Potato News from Belgium

Bruselas aprueba un plan búlgaro de 29 millones de euros para ayudar a ganaderos y productores de patatas afectados por el coronavirus.

August 31, 2020

Bruselas aprueba plan búlgaro de ayuda a productores de patatas por el Covid-19

La Comisión Europea ha aprobado un plan búlgaro de aproximadamente 29 millones de euros para ayudar a los agricultores que crían rumiantes grandes y pequeños y a los productores de patatas afectados por el brote de coronavirus.

AVR and DacomFarm Intelligence offer field data on a silver platter

August 28, 2020

Smart potato farming: AVR and Dacom combine field and machine data

Less cultivating equipment required by cleverly combining field and machine data. This data is displayed on the digital platform AVR Connect, offering the farmer improved, real time insights into what is going on inside the machine, how it is operating, and how the process can be made more efficient.

August 27, 2020

Belgian Potato Industry Trade show Interpom postponed till 2021

The Potato Industry Trade Show Interpom that was scheduled later this year in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium) is postponed until November 2021

August 24, 2020

El secreto de las patatas fritas belgas que debes conocer

Responden al nombre de 'frites' – cuidado con llamarlas French fries- y cualquiera que las prueba cae rendido a la sencillez de sus encantos.

The solutions provided by sorting technologies are more necessary now than ever before.

July 20, 2020

Tomra Food Reaches Out to Help Vegetable Processors During Covid-19 Crisis

TOMRA Food is reaching out to vegetable processors everywhere to help them tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 16, 2020

Foldable AVR ridger meets demand for mechanical weed control in potatoes

Respectfully using our soils and cultivating efficiently are key for a sustainable agricultural sector. Both private individuals – who determine demand in supermarkets – and governments are calling for a change of techniques, which is clear from the fact that all manner of chemical crop protection products and weed killers are rapidly and increasingly being prohibited.

July 15, 2020

Tomra Food Publishes New E-Book For Potato Fresh Packers

Free, downloadable publication by TOMRA Food for Potato Fresh Packers addresses challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Flandre Pomme de Terre - Sentinel II - processing line

June 24, 2020

Flandre Pomme de Terre Invests in a Tomra Food Sorter to Keep Pace With its Growth

This is the story of a family farm in the North of France, handed down from father to sons some twenty years ago. Over two decades, the sons have earned a fine reputation in the washed potato business.

June 12, 2020

European potato industry rejects Australian farmers' dumping fears

European potato farmers and processors have pushed back against Australian claims they are about to dump subsidized frozen chips from a coronavirus-caused glut into the Antipodean market.

June 01, 2020

La pesadilla de las patatas fritas en Bélgica

Continúa el drama nacional que supone la falta de consumo de patatas fritas en Bélgica.

May 28, 2020

INTERPOM 2020 on New Trade Show Days

Theme: ‘Let’s connect the potato chain in the post-coronavirus world’. 2020 will go down in history as 'the year of the coronavirus pandemic'.

May 28, 2020

TOMRA Food Appoints Potato Expert to Strengthen Its Global Sales Organization

TOMRA Food has appointed category expert Marco Colombo as Global Category Director Potatoes. In this role, he will strengthen the company’s relationship with the potato industry even further and consolidate its position as a thought leader in the sector.

May 26, 2020

Starch Europe Welcomes the Publication of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy

Starch Europe today welcomed the much-anticipated publication of the European Commission’s EU Farm to Fork Strategy. Starch Europe and its members strongly support the Commission’s climate neutrality ambition and the important role a more sustainable food system plays to achieve that objective.

May 25, 2020

Europatat welcomes the Farm to Fork strategy and calls on the Commission to ensure a coherent and realistic approach

Europatat welcomes the Farm to Fork Strategy published today by the European Commission. There is a need to secure a fair, healthy, and environmentally-friendly food system, a message that the potato sector fully endorses.

May 11, 2020

NEPG hopes that the potato area has reduced with 5 %

The foodservice demand for potato products has dropped with 50 – 60 % and the export markets have lost their potential, so the world-wide potato-processing industry has reduced their capacity and need for raw material. More than 2 million tons will probably not been processed in the NEPG mainland potato countries only.

April 28, 2020

Belgians urged to eat fries twice a week as coronavirus creates massive potato surplus

Belgians are being called upon to eat fries at least twice a week as more than 750,000 tons of potatoes are at risk of being thrown away.

TOMRA Food's Test and Demonstration Centers go Virtual

April 13, 2020

TOMRA Food Test and Demonstration Centers go Virtual

The Covid-19 global pandemic is having a dramatic impact on day-to-day life, both on a personal level and in the way businesses operate. To enable live demonstrations of its sorting solutions, TOMRA Food is leveraging digital technology.

Belgian potato sector grows again in 2019