Cadena de Suministro de Papas

Business magnate Ron Offutt formally has denied wrongdoing in a potato price-fixing lawsuit, asking that the case be dismissed or that it go to jury trial.

PACK EXPO is breaking records. PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the owner and producer of PACK EXPO Las Vegas (Sept. 23-25, 2013;Las Vegas Convention Center) announces that it is expanding the show floor yet again to mee...

Insort and EVK have signed a worldwide license agreement with Key Technology for use of Chemical Imaging Technology in proven Key solutions provided to the potato industry.

Key Technology announces that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with EVK DI Kerschhaggl GmbH and Insort GmbH to deploy Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT®), an advanced value-added hyperspectral solution, in Key’s products, further enhancing...

The Maine Potato Board is pleased to announce the 2013 Farm Family of the Year - the Wayne and Gregg Garrison family of Blaine.

De Jong, a potato breeder and geneticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, hopes that at least one of the plants will yield a best seller, but it’s far more likely that they’ll amount to compost.

Recently, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment offered by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) to require USDA to include fresh white potatoes as part of its Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Científicos del Conicet lograron desarrollar una variedad de papa transgénica que resiste mejor los ataques del Virus de la Papa Y, patógeno que afecta a mas del 50% de los cultivos y reduce su productividad entre 20 y 80% en los casos más severos.

De llegar a ser un éxito el proyecto de mejoramiento genético iniciado, los paperos ahorrarían no menos de 75 millones de dólares anuales que gastan en fungicidas para controlar el tizón tardío o gota.

A multi-year research project, undertaken for the Australian potato industry, will come to fruition this month, with the launch of the project’s cutting-edge DNA soil testing service, which will help the industry to curb the impact of soil-borne diseases.

La industria ha descubierto las grandes ventajas de esta variedad, creada en el programa de mejoramiento genético de papa de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

El convenio de cooperación interinstitucional mejorará la productividad de los cultivos de papa, camote, tubérculos y raíces andinas.

Precocida y congelada, en conserva, deshidratada para puré, en almidón y frituras tipo chip son los cinco tipos de productos que se elaboran a partir de las tres variedades creadas por investigadores de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Como no hubo una propuesta clara para entregar los dineros, estos financiarán otros programas.

Despite one of the most challenging years in British farming history, with early droughts followed by widespread floods, PepsiCo surpassed the target of a one-third reduction in water use using drip irrigation at the same time as growing 'more crop per...

After four years of work, the National Potato Council (NPC) and the United States Potato Board (USPB) are pleased the government of the Philippines has revised its import requirements to allow for entry of U.S. fresh table-stock potatoes.

Resumen, presentación y audio de la charla magistral que Carol Chehab dio en el ”V Congreso Ecuatoriano de la Papa” y el “IV Congreso Iberoamericano sobre Investigación y Desarrollo en Papa”, realizado en Riobamba (Ecuador), 25-27 de junio de 2013.

Los 149 supermercados de Spar venderán por primera vez la variedad ecológica 'Lady Balfour'. La cadena ofrecerá a sus clientes el kilo de estos nuevos tubérculos a 75 céntimos.