Aardappelketen

Private label companies continue to introduce better-for-you products and more attractive packaging, all while being easier on consumers’ pockets. Their efforts seem to be working, since recent Mintel research found that 44% of grocery shoppers believe store brand products are of better quality today than they were five years ago.

AUSVEG Chairman John Brent today said that vegetable growers in Queensland had been hit hard by the recent floods and long term Federal Government assistance was now needed for many to survive the winter growing season.

Thousands of farmers have attended the opening day of the 2011 LAMMA show - Britain's largest machinery event.

The damage bill from flooding on Tasmanian farms is expected to run into millions of dollars.

La deficiencia de hierro es el trastorno nutricional más común del mundo: afecta al 50 por ciento de las mujeres embarazadas y al 40 por ciento de los niños en edad preescolar en los países en desarrollo, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Debi...

AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy today said that despite recent media reports to the contrary, there is no need for Australia to import more vegetables due the flood crisis in Queensland.

In dit project hebben PPO en HLB onderzoek uitgevoerd om de schade door trichodoriden zoveel mogelijk te beperken.

Papa Andina es una iniciativa regional coordinada por el CIP. Su objetivo principal es promover sistemas de innovación que favorezcan a agricultores pobres dentro de las cadenas productivas, a fin de mejorar su seguridad alimentaria, facilitar el acces...

België en Nederland mochten afgelopen winter geen aardappelen meer naar Rusland exporteren.

Phytophthora zorgde in de aardappelteelt in 2010 voor veel blad- en stengelaantastingen. Ondanks de hoge ziektedruk vallen de problemen met knolziek relatief mee.

Het ministerie van landbouw in Libanon zal dit jaar beginnen met de export van 50.000 ton aardappelen naar de EU.

In West Bengal, 7,000 bags or 4,200 tonnes of potatoes, valued at Rs 50 lakh were left to rot on the open ground today because of a dispute between a cold storage facility and the state government.

His mono-food 20 Potatoes a Day Diet successfully behind him, Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, is turning to potato recipes he wished he could have eaten during his two-month regimen.

De aardappeloogst in Algerije in 2010 groeide met 20% t.o.v. 2009. Rachid Benaissa, minister van landbouw geeft aan dat men in 2010 een volume van 3,2 miljoen bereikte.

Living Foods (NL) en Corpoica (Col.) zijn onlangs in Colombia gestart met een gezamenlijk project ten behoeve van zogenaamde snelle vermeerdering van Mini-Knollen uit vitro-materiaal.

The potato industry firmly believes that the health of our nation's children is a top priority and applauds efforts to improve children's nutrition.