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In New York City, it was a straightforward suggestion that left a lingering aftertaste in many people’s mouths: The city’s Department of Health and Hygiene exhorted restaurants and food manufacturers and the marketers serving them to reduce sodium cont...

If you've ever eaten an Idaho baked potato, gazed on the beauty of a Shasta daisy or rejoiced when the seed catalogs arrived in the mail before spring, you owe a debt of gratitude to a plant genius, Luther Burbank. The agriculturalist or serious garde...

Key Technology introduces Manta® for frozen potato products. Featuring Vis/IR (visible infrared) cameras and Raptor laser technology along with new, proprietary high intensity LED lighting, high flow ejector valves, and three-way ejection capability, t...

Idaho Potato farmers are going to have to recover from another hail storm on Friday.  And many haven't recovered from the one last week. We finally know just how damaging it was to the eastern Idaho potato crop, and the news is not good.25-thousand acr...

Presentacion en PowerPoint de Lorena Mancero sobre un estudio adelantado con el apoyo de FAO-ESA y el CIP.

El grupo estadounidense de bebidas sin alcohol y de snacks Pepsico anunció el miércoles que se disponía a tomar el 20% del capital del grupo Calbee Foods, primer fabricante japonés de aperitivos, con miras a producir y vender varias marcas de snacks en...

Pepsico Inc. is acquiring a stake in Calbee Foods Co., Japan’s biggest producer of potato chips and shrimp crackers, as part of a push to sell more snacks overseas.PepsiCo, the world’s biggest snack-food maker, said in a statement it will exchange its ...

De twintig grootste retailers ter wereld zijn goed voor een kwart van de totale wereldwijde foodomzet. De gezamenlijke omzet is 1,95 triljoen dollar. Planet Retail zette de twintig grootste foodretailers ter wereld op een rijtje en voorspelt hoe ze er ...

Cavendish Farms, one of North America's leading producers of frozen potato products, unveiled a critical vital new element in their environmental action plan, and a first for the potato industry in North America.

Frito-lay India has decided to set up a state-of-the-art warehouse for storage of potato.“Sourcing chip-grade potatoes remains a challenge. We are establishing a state-of-the-art warehouse, a first in India, near our manufacturing facility in West Beng...

The range of Certis metaldehyde slug pellets, Trigger, Certis Metaldehyde and Certis Red have had their use on potato crops reinstated. Uniquely, the approval permits a harvest interval of just seven days. The news follows the revocation of all metalde...

En el municipio de General Alvarado se inauguró la planta industrial de Conasud. Conosud es una empresa de origen santafesino que elabora escamas de papas y exporta el 50% de su producción a Europa y países como Brasil, Venezuela y Japón. Produce más d...

El Ministerio de Agricultura (Minag) oficializó la realización del XXIV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), a desarrollarse en la ciudad surandina del Cusco del 23 al 28 de mayo de 2010.

Federal representatives joined company officials, members of the community and former Triple Crown jockey winner Ron Turcotte, to celebrate the grand opening of a new packing plant at Saint John River Valley Potato Inc. “Our government is proud to par...

In the August 2009 issue of the international journal Atherosclerosis, University of Illinois emeritus veterinary biosciences professor Fred Kummerow reports for the first time that trans fats interfere with more than one key enzyme in the regulation o...

Farmers in Afghanistan’s top potato-producing province are complaining about declining profits, mainly because of cold weather, lack of storage facilities and bad roads. Potato cultivation in Bamyan Province, central Afghanistan, employs thousands of p...

Idaho Fry Co. co-owner Blake Lingle said Tuesday that he and his business partner met with officials at the Idaho Potato Commission and came to an agreement on a new name for the business. Plans for a naming contest were scrapped in favor of resolving...

Knife peeling gives a very attractive peeling result compared to roller peelers. The potatoes have a hand peeled appearance and, moreover, their smooth exterior keeps them in good, fresh condition for longer. However, for a good peeling result, prepeel...