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Social impact investor and project developer AGDEVCO has invested in a US$4.5 million partnership with Saise Farming Enterprises Limited (SFEL) to produce potato seed for smallholder farmers in Northern Province of Zambia.

Potato blight changed Europe and America, and led to widespread deaths and mass emigration. And we’re not rid of it yet. But where did it come from?

La Asociación de Exportadores del Perú informó que Bolivia es el principal mercado para la producción de papa. Ingenieros agrónomos bolivianos dicen que hay déficit de producción cebollas y tomates.

Potato farmers in Nyabihu district in Rwanda are at crossroads after a factory recently built in their region has failed to buy all their potatoes.

PJ Lee and Sons please with potato store built by Thurlow Nunn Standen LTD and the fitted Omnivent suction and blowing ventilation system and OmniCuro automated control systems.

A fire has caused significant damage at the Meade Potato Company in Lobinstown, Navan, Co. Meath in Ireland

Alimentos y Regiones, un programa de televisión muy popular en el país, acaba de producir un video con estadísticas muy interesantes del cultivo.

Reportaje de la agencia china de noticias CCTV que muestra cómo el gobierno de la provincia de Xiji estimula el cultivo de la papa como una estrategia para aliviar la pobreza de sus habitantes.

Históricamente Cañete ha estado vinculada a la producción de papas de gran calidad, logrando ejemplares de características organolépticas incomparables y reconocidas a nivel nacional por los propios consumidores. Conservar estas propiedades de origen, es el objetivo de un convenio firmado entre el INIA y el SAG, a través del cual se dará vida al “Taller de formación de líderes en producción de semillas de papas”, actividad de ochos sesiones y una gira técnica que se desarrollarán hasta diciembre del presente año.

The University of Idaho is leading a $3.2 million project to combat microscopic worms (nematodes) that threaten potato production.

The first common event of Freshfel Europe & Europatat took place this week: “Doing something good to yourself and to others will be the driver for the purchasing decision of fresh-produce customers”, concluded the associations.

For Belgian potato traders, Sweden is a small, but admittedly growing market. In late April, the potential for Belgian fresh and processed potato exports was further explored.

National vegetable industry body AUSVEG is concerned that Australian potato growers will be left out of pocket following Australia’s largest potato supplier entering receivership in early May.

Greg Donald, manager of the Prince Edward Island Potato Board, estimated Wednesday that between 65 and 75 per cent of the Island’s 2016 potato crop would be in the ground

Europatat appoints a new board, including Jos Muyshondt as President, Domenico Citterio as vice-president and Gilles Fontaine as treasurer.

Un trágico saldo de una persona fallecida y 19 más intoxicadas, dejó el uso irresponsable de un fungicida sobre un cultivo de papa, en la vereda San Rafael, del municipio de La Calera, cerca de Bogotá, durante la noche de este miércoles, informaron miembros del cuerpo de bomberos de Cundinamarca.

On Fiji, planting season for potatoes has begun in the Western division.

Irresponsible use of fungicide on a potato crop in Colombia left one person dead and 19 intoxicated