News on The Potato Supply Chain

Volunteer potato plants growing from seed infected with zebra chip are likely too few in number and survive too briefly to contribute to the spread of the crop disease, according to new Oregon State University research findings.

At Snackex, Lamine Lahouasnia, Head of Packaged Food Research at Euromonitor International, will provide a strategic insight and analysis on how retailer own brands are developing and what manufacturers are doing to keep one step ahead of private labels.

Harvester specialist the Ploeger Oxbo Group announced in June it had acquired all the shares of SAS Bourgoin Investissements, the Bourgoin Group, headquartered in Bournezeau, France.

Se trata de la I Rueda de Negocios entre productores y empresas de la cadena, cuyo principal objetivo fue el de concretar negocios entre quienes producen y compran diferentes clases de papa.

Guía diseñada para proporcionar información actualizada de las principales plagas que afectan al cultivo de la papa a los facilitadores encargados de la capacitación con agricultores.

El Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) acaba de actualizar el listado de productores de semilla de papa con registro en dicha institución.

La Comisión Multisectorial de Celebración del Día Nacional de la Papa 2013 dio a conocer las actividades que se realizarán este año en la novena edición del Día Nacional de la Papa que tiene como mensaje principal “La Papa es Nutrición”.

La bacteria, nombrada como IBUN 4P-03, segrega una sustancia que presenta efectos fungicidas contra el hongo causante de esta enfermedad,

A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds.

The UK government has stepped up its efforts to control the potato disease ring rot.

An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century

La gran hambruna irlandesa fue causada por una variante de un hongo desconocida hasta ahora, según un nuevo estudio.

El Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario (MIDA) viene evaluando unas 28 variedades de papa en búsqueda de las que puedan adaptarse al medio panameño y cumplan con las características que solicitan las cadenas de comidas rápidas que operan en el país.

Wholesale merchants in Karnataka have started selling their stock of over 30,500 tonnes of potato seeds brought from Punjab.

As north Florida begins spring volume up to two weeks late, buyers can expect lower red potato supplies to keep demand high and prices above normal.

The chips are down as Germany launches a probe into suspected potato price fixing (table potatoes) over the past decade which may have cost consumers and farmers hundreds of millions of euros, according to local media.

Manitoba potato growers signed a contract with McCain Foods last week, but their prices won’t increase from last year.?

Semagn-Asredie Kolech, a Cornell doctoral candidate in the field of horticulture, studies the potato and bridges the tradition of Ethiopian farming with the modernity of agricultural science.