News on Potato Stats, Trade, Prices

Durante la última campaña agrícola 2010 – 2011, la superficie sembrada de papa alcanzó las 303,282 hectáreas que produjeron cuatro millones de toneladas en 19 regiones, generando aproximadamente 110 mil puestos de trabajo permanentes y 32 millones de j...

La decisión de Brasil de suspender las licencias automáticas de importación para una decena de productos perecederos, –entre ellos, manzanas, trigo, uvas pasas y papas– encendió una luz de alerta en las principales empresas productoras de papas congela...

British farmers are warning of possible price rises and even food shortages after admitting they are struggling to cope with some of the wettest Springs in history.

The Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE), one of China's two agricultural commodities exchanges, is considering introducing potato futures trading among a raft of new agricultural contracts set to launch later this year.

The government may be pressing the panic buttons due to spiralling food prices, but it failed to read the writing on the wall five months ago when thousands of farmers across Haryana, Punjab and UP set ablaze hundreds of tonnes of potatoes on the streets to protest low prices and mounting losses due to a glut.

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) continues to expand its global reach, with a new international office serving Latin America launched in March 2012 and plans for a South Korea office to open this fall. The new offices join the IPC’s existing roster o...

Pakistani potato growers and farmers have been suffering colossal financial losses in the face of halt to export and lack of subsidies by the government to help them overcome their miseries.

El gobierno de Bolivia declaró la suficiencia de la producción nacional de papa y restringió mediante decreto la importación del tubérculo hasta agosto de 2012.

The United States Potato Board (USPB) led a trade mission of US seed potato growers and shippers to Egypt the first week of April.

Lotte Mart, with 93 stores nationwide (the 3rd largest retail group in Korea), started to sell US fresh table-stock potatoes in all stores on April 20, announcing the new product in their in-house paper and in their newspaper ads.

El Gobierno venezolano prometió este lunes a sus agricultores que prohibirá la importación de papa ecuatoriana para proteger su producción nacional. Esto, porque productores de ese país señalaron que la papa ecuatoriana se vende por debajo del precio d...

De Belgapomprijs is de meest gehanteerde prijs, waargenomen op de vorige werkdag voor Bintje, voor verwerking tot diepgevroren aardappelproducten , veldgewas 35 mm+, frietgeschikt, af producent, los op wagen, voor onmiddellijke levering/ophaling. Voor...

The 13 major potato States held 116 million cwt of potatoes in storage April 1, 2012, up 4 percent from a year ago. Potatoes in storage accounted for 30 percent of the 2011 fall storage States' production, one percentage point below April 1, 2011.

La ministra de Desarrollo Productivo y Economía Plural, Teresa Morales Olivera, anunció este sábado que analizan la emisión de un Decreto Supremo que prohibirá la internación de papa procedente del Perú, debido, principalmente, a que el país ha logrado...

Potatoes South Africa (PSA) has recently turned to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, as well as the Minister of Trade & Industry, in order to address the influx of frozen French fries into South Africa.

With potato prices at Rs 20 a kg in retail in the domestic market, traders from northern India have started to import Pakistani potatoes that are 20% to 40% cheaper.

With potato prices ruling at Rs 20 a kg in retail in the domestic market, traders from Jammu and Kashmir have started importing potato from the two Line of Control (LOC) trade posts of Srinagar and Poonch.

After plummeting to a record low two months back, the retail price of potatoes has risen sharply due to lower supplies.