News on The Potato Supply Chain

Het aardappelareaal voor oogst 2008 in de Oost-Europese landen (Polen, Roemenië, Litouwen, Letland, Tsjechië, Bulgarije, Hongarije, Slowakije, Estland en Slovenië) is t.o.v. de voorgaande jaren verder afgenomen. Naar schatting (bron Eurostat) zal het t...

De rooitijd voor de aardappelen van de hoofdoogst is aangebroken. Na de ruime hoeveelheid neerslag van eind vorige week zijn de weersomstandigheden alsmede de vooruitzichten prima zodat er de komende week flink kan worden doorgewerkt.De stemming in de ...

Een aantal aardappeltelers heeft teveel geld uitgegeven aan de bestrijding van de schimmelziekten phytophthora en alternaria. De telers deden dit vooral uit angst voor de schimmelziekten of door onwetendheid, aldus Huub Schepers, onderzoeker bij Wageni...

Riding high on the wave of increased awareness generated by the ‘Love Potatoes’ summer marketing campaign, Potato Council is setting its sights on increasing potato-based meals eaten in the home even further this autumn.The new season of activity will ...

Anualmente, Bolivia produce alrededor de 750 mil toneladas de papa, cuya totalidad va a abastecer el mercado interno. Sin embargo, un 15 por ciento de esta producción se pierde por diferentes problemas de postcosecha, según advierte la Fundación Proinp...

The potato crop in the Red River Valley is said to be the best in a long time, both in production and in quality of the spuds.The government says the potato acreage of less than 80,000 acres is down 15 percent from last year and the lowest since the mi...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board held a news conference today to outline the initiatives it has taken to improve financial returns for potato farmers. Potato farmers have experienced severe financial losses over the past few years due to low price...

Duane Maatz has resigned as president of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, to become the executive director of the Wisconsin Potato &Vegetable Growers Association, Antigo, Wisconsin.

Glycoalkaloids in potato was the topic of a number of newspaper articles recently , since the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture published a review on glycoalkaloids in potato and potato products.

The P.E.I. Potato Board came flying to its own defence and to the defence of big french fry companies Monday after a well-known Island farmer and agriculture activist accused the companies last week of undercutting potato prices and the board of being ...

In the first of a series on sustainability, FoodNavigator looks at the value of sustainable practices and reporting and how it can improve a company’s standing among shareholders, customers and peers.

De prijs voor consumptieaardappelen voor de verwerkende industrie blijft dit seizoen boven de 10 euro per 100 kilo. Dat verwacht de aardappeltelersvereniging Northwest European Potato Growers (NEPG).In de NEPG zitten vertegenwoordigers van telers uit...

Recientemente se ha creado la Red Nacional de Innovación en Patata y de la cual es coordinador José Ignacio Ruiz de Galarreta, investigador principal de NEIKER-Tecnalia. El objetivo general de la Red Papata es organizar y hacer operativa una red españo...

Big french fry companies are undercutting P.E.I. potato prices by flooding the open market with cheap potatoes, says an sland potato farmer and a potato marketer.Jim Read, of J.B. Read Marketing Inc., and Danny Henricken, whose family has been growing ...

The minister of agriculture and water resources, Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma has disclosed that Nigeria is the fourth largest potato producer in the Sub-Saharan Africa, saying that potato which is produced mostly in the area of Jos, Plateau state has a rich ...

A pest-resistant strain of genetically modified potato, earmarked for possible commercial release in South Africa, will be of no use to local spud farmers, said the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) this week. It will also increase risk to the farmer ...

Nu doorpakken in Nederland en aandacht blijven genereren in andere landen’, is een van de conclusies in het Ecorys-rapport ‘Potato Supply Management’. De akkerbouwvakbond NAV heeft de ambitie om nu door te pakken met de krachtenbundeling van aardappelt...

This season promises to be a bad one for potato blemish disease black dot, UK potato growers are being advised.“Black dot levels after harvest and throughout storage tend to be lower when a crop is harvested early,” said Dr Jeff Peters of the CSL Plant...