Potato News

Indian Potato chip, fries and flake manufacturers have urged the government to waive the 30% import duty on potato to improve supplies and check soaring prices at home.

Farm Frites Poland (FFP) is operating its French Fry Factory for 20 years. Hence the company is celebrating! FFP has prepared an special website with the highlights of these 20 years. PotatoPro made a selection to whet your appetite...

The market for Prince Edward Island potatoes is holding strong despite the recent reports from six Atlantic Canadian locations of needles found in potato shipments from an Island grower.

A multi-state research effort led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research to control the potato psyllid and reduce losses from zebra chip disease of potato will be recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Eric Halverson is the new chief executive officer of potato grower-shipper Black Gold Farms.

According to a news item in Freshplaza,the German company Lorenz Snackworld is planning to build a potato processing plant in the Tula region (Russia)

The Simplot potato processing plant in Nampa will again stay open longer than anticipated.

Gloria Bobo García, doctora por la Universidad Pública de Navarra (España), ha buscado alternativas al uso de sulfitos para evitar el pardeamiento de estos alimentos.

Farmers and cold storage owners in India (Agra, UP) have lauded the decision to lift the ban on import of seed potatoes.

Robert Tominaga, president of Heyburn, Idaho-based Southwind Farms, has seen demand for the fingerlings his company grows and other specialties rise dramatically in recent years.

McCain Foods (Canada) is voluntarily recalling McCain brand Hashbrowns from the marketplace due to possible plastic contamination

Starch Europe (formerly AAF, Association des Amidonniers et Féculiers) announced its support for the European Commission’s Communication for a European Industrial Renaissance at an event held in Brussels October 15.

Maureen Storey, PhD, president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE) today announced the formation of the APRE President’s Circle, a new membership category designed to strengthen industry value chain collaboration

Plans are underway to construct an Irish potato processing plant in Musanze District to cut down post-harvest losses, Tony Nsanganira, the State Minister for Agriculture, has said.

Rwanda potato farmers have decried the low farm-gate prices currently being offered by dealers.

Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Division is investigating how an employee at Oregon Potato Co. in Boardman severed four fingers on her right hand in a workplace accident

The Snack Food Association (SFA) will participate in the PACK EXPO Partner Program November 2-5, 2014 at McCormick Place in Chicago, SFA President & CEO Tom Dempsey announced.

The winner of the Lay's Canada 2014 Do Us a Flavour contest is Jalapeño Mac N' Cheese on Lay's Wavy, submitted by Randall Litman from Calgary.