News on The Potato Supply Chain

A fin de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria del pueblo, el Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), está en proceso de validación y estudio de nuevas variedades de semilla para la siembra de papa.

The variable weather conditions in the United Kingdom, leading to a dramatic drop in potato stocks made 2012 the worst year in living memory for growers.

Potato company Produce Investments on Friday reported a loss as wet weather in 2012 impacted crops and pushed up costs.

A delayed start to Europe's potato's plantings has prompted ideas of a revival in potato prices, whose decline this year on futures markets, despite inventories at a "historically low level"has puzzled investors.

La revista PAPA de la Federación Colombiana de Productores de Papa (FEDEPAPA) ha publicado un artículo sobre el potencial de desarrollo y fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria en base a papa, en Colombia (2013).

The pale cyst nematode, Globodera pallida, is one bad roundworm. Unchecked, it invades the roots of potato and other host crops to feed, obstructing the free flow of nutrients and causing stunted growth, wilted leaves, and other symptoms that can event...

Idaho seems to have won an international trademark dispute over its most famous product.

For the past two seasons, Brendon Rockey has planted peas, chickling vetch and buckwheat in the same rows as potatoes, using a specially designed seeder.

Minka-dev está recibiendo propuestas de impulsores o inversores para agregar valor a la papa nativa y que esta pueda consolidarse como un producto de alto valor agregado.

The National Potato Council is investigating options to restore USDA potato stocks estimates cut due to budget sequestration, including industry funding to cover the work or identifying offsetting cuts to less important potato reports.

Restructuring and corporate advisory firm McGrathNicol was yesterday appointed as receivers following Heard Phillips being appointed administrators of the company.

Potandon Produce LLC announced that Kent Romrell, senior vice president of sales, will retire at the end of March after a career in produce spanning over 30 years.

Entre los datos compartidos por el entomólogo Graham Walker de Nueva Zelanda, durante su visita a la Universidad de Chile, uno de los generó más impacto hace relación con el ingreso a aquél país del psílido de la papa. La pregunta obligada: ¿es esa pla...

Apartes mas importantes del documento "Best practice for seed handling and storage"que recientemente publicó el Potato Council del Reino Unido.

It appears that potato psyllids, the tiny winged insects that can spread zebra chip disease in potato fields, will overwinter in Boise, Idaho, this season, despite the city experiencing one of its coldest Januaries on record.

Una invitación a participar en una alianza para el monitoreo de la diversidad genética de las papas nativas, denominada “Iniciativa Chirapaq La Ruta del Arcoiris”, que está encabezando el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), formuló Stef De Haan, inv...

Some farmers on P.E.I. are dealing with the problem of potatoes rotting in storage this winter and growers in the western part of the province are especially hard hit.

Red, right size and low on sugar, Lady Rosetta is the flavour of the season for north Gujarat’s farmers.