Potato News from Asia

The Rs 2000-crore SPS Group, with interests in steel, hotels and biscuits among other things, has taken over a potato flakes project set up by Apurba Saha's Pailan group, another diversified outfit that is into education, aviation, township developmen...

McDonald's recorded 12 per cent growth in the Middle East in 2007 compared with just six per cent globally, a senior manager has revealed. And now the US-based fast-food giant plans to increase the number of outlets in the UAE from 52 to 100 in the ne...

Potato growers were holding a demonstration over the non-availability of space in cold storages even as the district administration claimed that the storages had enough space to accommodate around 32,000 quintals of potatoes. Farmers are already force...

India's oldest western fast food giant Nirula’s is ready for a price battle with McDonald's. And adding to the price zing, Nirula’s will serve up a new menu as well. In an attempt to take on McDonald’s might, Nirula’s is offering a wide array of comfo...

As the Olympic torch makes its way to Beijing, some American fast food companies are following the flame in a bid to capitalize on both the growing Chinese consumer market and the coming influx of tourist dollars. Chains big and small are either openi...

Post-harvest, potato prices have gone down sharply this year in the main growing areas, especially in West Bengal. The price of the ‘Jyoti’ variety procured directly from the farmers is currently ruling at around Rs 100 per 50-kg packet, down from Rs 1...

The Japanese snack and candy manufacturer Frente Co has joined with the local consumer products distributor Durbell Co, a subsidiary of Red Bull Group, to introduce KaraMucho potato chips with the first-year sales target of 80 million baht. Frente sen...

Chinese consumers prefer local brands to foreign ones, with domestic products the top choice in 39 of 57 categories, or 68 percent, in a recent survey. The "2008 Ideal Brands for Chinese Consumers"survey was conducted by the Business Brand I...

A new blight-resistant potato variety that has a high solid content, plus an expected high return on investment (ROI), has been named after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The potato variety – whose original planting material was sourced from the C...

The growth of food processing sector has nearly doubled to 13.7 per cent during the last four years, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai said. "The food processing sector growth has reached the double digit at 13.7...

Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha, a local farmer who has done his MSc in plant physiology and pathology from Cornell University in the United States, with a specialisation in potato seed, has set up a laboratory in the farms owned by his father, and has bee...

Yum! Brands Inc, el mayor operador de cadenas de comida rápida del mundo, registró un alza del 30 por ciento en sus beneficios en el mercado chino durante el año pasado.   El volumen de negocios del operador de los establecimientos de KFC, Taco Bell y...

Yum! Brands Inc, the world's largest fast food chain operator, realized a 30 percent profit increase in the Chinese market last year. The operator of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut stores in China registered 21.5 billion yuan (about 3 billion U.S. dollar...

Drought in 2007 sharply reduced domestic oilseed production in Turkey, leading to higher imports of oilseeds, meal and vegetable oil in MY2007. Although domestic production of sunflower should rebound if weather patterns return to normal, forecast shar...

Getting a foothold in India's processed foods market, estimated to be worth $90 billion, requires persistence and a willingness to adapt products to suit culinary and cultural preferences, experts say.Rising incomes, more working women, modern stores a...

A bumper potato production in eight northern districts of Bangladesh has compelled farmers to preserve the item in their indigenous methods as the total output far surpassed the capacity of cold storages.   Officials of Agriculture Extension Department...

Beyshenbek Bolotbekov, the Governor of Talasskaya region, met with the entrepreneurs from India in Talas, CA-NEWS informs. The intention of the Indian entrepreneurs to construct the potato processing plant in Talas was discussed during this meeting.Th...

Thirty-seven boys and girls at the newly-opened Kolkata outlet have been trained to lip-read the customers' requests. In a first of its kind initiative and available only in Kolkata, global fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has set up its f...