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Scientists have identified a version of a single gene involved in the heat stress response that is more active in potato types that can tolerate high temperature, potentially providing potato breeders a tool to make potato varieties less vulnerable to increased temperature.

Tong Engineering is pleased to announce new design options on its popular Fieldloader, including unique automatic transport-mode features, allowing users to make the machine even more compact for road transport.

TOMRA Sorting Food has unveiled a powerful new graphical user interface (UI) to help food processors get the most from their sorting systems by optimizing work flows and reducing waste to deliver improved profitability.

Cuarenta productores de la comunidad de Santa Cruz de Pichiú, en el departmento de Ancash, realizaron la primera cosecha de una gran diversidad de papas nativas, que habian perdido por diferentes factores.

Luego de conocerse la noticia que la productora de bebidas y alimentos Pepsico había cesado las operaciones de su planta ubicada en Florida, donde empleaba a 600 personas, la firma anunció que se trasladará a Mar del Plata, por la mayor “cercanía en la relación con los agricultores y proveedores de papa”.

El Acuerdo de Paz [entre la guerrilla y el Gobierno] permite que los páramos, antes vedados para el turismo bogotano y los empresarios de la papa como inversionistas extractivitas, ahora estén abiertos y sean atractivos.

Last week on 15 & 16 June, the Europatat Congress 2017 took place. Feedback on the congress and side events has been extremely positive.

An entrepreneur in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island has modified an automated restaurant french fry cutter to the North American market.

Calbee, Inc. the largest potato chip manufacturer in Japan, had some good news for Potato Chip Lovers in the country: it will resume sales of three brands of potato chips it suspended in April because of the potato shortage.

A survey done in 20 counties in Kenya released earlier this month, shows that Potato Cyst Nematode infestation has reached 80 to 100 per cent in some of the potato growing areas.

Seed potato growers on Kangaroo Island - an island off the mainland of South Australia - are successfully adopting a new strategy to manage the aphids and thrips pestering their crops, taking on expert advice from agronomists and entomologists to adopt integrated pest management for these insect pests.

El Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo y Fedepapa integraron una mesa de trabajo técnico, a través de la cual se les orientó sobre los mecanismos de defensa comercial que existen y que pueden solicitar ante esta cartera, en momentos en que han manifestado verse afectados por el aumento de importación de papa congelada.