News on The Potato Supply Chain

Farmers and cold storage owners in India (Agra, UP) have lauded the decision to lift the ban on import of seed potatoes.

Robert Tominaga, president of Heyburn, Idaho-based Southwind Farms, has seen demand for the fingerlings his company grows and other specialties rise dramatically in recent years.

Plans are underway to construct an Irish potato processing plant in Musanze District to cut down post-harvest losses, Tony Nsanganira, the State Minister for Agriculture, has said.

Rwanda potato farmers have decried the low farm-gate prices currently being offered by dealers.

Following the discovery of potato wart on Prince Edward Island (PEI) in August the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) notified the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of temporary mitigation efforts by CFIA.

Another potato has been found with a sewing needle inside, the Prince Edward Island RCMP announced yesterday. This is the seventh sewing needle discovered in a potato.

Audio, resumen y presentación de la conferencia magistral que Peter Kromann, investigador del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) en Quito, dio en el XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP) en Bogotá (Colombia).

La presente guía tiene por finalidad asistir a los profesionales y técnicos a cargo de los ensayos diseñados para seleccionar genotipos de papa con resistencia a esta enfermedad.

RCMP says metal objects were intentionally placed. Police believe all affected fries at Cavendish Farms did not leave facility.

Gracias al apoyo del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), sede Quito, participé como periodista en el XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), celebrado recientemente en Bogotá. Te invito a leer y oír algunas de las mejores conferencias presentadas en dicho evento.

Insecto que fue reportado por primera vez en Honduras en el año 2002, por técnicos del Departamento de Protección Vegetal de la Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA). Esta hoja técnica muestra cómo se disemina y monitorea.

Florimond Desprez, an independent family‐owned company, has acquired Germicopa, the leading French potato seed company and world leader in firm flesh potato varieties.

William Chase, founder of Chase Distillery, will double production of premium spirits to 500,000 bottles this year after a bumper potato harvest.<

Potandon Produce LLC will be showcasing two new varieties at the upcoming PMA show, the Klondike Royale, a wonderful yellow fleshed potato and Smiley’s, a petite yellow-fleshed potato with naturally occurring marks on the surface of the skin which resemble smiles.

Growers of the potato variety Lamoka used for chip processing have seen a higher than normal incidence of blackleg in their fields this summer.

HZPC Holland bv, wereldleider in aardappelveredeling, maakt bekend dat tijdens de aandeelhoudersvergadering van 9 oktober jl. het dividend op HZPC‑certificaten is vastgesteld op €7,50. HZPC keert daarmee over boekjaar 2013/14 het hoogste dividend in zijn bestaansgeschiedenis uit.

Es la recomendación clave surgida de las presentaciones del XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), celebrado recientemente en la ciudad de Bogotá, y del panel sobre consumo y mercado que se realizó en dicho evento.

To improve the air distribution potato storages using boxes, Mooij Agro has developed the EVERY-AIR.