Noticias

Tras una cosecha deficitaria en 2014, enviados del Ministerio de Agricultura intentan negociar precios con funcionarios del sector y el Gobierno de ese país del Reino Unido.

Gracias al apoyo de varias organizaciones pude asistir como periodista al XXVI Congreso bienal de la Asociación Latinoamericana de la Papa (ALAP), celebrado recientemente en Bogotá. Comparto con ustedes 35 aspectos que a mi juicio vale la pena destacar del congreso (JLA, Redepapa).

En el marco del Convenio MADR-CIAT, FUNDESOT se centró en determinar el impacto de sistemas de producción de papa bajo distintas condiciones ambientales y de manejo sobre la calidad del agua a través de la estimación de su huella hídrica y medición en campo de impactos. Estos son algunos de sus resultados.

Cuban visitors were given a focused tour encompassing Scottish Government’s SASA’s plant health facilities, a seed potato micro-propagation facility, and visited a leading Scottish seed grower and exporter.

Key Technology introduces a new Sanitary Belt Conveyor for transporting bulk foods on processing and packaging distribution lines.

Prince Edward Island Potatoes was delighted to have Col. Chris Hadfield, former Commander of the International Space Station helping to dig potatoes on Halloween morning against the backdrop of a clear blue sky and the beautiful West River.

TOMRA Sorting Food will exhibit its popular Genius modular sorting system at Gulfood Manufacturing, the largest food processing exhibition for the Middle East, Africa and Indian Sub-Continent.

TOMRA Sorting Solutions and Prologis, Inc., the global leader in industrial real estate, today celebrated the grand opening of a 12,600 square metre, BREEAM-certified, build-to-suit facility in Slovakia that is fully customized to accommodate TOMRA’s production and distribution requirements

Indian Potato chip, fries and flake manufacturers have urged the government to waive the 30% import duty on potato to improve supplies and check soaring prices at home.

Farm Frites Poland (FFP) is operating its French Fry Factory for 20 years. Hence the company is celebrating! FFP has prepared an special website with the highlights of these 20 years. PotatoPro made a selection to whet your appetite...

The market for Prince Edward Island potatoes is holding strong despite the recent reports from six Atlantic Canadian locations of needles found in potato shipments from an Island grower.

A multi-state research effort led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research to control the potato psyllid and reduce losses from zebra chip disease of potato will be recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Eric Halverson is the new chief executive officer of potato grower-shipper Black Gold Farms.

According to a news item in Freshplaza,the German company Lorenz Snackworld is planning to build a potato processing plant in the Tula region (Russia)

The Simplot potato processing plant in Nampa will again stay open longer than anticipated.

Gloria Bobo García, doctora por la Universidad Pública de Navarra (España), ha buscado alternativas al uso de sulfitos para evitar el pardeamiento de estos alimentos.

Farmers and cold storage owners in India (Agra, UP) have lauded the decision to lift the ban on import of seed potatoes.

Robert Tominaga, president of Heyburn, Idaho-based Southwind Farms, has seen demand for the fingerlings his company grows and other specialties rise dramatically in recent years.