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Newtec’s weighing, sorting and packing solutions offer reliability and efficiency of production for customers in the food industry, such as potato packers.

El pleno aprueba una moción del gobierno local que solicita limitar la entrada de papa de fuera. El Ayuntamiento de La Laguna apuesta por fomentar el consumo y producción de la papa tinerfeña.

Tong Engineering, manufacturer of handling equipment for potatoes - officially opened the brand-new doors of a purpose-built manufacturing facility on the edge of the company’s hometown of Spilsby in the United Kingdom.

Peeling potatoes on potato processing lines can be a bit like peeling notes from a wad of dollar bills and then throwing them away. Because mechanized peel removal also removes potato flesh, a high quantity of saleable raw material.

It’s not easy for potato growers and processors to always ensure food safety or meet customers’ specified standards. For one thing, all sorts of foreign materials get mixed up with potatoes when they’re harvested.

The main obstacle in this area is drought, as it rained very little in the winter making the potato harvest particularly difficult and costly, further affecting production costs that are already 30% higher than they used to be.

Lamb Weston announces the launch of its Champion Chips, a brand-new competition that celebrates those brilliant food service and hospitality chefs that see possibilities in potatoes! Think you can pimp up the nation’s favourite side dish?

La Asociación de Desarrollo Local Icod de los Trigos- San Juan de la Rambla cree que las reuniones y movilizaciones de los agricultores de la isla son tremendamente necesarias para reivindicar un precio justo de nuestra papa, además de propiciar la autonomía de nuestra gente del campo.

The brain controls our body’s lysophospholipids, which in turn control a programme that activates nutritional intake / specific inhibitors of lipid synthesis could serve as new obesity therapies / publication in 'Nature Metabolism'

El índice de precios de los alimentos de la FAO se situó en junio de 2022 en un promedio de 154,2 puntos, es decir, 3,7 puntos (un 2,3 por ciento) menos que en mayo, lo que representa su tercer descenso mensual consecutivo, si bien aun así se encuentra 29,0 puntos (un 23,1 por ciento) por encima de su valor de hace un año.

The price paid to HZPC Holland’s seed potato growers for the 2021 harvest is EUR 33,70 (about USD 35) per 100 kilo. This is slightly above the forecast price of EUR 33,10 (about USD 34.7) published last spring.

Mid-May, many potato growers in North-western Europe were hoping for an end of season with prices around EUR 30/100 kg, but rain brought a stop to that hope…

El consejero de Agricultura, Ganadería y Desarrollo Rural, Gerardo Dueñas, se ha reunido con los representantes de la Organización Interprofesional de la Patata de Castilla y León (Oipacyl). La finalidad es conocer de primera mano la realidad de esta asociación, única en España, y evaluar sus necesidades y futuros retos.

Según se recoge en una reciente publicación de la Interprofesional de la Patata de Francia, la mejora de rendimientos de la patata, en las últimas cuatro décadas, ha sido muy inferior al del resto de cultico.

EnWave Corporation announced that it has received a signed purchase agreement from Fungaria Snack Ltd. ("Fungaria") for a 10kW Radiant Energy Vacuum ("REV™") dehydration machine to be located at their production facility in Budapest, Hungary.

Last week more than 2,700 farmers and growers from across Europe attended Grimme's first ever Farm Days event, with six machines taking centre stage at the Grimme farm in Cappeln Germany.

Damien Gibson, Director Global de la Categoría de Manzanas en TOMRA Food, analiza en este artículo los retos a los que se enfrentan las plantas de empaquetado de manzanas y explica cómo las soluciones de TOMRA Food ayudan a este tipo de empresas.

Mondelez International Inc plans to reopen a potato-chip plant on the outskirts of Kyiv next week which was closed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a spokeswoman said.