jaar onder druk te staan. Dat verwacht Peter Pals, sectormanager akker- en tuinbouw van de Rabobank. "Zo'n 80 procent van het aardappelareaal ligt op de gespecialiseerde akkerbo...

The deal: The value of the state's potato crop hit a record $562 million last year and could beat that record for the just-harvested 2007 crop. This year and last, the state's potato growers seem to be hitting the marks perfectly in terms of global ...