News on The Potato Supply Chain

April 18, 2024

Spain: notable merger to take the potato sector by storm

Hijolusa, Agricola Villena and Natuber will now be know as "Somos Hijolusa", a new company with the reach and means to shake the spanish horticultural landscape.

April 18, 2024

HyFun Foods' HyFarm Initiative Appoints Soundararadjane S as the new CEO, Pioneering Fresh Produce Innovation

HyFun Foods, a trailblazer in the frozen food industry, has announced the appointment of Soundararadjane S as Chief Executive Officer for their groundbreaking initiative HyFarm.

April 18, 2024

España: producción temprana en el norte, demorada

En Galicia, España, las dificultades para con el cultivo temprano se mantienen firmes y los productores se preocupan por el futuro.

Pioneer Potatoes Potato Grading Technology Smaller-scale Farm with Big Grading Results

April 18, 2024

Smaller-scale grower Pioneer Potatoes achieves big results with grading technology

Pioneer Potatoes understands the fundamentals of effectiveness and efficiency in grading and provisioning potatoes.

April 17, 2024

Potato farming in Europe – Late Blight crisis in the making

It is not easy to be a potato farmer in Europe these days, and it may get even worse: To maintain the harvest, farmers need a sufficient number of highly efficient fungicides to cover a spray scheme for control of Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans).

April 17, 2024

Europatat and other Stakeholders raise concerns over proposed plant reproductive material amendments

Europatat is raising concerns about the draft report on Plant Reproductive Material (PRM) which is set for a vote in the European Parliament’s Plenary during the week of 22 April.

Huánuco: dos empresas logran vender en forma directa 180 tons de papas nativas

April 16, 2024

Perú: papa nativa directo del campo a la industria

Organizaciones de productores logran vender, sin intermediarios, variedades nativas a planta procesadora de snacks.

April 16, 2024

México: se redoblan los esfuerzos en Sinaloa por ser los numero uno

Sinaloa en México se posiciona como la región productora por excelencia en México y apuesta a la tecnificación y el mejoramiento.

William Gilmore, un productor de patatas de quinta generación, dice que el mes de marzo ha sido "una pérdida"

April 16, 2024

Europa: preocupación por el clima y la producción

El clima sigue siendo atípico en Europa y productores de todas partes se preocupan por el futuro. Irlanda no es la excepción.

April 15, 2024

AVR celebrates 175th birthday with limited edition Puma 4.0 Potato harvester

In short, a family business that developed from a producer of hand tools into a manufacturer of high-tech machines for every stage of the potato growing process. A history of transformation and specialisation.

A saguaro cactus is seen during a 27-day-long heat wave with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., July 26, 2023. On July 26 at 09:50 (GMT-7), a Flir One ProThermal camera r

April 11, 2024

Earth is currently in the midst of a remarkable 10-month stretch of temperature records

The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday.

1,4GROUP Shifts CIPC Manufacturing to the United States

April 10, 2024

1,4GROUP Shifts Manufacturing of sprout inhibitor CIPC to the United States ensuring availability in North America

In a significant move, 1,4GROUP has shifted the manufacturing of its sprout inhibitor chlorpropham (CIPC) to the United States, marking a transition away from its previous manufacturing base overseas.

April 10, 2024

Vultus: IFFCO Kisan sets new record of requests on the analysis platform

Vultus AB (publ) has announced a new platform record with 21,000 fields analysed in one day.

PoLoPo Unveils SuperAA Platform: Protein Biofactory in Potato

April 10, 2024

Potatoes as Factory for proteins: PoLoPo Unveils SuperAA Platform

PoLoPo, a molecular farming pioneer, has announced its SuperAA platform, the first step to producing proteins in common plant crops. Currently potatoes are grown at greenhouse scale to produce the potato protein patatin as well as the egg protein (!) ovalbumin.

April 09, 2024

España: Princesa Amandine candidata para los premios nacionales de marketing

La variedad, que ha revolucionado lo que se puede hacer en marketing en el sector fresco, obtiene un primer reconocimiento al trabajo de todos los involucrados.

April 09, 2024

Colombia: alerta fitosanitaria por polilla guatemalteca

El Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) dio la alerta por la plaga que puede comprometer seriamente los cultivos de la regiones más céntricas del país.