Potato News

Nine Global Potato Industry Award Winners were honoured at the 12th World Potato Congress in Adelaide, Australia.

In a year marked by escalating climate emergencies and global calls for sustainable solutions, Regenagri, a global leader in regenerative agriculture, has announced impressive performance in its Impact Report has been launched.

J&J Green Paper has announced that its revolutionary JANUS® barrier technology is being used by Arcos Dorados Holdings, Inc., the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee and a local packaging supplier in Argentina.

In a first of its kind initiative by any food processor on the Indian subcontinent, the biggest potato processor from the country, Iscon Balaji Foods, has organised a month-long exhaustive farmers’ training programme to share the best agricultural practices for sustainability in the value chain.

Herr Foods Inc., Pennsylvania's cherished local snack maker, is thrilled to introduce their latest potato chip flavors, inviting everyone to buy, try, and vote to help crown the winner of the Flavored by Philly Contest.

Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with David Manzini, President of PepsiCo Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia, to discuss the construction of Pepsico's snacks plant construction project in the Almaty region.

Vultus, in collaboration with Lyckeby and Hushållningssällskapet, has developed a satellite image analysis algorithm for precision fertilization in potato farming, demonstrating superior accuracy in predicting leaf nitrogen content in Swedish field trials.

M S International - a major exporter of potatoes for processing - has received the prestigious FIEO (WR) Export Excellence Award in the Emerging Exporter (MSME) category for the year 2020-2021.

McCain Foods Canada has expanded their category offerings by launching two new flavours of McCain Medleys.

With the snacks market in Italy accelerating and cost-conscious consumers increasingly turning to budget-friendly private-label goods, Preziosi Food, a leading Italian manufacturer of potato chips and snacks, needed a complete solutions partner with the capability to deliver significant production capacity increases in a very short 12-month timeframe.

La sexta edición del evento que reúne a productores y asociados al sector celebró con éxito su sexta edición.

Las características favorables de la región de Amambay hacen a la apuesta gubernamental por el cultivo.

Debido al avance de la cosecha, de la mano con el cese de las lluvias, los precios mayoristas bajan en los mercados principales.

Los rendimientos se condicen con aumentos en las siembras, sobre todo en la región de Puno.

Todo parece indicar que los precios se mantendrán altos, incluso si los rendimientos cayeron con respecto al año pasado.

Bayer and Solynta have reached an agreement to collaborate on the commercialization and distribution of true potato seeds in Kenya and India.

The OptiClean initiative, supported by a DKK 5.5 million (USD 790,000) grant from Denmark's Green Development and Demonstration Programme (GUDP), aims to tackle the problem of half-rotten carrots in consumers’ vegetable drawers.

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