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A más de dos meses de la primera gran venta anual -y poco después, la mágica evaporación- de la papa, este año en los agros de La Habana vuelve por segunda vez el preciadísimo tubérculo a poner a correr a más de una familia.

HZPC Holland B.V., a leading potato breeding company sets the final price for harvest 2015 for its Dutch seed potato pool at € 30,28 per 100 kilo.

Kenya is set to launch new varieties of potatoes that will boost quality and yield.

HZPC Holland bv, wereldleider in aardappelveredeling, stelt de definitieve uitbetalingsprijs voor zijn Nederlandse pootaardappel-pool over Oogst 2015 vast op € 30,28 per 100 kilo.

In the United States, the 13 major potato producing states held 52.2 million cwt of potatoes in storage June 1, 2016, down 7 percent from June 1, 2015.

Lack of rain has left potato growers of Hassan - a district in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka in distress.

The Daily Mail Australia reports that Pringles chips - sold in cardboard cylinders - have shrunk in size in Australia and are being sold in a deceptively similar package of the same height but with a smaller diameter.

A former executive with a Pennsylvania potato chip and snack food company and a vendor have been charged and agreed to plead guilty to defrauding the company out of roughly $1.4 million.

A fire broke out at the Olde York Potato Chips plant in Brampton, Ontario early Friday morning (June 17).

Potato growers in Tanzania stand to benefit from a new agreement between Netherlands and Tanzania, targeting to help farmers in the country boost the tubers production as well as being provided with potential market outlets abroad.

Para garantizar el abastecimiento de este importante rubro agrícola, la Federación Nacional de Productores de Papa y Hortalizas (Fenaphort) entregará un documento a Agropatria y a los ministerios con competencia alimentaria para pedir autorización e importar las semillas.

For years, PEI potato farmer Robert Green has been growing barley and canola in rotation with potatoes. This season, he’s decided to try something new.

Late blight is a potentially destructive disease of potato and tomato crops worldwide that can result in significant losses if detected too late, diagnosed incorrectly, or if not treated properly.

Hace cinco meses la noticia de que la NASA estudia sembrar papas en Marte sorprendía al mundo. Pero lo que no se dijo en esa ocasión es que uno de los científicos que forma parte del equipo que trabaja en ese proyecto, Juan Carlos Chávez, es un diseñador industrial venezolano, que emigró a tierras peruanas hace casi dos años.

The University of Southern Denmark is developing an ecodrone that will combat pests in completely new ways.

Since the start of 2016, potato prices in the United Kingdom have risen more steeply than at any other period since 2000.

In the German Pfalz region, farmers officially kicked off the harvest of the first German new potatoes. A former soccer player on the national team, Hans-Peter Briegel, was named Pfalz potato ambassador for the season 2016/17.

Although potato cultivation in Guinea is still very limited, production is expanding, just as in many other African countries.