Potato News

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America business unit is launching a new snack, SmartFood popcorn clusters, which give women the indulgent flavors they love and also nutrients that they often don’t get enough of. A one-ounce serving of SmartFood popcorn clus...

Remember the days of sticking a fork into a potato a couple times, then popping it into the microwave for 10 minutes or so? That’s ancient history … or, at least it’s heading in that direction. Microwaveable packaging is quickly catching on, according...

For the third year running, the United States Potato Board (USPB) hosted guests from select international private voluntary organizations (PVOs) for a workshop to introduce US dehydrated potatoes (dehy) as a sensible solution to food programming. The w...

El ministro de Agricultura y Ganadería, Héctor Hernández, inauguró el Centro Nacional de Producción de Semilla de Papa que incluye el laboratorio e invernaderos en esta comunidad El fin es producir 19 mil 500 quintales de semilla certificada y dar acc...

El presidente del Consejo de Ministros, Yehude Simon Munaro, felicitó hoy a las autoridades y población de la localidad de San Francisco de Asís de Yarusyacán, en Pasco, por la construcción de una planta procesadora de papa con una inversión municipal ...

Harvest a red, yellow or purple specialty potato and its skin color will be shiny and bright. That’s paramount, because skin quality drives buyers to put a particular potato in their shopping cart. Store that potato for a month or two, and its skin co...

The most anticipated retail promotion of the year, the 2009 Potato Lover’s Month Retail Display Contest, proved to be yet another blockbuster hit for the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) with over 2,150 entries, an 11% increase in participation over 2008....

De vaste stemming in de aardappelmarkt is de laatste week m.n. bepaald door de kooplust van de Belgische aardappelverwerkers. Zo steeg de Belgapomnotering voor 35 mm opw. fritesgeschikt Bintje in korte tijd van € 7,50 naar € 10,00 per 100 kg excl. BTW....

Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said on Monday she will allow test cultivation of a potato containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Open air trials of the GMO potato Amflora, developed by German chemicals group BASF presented no t...

Chefs over de hele wereld kijken elk jaar uit naar 'La Bonnotte', meest exclusieve aardappeltje ter wereld.

Frito-Lay North America, Plano, TX, a division of PepsiCo, has announced a new partnership with TerraCycle, Inc. (www.terracycle.net) an upcycling company that will take used packaging from Frito-Lay snack products and turn them into affordable, quali...

With a record yield of produce like potato and tomato, agricultural workers in the central-eastern of Ciego de Avila support Cuba's national food plans amidst the current world economic crisis. Reports say that private and state-owned farms in the terr...