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一月 28, 2025
Building regional capacity to manage invasive pests and diseases to safeguard sustainable seed potato trade
Potatoes are increasingly traded globally, raising the risk of spreading quarantined pests and diseases. Organizations like EPPO and national bodies regulate many of these threats, necessitating a unified approach to pest and disease management.
四月 11, 2023
PepsiCo Launches Crop Intelligence Model for India in Collaboration with Cropin
PepsiCo India, through its brand 'Lay’s', announced a crop and plot-level predictive intelligence model to help farmers maximize potato yields coupled with quality via functional dashboards on user-friendly mobile apps.
六月 19, 2022
Vanmark ships the first machines from its location in India: Three potato peelers for a customer in China
Vanmark, an industrial potato and produce processing equipment manufacturer, announced that its location in Bengaluru, India, has shipped its first three peeler machines to a large customer based in China. Sponsored Content
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七月 02, 2017
Potato Growers in Hassan losing hope of good returns as lack of rain results in poor germination
Within 30 days into potato cultivation this year, growers in Hassan, Karnataka are losing hope of good returns in their field. The poor germination is linked by experts to the lack of rainfall.
一月 03, 2017
35 New Potato Varieties to be released in Karnataka in the next three years
The Hassan Horticulture Research Extension Station of the University of Horticultural Sciences-Bagalkot (UHS-B) in Karnataka, India, is all set to introduce 35 new varieties of potatoes in the next one to three years.
七月 11, 2012
Steps taken to check potato late blight in the Indian state of Karnataka
The horticulture department and Krishi Vignana Kendra had organised a demonstration of spraying pesticides in Narasipura in the wake of spread of blight disease for potato crop under Salagame hobli in the taluk recently.
六月 14, 2009
Karnataka farmers shy away from potatoes in fear of blight
Owing to the fear of blight, many farmers are shying away from cultivating potato. Last year, potato was grown on 50,000 hectares of land in the district, but the crop on 35,000 hectares was affected by blight, and farmers lost Rs. 300 crore as a res...