News on The Potato Supply Chain

El Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas IIB de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, en colaboración con INTA Balcarce, estudia cómo aumentar los polifenoles saludables en la papa, a fin de prevenir enfermedades complejas como cáncer o diabetes.

Andrew Williams of root crop specialists Home Farm, Nacton, near Ipswich, reckons the business will be reducing its potato planted acreage this season by about 10 per cent.

Bayer CropScience announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Dow AgroSciences (DAS) based upon DAS's unauthorized use of Bayer patents related to gluf...

Estimados amigos de la papa: Se acerca el próximo Congreso de ALAP en Uberlandia, Brasil (17 al 20 de septiembre próximos) y deseamos contribuir con información actualizada sobre variedades de papa en America Latina. Por tal razón, le solicitamos se t...

XXV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), Uberlândia, Brasil, 17-20 de sept. de 2012 La Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP) y el XIII Encontro Nacional de Produção e Abastecimiento de Batata 2012 (ENB) abordan como te...

Haciendo realidad el compromiso que el gobernador Marcos Díaz Orellana asumió con los productores de papa del páramo que el año pasado perdieron sus cosechas.

For the first time, leading potato supplier Greenvale AP is making a limited amount of its seed potato variety, the Vales Sovereign, available on the open market to Scottish potato farmers. 

Food fibres are considered as beneficial for our immune system. However ‘considered’ is not good enough;the European guard dog EFSA needs sound scientific evidence based on effects on healthy human people before health claims for these compounds are ap...

Scottish arable farmers who have up until now had a range of pesticides to deal with crop disease and pest problems now have greatly reduced resources as a result of European Union legislation.

Luego de que la Región del Mayo fuera una de las más afectadas por las heladas del año pasado sobre todo en el cultivo de papa.

Mozambique’s Agricultural Development Fund (FDA) plans to make efforts to store seed potatoes as the government has set a target to stop importing the product by 2013, the Fund’s chairman said.

The nutritional value of potatoes will take center stage during the upcoming Washington-Oregon Potato Conference.

A potato disease that arrived late this summer in the Pacific Northwest called zebra chip likely can't be spread by planting infected seed, new research suggests.

France must be able to keep its position as EU’ largest potatoes exporter. This year the country will have to market over one million tons of potatoes.

Los agricultores canarios advierten de que los cultivos de secano –los que dependen expresamente de la lluvia para su riego– peligran si persiste la sequía en las próximas tres semanas.

Few people know better than Greg Jones how important it is to sort and grade potatoes accurately and quickly.

Although other parts of the potato industry are in the doldrums, with lower returns than last year and much higher rejection percentages on account of the wet summer and lifting season, Scottish seed potato growers are busy exporting.

De schattingen voor de Britse aardappelproductie in het seizoen 2011/12 zijn naar beneden bijgesteld