Potato News

Speciaal voor de Horeca heeft CêlaVíta Foodservice een range lang houdbare aardappelproducten ontwikkeld en daarbij gebruik gemaakt van de expertise van professionele koks. De nieuwe range 'La Menute by CêlaVíta' bevatten echte kant-en-klare aardappele...

El consumo per cápita de productos congelados en Colombia se ubica alrededor de los 700 gramos año aproximadamente, una cifra baja si se compara con otros países como Canadá con 11 kilos o Estados Unidos con 10 kilos. Esto debido a barreras como el des...

After witnessing record low prices for the new crop in the beginning of harvest season this year, a majority of potato farmers in West Bengal now have a reason to cheer. Wholesale prices of the new crop (Jyoti variety), which were ruling at around Rs ...

Ingenieros creadores del bioplástico de almidón de papa, de la Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, comenzaron en febrero de 2011 la caracterización del almidón más óptimo para lograr un bioplástico rentable y duradero que permita su futura industr...

An official with the American Heart Association believes Idaho potato shippers aren't fully tapping the right to use his organization's iconic heart check mark. For a registration fee of $5,000 per variety, the Idaho Potato Commission renewed a 12-mon...

Hungry for more information on how to perfect your potato dishes? Consider your cravings satisfied with the Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) new website Potato 101, an all-you-can-eat buffet of knowledge on America’s Favorite Vegetable. Contents inclu...

New Brunswick potato farmer Henk Tepper strode through the Ottawa International Airport on Saturday afternoon and into the arms of his wife and two daughters for the first time in more than a year. Tepper returned to Canada after being held in a Leban...

The Top 10 Functional Food Trends of 2012 point to more consumers favor getting their vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat and beverages they drink instead of supplements, according to research presented Wednesday at the Institute of Food Tech...

Convenience Food Systems (CFS), a manufacturer of food processing and packaging equipment was sold to the GEA Group in December 2010.

When Burger King set about to fix its ailing empire, the fast food giant started by scrutinizing everything on the menu Over the past year, the QSR chain evaluated all of its ingredients from the bacon to the cheese slices it serves on its chargrilled...

Con la implementación de la tecnología del Sistema Autotrófico Hidropónico (SAH), el cual puede lograr altas tasas de multiplicación en un tiempo más corto, la Asociación de Productores y Comercializadores de Semilla de Papa (Procosepa), del área de Ce...

A Senator says New Brunswick farmer Henk Tepper has been released from a Lebanese jail after being held for a year on allegations he exported rotten potatoes to Algeria. Senator Pierrette Ringuette says in a statement that Tepper is expected to arrive...

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...

First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed children from five schools across the country to join her yesterday for the fourth annual spring planting of the White House Kitchen Garden. During the day, the kids planted five varieties of seed potatoes: Sangre, Pu...

Europatat and the Dutch Potato Association (NAO) are pleased to announce that Guy Faulkner from World Potato Markets and Karlijn Offermans from advertising agency 2 Mèt will join the Europatat Congress as guest speakers during the Europatat Commission ...

El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) junto con otras instituciones esta organizando un curso teorico-practico sobre Evaluación de la tolerancia a factores abióticos que se dictara en Cuzco (Perú) desde el 7 al 10 de Mayo, y al Simposium sobre el m...

Evaluar el impacto de altas temperaturas sobre el rendimiento, calidad y propiedades saludables de papas nativas y comerciales, es uno de los focos centrales que guia el Fondecyt de iniciacion desarrollado por la
Dra. Carolina Lizana Campos de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la UACh.

Troubled Diamond Foods Inc., which operates a plant in Beloit that produces Kettle brand potato chips, is talking with private equity firms about taking a minority stake in the San Francisco company, Barrons recently reported.