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With potatoes from Punjab expected to reach Bengal only in December, state cold-storage owners are planning to make use of the projected supply crunch from mid-November.

To enhance the storage life of vegetable products, especially of onions and potatoes, Madhya Pradesh government has decided to make changes in the cold-storages here by taking help of the technical know-how available in Holland. "Holland's expert...

The West Bengal government has decided to curb its decision to restrict inter-state transfer of potato after October. The new harvest starts coming into the market from November.

Agra may be famous for its monuments, but it also holds 7% of India's cold storage capacity - more than in the whole of Punjab. Almost all of it is used to store potatoes. How did the city and surrounding areas become India's cold storage hub and what...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has advised farmers to sell potato stocks stored in cold storage judiciously during October and November, to fetch better returns.

Potato farmers in West Bengal are being forced to sell their produce at a much lower price as huge volumes of potatoes are lying at the cold storages.

For a long time, headlines on "potato"and "school lunches"usually addressed the new rules for school lunches discussed in the United States. Here is a different perspective on "potatoes as part of school lunches", from Wes...

The potato capital of Gujarat - Deesa is facing acute price crisis with cost of the vegetable dipping to the lowest in a decade. The potato growing farmers and wholesale merchants are crying hoarse over the excess supply of potato from Agra, which has ...

Farmers in India's potato-growing belt of Agra region, which accounts for more than 30 percent of the country's yield, are in peril as market prices continue to fall below the cost of cultivation. A bumper summer crop has not helped as they are under p...

Potatoes worth millions of rupees were gutted in a major fire in the Khedut Cold Storage (KCS), owned by the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee.

In West Bengal, 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes, valued at Rs 50 lakh were left to rot on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.

Soon after setting shop in India, McDonalds’ Vikram Bakshi knew he had a problem — the signature French Fries weren’t right. It took him nine years and several experiments to get it right:   Name: Vikram BakshiDesignation: CEO, McDonalds India (North...

Potato prices crashed by about Rs 100/quintal following release of stocks held by the West Bengal Government in the market.

The West Bengal government’s handling of a bumper potato crop this year is becoming a political hot potato.

Potato prices may drop as the West Bengal government is all set to offload 1 million tonne (mt) in the market by next week to rapidly cut excess stocks.

With close to about 25 per cent of potatoes having been released from cold storages across West Bengal, potato prices, which had inched up by Rs 10-20 a quintal last week, dropped on Tuesday. The wholesale price of the tuber (Jyoti variety) dropped Rs ...

There was a need to constitute a potato promotion board at the central level in order to look into various issues beginning from cultivation to consumption of the tuber in the country. The matter was discussed at the annual meeting of the Federation of...

Since the beginning of Mar­ch, the price of potato has dipped more than 16 per ce­nt on account of higher pro­duction of the commod­ity in Ind­ia this year. High arriv­als have be­en reported in the man­dis and th­at has kept the sentiments we­ak for t...