Potato News

Los trabajadores del combinado industrial de cítricos de Ciego de Ávila iniciaron la elaboración de papa prefrita, alimento de significativo ahorro en la disminución de importaciones. El propósito es obtener unas dos mil 100 toneladas del producto dor...

Walkers, the UK’s No. 1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, is unveiling a multimillion pound TV advertising campaign this month for its £77 million Walkers Sensations brand . Re-launched in February with a striking new premium black pack design featuring...

Frito-Lay rolled out the red carpet for its Western New York sales team in Amherst Thursday, honoring 160 representatives as the company’s top sellers in the nation. Balloon arches, noisemakers and a speech by Buffalo Bills Hall of Famer Thurman Thom...

Spotting a market opportunity ten years ago, John Mudd set out to create an alternative to mass-produced crisps, building a business that today sees 2.5 million packs of Real hand-cooked crisps sold each week in the UK."My objective was to design ...

AVEBE will be present at the European Coatings Show 2009 in Nürnberg. Avebe invites you to visit their stand at Hall 7, Stand 103.The Exhibition Centre Nürnberg once again becomes the industry’s renowned get-together for high-grade coatings, paints, s...

Down an alley from a KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut here, Li Hong sat inside a dingy little storefront that serves full-course dinners for a dollar.A Western fast-food meal would have cost three times that much, said the young woman, who works as a sale...

Throughout the last two years, CTI volunteers Shiv Murty, Steve Laible, and Nancy Laible have been in contact with Prof. Narendra Shah at the Center for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bomba...

The basic salted crisp, pioneered by Smiths's after the First World War, has been at the heart of millions of children's lunch boxes and workers' snacks for generations.But according to Mintel, the market research firm, the relative upstart flavour of ...

You can boil them, mash them and roast them but rarely are potatoes burned to a cinder to generate electricity - but that's what one Lincolnshire company is going to do.Branston Ltd has been given permission to build an energy from waste plant at its M...

VTA, NAV en LTO richten een stichting op die partijen aardappelen opkoopt die de markt verstoren. Bovendien gaat de stichting de aardappelmarkt transparanter maken. De Stichting Poolfonds Aardappelen (SPA) vraagt telers om 5 procent van de verkoopopb...

Idaho potato farmers are likely to pay more to grow spuds this year than in 2008, despite the recent drop in diesel and nitrogen fertilizer prices."My guess is that the overall cost increase will be somewhere between zero and 5 percent,"said ...

Un nuevo estudio sugiere que una sustancia química potencialmente cancerígena presente en algunos alimentos ricos en carbohidratos no elevaría el riesgo de desarrollar tumores mamarios. La sustancia, llamada acrilamida, ganó notoriedad hace varios año...

Ante la necesidad de los productores de papa, de la región del Cofre y el Valle de Perote, de aprovechar una parte importante de su cosecha que no se logra comercializar, con el apoyo del trabajo científico Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Perote, se ...

Caviar and champagne might be out, but the humble potato is reigning supreme in the recession. Sales of seed-potatoes have sky rocketed and a major distributor predicts demand from gardeners will be up 30 per cent for the coming season. At Fairfields ...

Bell Flavors and Fragrances has introduced a new sodium-reducing flavor technology for use in meats, snacks, condiments and soups, which it claims mimics the flavor of salt without its negative health impacts. ReduxSo is a natural flavor system based o...

Ten catering students from across the country battled it out recently in a bid to take home one of the top three prizes in the grand final of the Potato Council’s ‘Great Potato Challenge’ competition 2009.

In sharp contrast to most other sectors, agricultural machinery manufacturers remain positive about 2009. Already, farm debt-to-asset ratios are at an all-time low while farms continue to invest in equipment. Everyone has been cutting back on expen...

It's a long and winding road in search of the perfect crisp, but a Moutere couple have demonstrated that it can all be worth it. Alastair Paulin reports.The question of what makes the perfect potato chip sounds like the kind of idle musing that might h...