Potato News

Facing an uptick in child obesity, Chile is cracking down on the happy meal. A new law in Chile aims to take some of the fun out of fast-food by forcing McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other restaurants to stop including toys and other goodies with ch...

Water abstraction reform is high on the list of challenges the NFU’s Potato Forum will tackle in the next year.

Potato growers could achieve potential savings of more than €450/ha if they used a blight-resistant genetically modified (GM) potato variety instead of a conventional variety.

Ireland's environmental protection agency has approved the first trial of a genetically modified potato crop.

Idaho Falls, Idaho-based Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC has taken on potato sales and marketing responsibilities for Worley &McCullough Inc., a grower-shipper in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

According to a report from Michigan State University, Botrytis blight is causing problems in potatoes throughout Michigan this season.

Standen-Pearson potato harvester developments continue at a fast pace, with new technology and new machines being introduced due to increasing demand from UK and export markets.

Medipo Agras in the Czech Republic, are potato packers who have recently replaced their old Herbert line with a larger intake grading system.

In August 2002, after many years of cultivation, Potandon Produce L.L.C. introduced the US retail community to its Klondike Rose potato, the first of many new varieties of fresh potatoes that would soon follow.

The problem of glut of potatoes causing heavy losses to farmers can now be reduced drastically as the Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET) has standardized a technology for using any quality potatoes for the production of cattle feed of high nutritional value.

Climate change could result in a positive outcome for the potato industry and possibly lead to potatoes becoming one of the top staple crops in the world

El pasado 1 de Junio del 2012 el Gobierno Peruano aprobo por Decreto Supremo 006-2012-AG el Nuevo Reglamento General de Semillas. El nuevo reglamento de semillas marca un hito para la actividad semillera, al reconocer la existencia de los sistemas tra...

Con el objetivo de brindar la posibilidad a sus clientes de seguir disfrutando del rico sabor de sus hojuelas de papa 100% peruana e innovar en mecánicas promocionales, Lay´s, marca de la familia PepsiCo, a través de Lay´s Peruanísimas, en alianza con...

La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) dio su visto bueno para las pruebas de una papa genéticamente modificada (GM) que es resistente al tizón de la papa. En los próximos cuatro años se sembrarán en Irlanda dos hectáreas con esta papa genéticament...

El lunes 30 de julio, el proyecto IssAndes participó en el foro de políticas públicas e iniciativas privadas organizado en el marco de la Ruta de Aprendizaje Intercontinental por el proyecto Desarrollo Territorial Rural con Identidad Cultural de RIMISP...

Por si pensábamos que quedaban cosas por inventar... y más en vending, donde se ha demostrado que la industria es más que innovadora, la preparación de platos in-situ se está extendiendo. Como plato principal o como acompañante, el puré de papas es a...

A propósito del XXV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), a realizarse en Uberlândia, Brasil, entre el 17-20 de septiembre de 2012, se ha creído conveniente establecer un mecanismo que facilite la búsqueda de ponencias y presenta...

Potato breeder Rich Novy says growers shouldn't read too much into the fact that a promising new variety he helped develop, Palisade Russet, hasn't made it into many fields yet.