Potato News from Greece

New potato crop in Greece coming up shortly
December 10, 2019

New potato crop in Greece coming up shortly

The 2019 season for Greek potatoes was very good, but they are already getting ready for the new crop.
Fokeon Gaia: a new Greek Potato and Onion brand launches this year
May 07, 2018

Fokeon Gaia: a new Greek Potato and Onion brand launches this year

After supplying potatoes for processing for 20 years, Yiannis Stavrou said that his company started to think about entering into the table potato market. From this, a new fresh potato and onion brand was born: Fokeon Gaia
Low prices, a difficulty for Greek potato producers
April 24, 2016

Low prices of imported potatoes haunt Greek potato producers

Greek potato producers, who can grow potatoes almost year round thanks to the country's favourable climatic conditions, see their sales drop due to import of cheap product from third countries such as Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia.
March 19, 2012

La “revolución de la papa”, respuesta a la crisis en Grecia

Un ejemplo más de que las crisis son oportunidades. Los agricultores griegos de la península del Peloponeso han empezado a vender sus productos así: del campo, al camión y del camión a un barrio hambriento a las afueras de Atenas. Venta directa sin i...
March 19, 2012

Greek 'potato movement' links shoppers and farmers

There's some dispute about where and when it all started, but Christos Kamenides, genial professor of agricultural marketing at the University of Thessaloniki, is pretty confident he and his students have made sure 'the potato movement' is not about to stop any time soon.

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