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Luego de que la Región del Mayo fuera una de las más afectadas por las heladas del año pasado sobre todo en el cultivo de papa.

The nutritional value of potatoes will take center stage during the upcoming Washington-Oregon Potato Conference.

The French fry appears to be taking sole blame of Americans being obese.

A potato disease that arrived late this summer in the Pacific Northwest called zebra chip likely can't be spread by planting infected seed, new research suggests.

Burger King, in a bid to catch up with McDonalds and take a bite out of the competition posed by fast-food rivals such as Wendys, is experimenting with home delivery.

Few people know better than Greg Jones how important it is to sort and grade potatoes accurately and quickly.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Del Monte Canada Inc., a leading provider and marketer of packaged fruits, fruit snacks and vegetables in Canada, from an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners. Th...

An image problem continues to trouble all sectors of the spud industry, according to the Alliance for Potato Research and Education

Yannery Gómez Bonilla, a graduate in Biology from the University of Costa Rica, has done research for her PhD into the application of granulovirus against two species of potato tuber moth.

They all had slightly different ways of expressing it, but when panelists at the Potato Expo 2012 discussed sustainability, their message came down to three words known as the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit.

De aardappel zal binnen enkele decennia tarwe als tweede akkerbouwgewas in de wereld verdringen. Dat is de overtuiging van onderzoeker Anton Haverkort van Plant Research International van Wageningen UR.

The potato industry is behind a unified effort to learn more about acrylamide - which was discovered in food about ten years ago.

Una serie de días de campo, orientados a transferir conocimientos y experiencias a agricultores de las regiones de La Araucanía, Los Ríos y Los Lagos, efectuarán el Consorcio de la Papa y el INIA durante los meses de enero y marzo.

Officials associated with the potato industry in the Pacific Northwest have indicated that acreage planted to potatoes in Oregon and Washington increased this season.

JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT), a leading global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries, announced cost reduction actions in its FoodTech segment in response to market conditions with an objective to improve...

Las tablas y los cuadros fueron tomados de Agrodata Perú, blog que ofrece información actualizada sobre las importaciones y exportaciones de productos agropecuarios del país. La base de datos es obtenida de la SUNAT Perú.

Barry C. Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Snak King Corp., announced on January 3 that his firm has acquired C.J. Vitner Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of snack foods in the greater Chicago market. Terms of the transactio...

Entre 300 y 400 visitantes se espera que asistan al XIV Congreso Nacional de Papa Sur Sonora a celebrarse los días 18, 19 y 20 del presente mes en la ciudad, lo que permitirá que los productores de otros estados conozcan las condiciones de cultivo y av...