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Sensor-based sorting system designer and manufacturer TOMRA Sorting Solutions has announced the appointment of Volker Rehrmann as its new head.

Victorian potato growers will face fewer quarantine restrictions when selling their potatoes interstate.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 201.8 points in August 2013, nearly 4 points (1.9 percent) below its July value and 11 points (or 5.1 percent) less than in August 2012. Last month’s decline was the fourth in a row.

The European Union has granted Lebanon the right to export 50,000 tons of potatoes, reversing a decadelong export prohibition, the Lebanese Agriculture Ministry said Monday.

Ben Stein - Actor, Author, Economist, and Pop Culture Icon - will be headlining the Potato Expo 2014 in Texas.

Sensor-based sorting systems pioneer TOMRA Sorting Solutions will showcase its whole potato capabilities at potato industry event Potato Europe.

Investigadores de Inia trabajan para crear variedades de trigo y papa que se adapten al cambio climático. En total 380 genotipos de trigo y más de 200 genotipos de papa han sido evaluados para ver su tolerancia a la sequía y las altas temperaturas.

Snacks maker Frito Lay has been fined almost 18 million Turkish Liras (8.8 million USD) by Turkey’s competition board over single-product loyalty discount allegations.

La empresa Oficinas para el estudio del agro (OFIAGRO) acaba de publicar un informe que describe la situación de las familias que cultivan papa en una de las regiones más importantes del Ecuador.

This week, Breeders Trust successfully reached an agreement with eight Italian agricultural cooperatives and producers that propagated potato varieties and marketed these as officially certified seed potatoes, without permission of the variety owner.

To advance its position as one of the nation's premier natural snack food brands, Boulder Canyon™ Natural Foods has introduced two new varieties of its Canyon Cut line of kettle-cooked, ridged potato chips that appear in grocery stores this month.

Machinery manufacturer Tong Peal has announced a brand new machinery finishing process, as part of continued efforts to provide farmers and growers with the highest quality custom handling equipment.

Potato production in Bangladesh in fiscal year (FY) 2012-13 hit a new record of 8.603 million tonnes surpassing the past record of 8.38 million tonnes in FY'11.

Total US potato and product exports for FY13 (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013) increased 4 percent in value to $1,639,911,793 and also rose 4 percent in volume to 1,561,896 metric tons (MT)--both record levels.

El Ministerio de Agricultura, a través del Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, SAG, aumentó la vigilancia fitosanitaria y la fiscalización con el objetivo controlar la dispersión de la Marchitez Bacteriana, plaga cuarentenaria que afecta al cultivo de la papa.

La Consejería de Agricultura ha editado un nuevo boletín informativo que recoge la situación del sector en Europa, en España, y en la Comunidad, ante el inicio de la campaña de arranque.

Si existiera un sello de origen para la papa y muchos otros productos, los consumidores podrían tener un elemento de juicio adicional para decidir su compra.

La firma El Parque Papas, de la localidad bonaerense de Otamendi, produce anualmente más de 30.000 toneladas de papa utilizando agricultura de precisión, y es una de las líderes en su rubro.