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DOWNS introduces CropVision®: an Optical Sorter for Unwashed Potatoes, evaluates and categorizes potatoes using HD cameras combined with AI and splits them into three streams, at a capacity of up to 100 tons per hour.

En el marco de los diferentes trabajos que lleva a cabo el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, se está desarrollando una experiencia para la plantación de papa en zonas cordilleranas de San Juan y San Rafael.

Utz Brands, Inc. announced that its subsidiary Utz Quality Foods, LLC has entered into a definitive agreement with Snak-King Corp. to acquire certain assets related to the Vitner's brand for a total purchase price of $25 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Qu Dongyu, launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables on the 15th of December 2020.

Se prevé que este año la superficie total de producción de patatas en Brasil aumentará un 3,4 porciento, impulsada principalmente por el segmento de la patata destinada a la industria procesadora, que se espera que vuelva a crecer después de mantenerse estable en 2020.

Starch-based gluten-free bread (formulations containing a mixture of corn and potato starch with hydrocolloids) are deficient in nutrients and do not contain health promoting compounds.

En Ucrania, justo antes del Año Nuevo, según los resultados de la auditoría, hicieron un descubrimiento inesperado: prácticamente no quedaban patatas en las instalaciones de almacenamiento.

Brazilian potato processor Bem Brasil Alimentos starts 2021 with a new president: Dênio de Oliveira

ESI Eurosilo, a Dutch engineering and contracting company specialized in storage solutions for non-free flowing bulk solids and large quantities, will construct an 88.000 m3 potato starch silo for Karup Kartoffelmel Fabrik in Denmark.

Record potato retail sales continued from October to December 2020, the second quarter of Potatoes USA’s marketing year 2021. All three months saw an increase in both dollar and volume sales, with the largest growth in December.

Given the unusual times of a global pandemic, the Idaho Potato Conference shifted from the annual in-person conference held in Pocatello to three days of virtual presentations.

Bangladesh is importing two blight resistant (GM) potato lines developed at Michigan State University for a field trial. Success will save 20% yield loss and Tk100C in fungicide cost.