Potato News from China

SINOBAKE (Guangdong Shunde Huaji Machinery Industry Co., Ltd.) , a manufacturer of processing equipment - including stackable potato chips lines - celebrated its 30th anniversary. The company has evolved from a start-up to a mature enterprise over the past three decades, navigating numerous challenges with a commitment to 'quality first, customer first.'

In May 2024, SINOBAKE company dressed up for the Bakery China 2024 exhibition held in Shanghai. This exhibition is one of the largest baking exhibitions in Asia, bringing together baking industry experts and enterprises from all over the world.

On May 21st-24th, 2024, Join SINOBAKE Group will showcase producer's latest equipment at the 2024 China International Bakery Exhibition, held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC).

China develops a new method for detecting viruses in potatoes capable of providing results in just 5 minutes.

WPC President Peter VanderZaag was honoured to receive an invitation to deliver an address at the Chinese Potato Expo, held in Shandong Province

Members of the executive team of Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. joined with distinguished guests to celebrate the grand opening of the company’s new processing facility in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China.

By the end of 2022, in a well-known potato growing area in China, the factory buildings were ready to be furnished with a Grisnich receiving, cleaning and sorting plant.

The Shanghai World of Packaging (SWOP) will be happening every year from 2024. Under the Interpack alliance umbrella, the trade fair is paying even stronger attention to the requirements of the local market and is strengthening international relations within the processing and packaging industry.

Fresh potato production for MY 2022/23 (September to August) is forecast at 93 million metric tons (MMT), a small decrease from the estimated 95 MMT produced in MY 2021/22 owing to reduced acreage.

Veg of Lund has signed a Letter of Intent with Haofood Shanghai Food Technology Co., Ltd. The companies will cooperate with the common goal of selling, marketing and distributing Veg of Lund’s products - potato based dairy alternatives - under the DUG® brand in China early in 2024.

The World Potato Congress Inc. Board Of Directors announced Mr. Jianmin Xie in a key role as an International Advisor.

China’s top land use regulator has warned local authorities against blunt efforts to reassign land for crops amid a national push for food security.

In a bid to turbocharge the potato industry, 11 Belt and Road (BRI) countries including China and Pakistan have joined international universities, companies and organisations to launch an international network on the potato industry at a forum held recently at China's Southwest University.

As the potato-planting season approaches, baby potatoes from northwest China's Xiji County are making their way to the fields of farmers across the country's major potato-producing area.

Exceptional weather conditions, strict corona measures and political elections. Potato company HZPC has been involved in China since the beginning of this century, but as in the Netherlands, every year is different.

The World Potato Congress Inc.'s Board of Directors Congratulates Mr. Xiaoping Lu, their WPC International Advisor, upon his retirement from the International Potato Center-China Center for Asia Pacific (CCCAP).

Relevant data show that from January to August 2022, China exported about 220,300 tons of fresh or refrigerated potatoes (except for seeds, the same below), an increase of about 2.57% compared with the same period last year.

SnowValley Agriculture is one of the largest potato industrial chain groups in China, with potato seed as the core, modern agricultural service as an extension, and food processing as the leader