Potato News

Profits have fallen by more than £10m at McCain Foods GB after Britain's market-leading frozen chip maker was hit by a severe shortage of quality potatoes in the UK as a direct result of the extreme weather conditions in the 2012 growing season.

Europe's second-highest court on Friday overturned a decision by the European Commission to allow the cultivation and sale of a genetically modified potato developed by German chemicals group BASF.

McDonald's is being sucked into the vortex of bickering and conspiracy theories that has, unfortunately, become the debate over genetically engineered food products.

La Plataforma de negocios de poscosecha es un portal con información, documentación y promoción de ventas en la industria hortícola. Acaba de publicar un reporte con información de equipos y materiales para producción y poscosecha de papa.

The Members' Council of AVEBE has appointed Henk van Dalen (61) and Peter Poortinga (52) as members of AVEBE's Supervisory Board.

El día 28 de Noviembre del presente, se realizó en la ciudad de Ipiales (Nariño), un taller donde se mostraron algunos de los posibles impactos del cambio climático (CC), en la agricultura de pequeña escala de la región.

Representantes del CIP y de varias organizaciones se reunieron en Cusco para definir el proceso de elaboracio?n de un DVD interactivo orientado a la conservacio?n de los recursos gene?ticos de las comunidades.

En 11 años, el Centro de Investigaciones, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Escuela Militar de Ingeniería (EMI) ha trabajado en más de 30 especies, entre flores y tubérculos.

Corn oil significantly reduces cholesterol with more favorable changes in total cholesterol (TC) and LDL-C than extra virgin olive oil, new research shows.

Iniciativa productiva que nace por voluntad del presidente Rafael Correa cuando el año pasado afirmó que se debería trabajar para que toda la producción del Ecuador, tanto agrícola y pecuaria, tuviera genética de calidad y semillas certificadas.

The AVEBE potato starch concern has reached a new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) with the trade unions.

Según Fedepapa, gremio que agrupa a la mayor parte de los productores de papa en Colombia, los insectos plaga de mayor importancia económica que atacan al tubérculo son la Polilla Guatemalteca, la Palomilla y el Gusano Blanco.

WILD Flavors, Inc. (WILD) has acquired Alfrebro, LLC, a leading manufacturer of natural extracts and aroma chemicals, advanced proprietary technologies, and expanded processing capabilities.

Red Emma, Blue Elise, Pink fir apple and Sieglinde: The Austrian association "Arche Noah"together with supermarket chain Spar are working towards providing selections of rare potato varieties.

Owners of an old carpet factory in Devonport (Tasmania) have held informal talks with the Devonport City Council about a conversion to a potato processing factory.

Even though farmers in Koraput district have decided to take up potato farming in wake of the recent potato crisis, there are not enough stock of potato seeds in the district.

As part of the zero-waste commitment for its manufacturing operation, PepsiCo's agriculture team in Turkey invested in anaerobic digestion technology several years ago to handle the organic waste created there.

Russia is a huge producer of potatoes and is the third largest potato producer in the world. In 2012, Russia produced 29.5 million metric tons of potatoes. Only 13% is produced by agricultural enterprises: 79% is produced by private households.