News on The Potato Supply Chain

Gold Dust Potato Processors and Walker Brothers welcomed customers, vendors and guests to their 10th Annual Open House Field Day.

Ondanks een lichte groei van de oppervlakte consumptieaardappelen naar 72.100 hectaren (+2%) zal de oogst dit jaar aanzienlijk onder het niveau zitten van vorig jaar

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today released two documents that outline steps to help chain restaurants comply with new federal nutrition labeling requirements. “One of the most important things we can do when it comes to the nation’s health i...

Potato growers are fervently hoping for some rain to bulk up the main harvest.

Una variedad de papa enriquecida con proteína mediante ingeniería genética se está probando actualmente en la India con propósitos comerciales. Desarrollado por Asis Datta en el Centro Nacional para Investigación en el Genoma Vegetal de la Universidad...

It has been bred by Plant & Food Research and it has a smooth deep purple skin with purple and white flesh.

A genetically engineered, protein-enriched potato is being readied for commercial field-testing in India, scientists said.

In New South Wales, Australia, Matt Simmons can barely keep up with demand for the organic potatoes he and wife Sue grow on their 48-hectare farm on the Hawkesbury River.

The Belarusian national association of potato fruit and vegetable manufacturers Kartofelplodoovoshch and the Belarusian Republican Union of Consumer Societies Belkoopsoyuz have received an order for the express delivery of 40,000 tonnes of potatoes to Russia

In 2006 is in Nederland in ruime mate doorwas in aardappelen opgetreden. Indertijd is door onderzoekers van het PPO Lelystad n.a.v. een thema-ochtend een document opgesteld dat de kennis over doorwas op een rijtje zet.Nu bij aardappeloogst 2010 doorwas...

Biologische producten zijn niet gezonder dan reguliere producten. Ze leveren geen gezondheidswinst, concludeert de Gezondheidsraad.

President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz of the American Frozen Foods Institute (AFFI) today issued a statement responding to Mexico’s announcement of additional retaliatory import tariffs on select U.S. exports due to the ongoing cross-border trucking dispute.

With the mercury level steadily rising across India, potato growers need to switch to new varieties of heat-tolerant seeds for saving their crops, agriculture scientists have suggested.

A centre of the Shimla-based Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) will be set up in West Bengal's West Midnapur district to make quality potato seeds favourable to the state's climatic condition available to the farmers.

Phytopthora in aardappelen gaat steeds meer telers en adviseurs zorgen baren: in steeds meer percelen in Nederland duikt de schimmelziekte op.

In a dispute around the process for the establishment of potato contracts between potato growers and processors, a decision has been reached by the Natural Products Appeals Tribunal. The decision provides a unique insight in the negotiation process o...

AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy said today that diseased potatoes had the potential to threaten the viability of the entire Australian potato industry if the Australian Federal Government allows potatoes to be imported for processing from New Zealand.

In Manitoba, harvest of processing potatoes is underway.