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FieldView and xFarm Technologies announced a new partnership to connect their respective platforms.

Andalucía encara, aunque con bastante retraso provocado por las heladas, una campaña de patata nueva que será, a priori, «buena» pero que sufre la falta de productos fitosanitarios, señala Javier Boceta, director general de Meijer, empresa obtentora de variedades y líder en las patatas más sembradas y más demandadas por la industria nacional.

La Argentina es un centro de diversidad genética de papa. Crecen naturalmente numerosas especies silvestres y nativas que crean un gran acervo genético para la búsqueda de fuentes de tolerancias a diversos factores que le son adversos a la papa cultivada.

A finales de abril, a pesar de que nunca se puede hablar del 100%, se dará por finalizada la siembra de patatas en la región. En esta recta final y todavía sin datos oficiales, se da por hecho que se mantendrá la superficie de la campaña anterior, unas 16.600 hectáreas.

Eduardo Arroyo, presidente de la Asociación de Productores de Patata de Castilla y León, destaca que el cultivador de patata se ha dado cuenta que tiene que sembrar la variedad que se vende.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, a Canadian pension fund, acquires the majority stake in Mitolo Family Farms, the largest potato grower and packer in Australia.

Growers learn best from other growers. This has been proven by the future-proof seed potato cultivation project, an initiative to examine upcoming changes in potato cultivation with a group of growers.

Rivulis Pte. Ltd. announced that it has received full regulatory approval for the acquisition of multiple overseas subsidiaries which comprise the International Irrigation Business of Jain Irrigation.

According to Director of Operations in the Midwest for Black Gold Farms Keith Tinsey potato planting on their farm in Northcentral Indiana has started.

La Federación Nacional de Productores de Papas informó que se sembraron en el Sudeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires 32.724 has. durante la campaña 2023.

The Netherlands is committed to developing a sustainable and highly productive food system, with less use of fertilisers, water and pesticides, and more biodiversity and crop diversity.

(Indo-)Dutch companies providing solutions from planting material to processing equipment believe there are ways to establish more sustainable value chains, with the help of their technologies.

Un informe realizado por Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú (Senamhi) indica que durante este mes de marzo, en la sierra sur oriental y el altiplano, hay una disminución del crecimiento vegetativo de las plantaciones de papa y quinoa.

La cooperativa burgalesa Santa Isabel se guarda el 60 por-ciento de la producción con destino a Argelia por «miedo a no cobrar» debido al bloqueo comercial a España.

With weed control a key challenge for farmers, and reduced sensitivity to some herbicides a continuing problem. New product trials by FMC have demonstrated that effective controls are on the horizon.

Europatat warmly welcomes the Polish company LIND, which was established in 1996 as an investment of a Scottish family-run agricultural business with generations experience in the production of high-grade seed potatoes – J&WF Lind

It may be recalled how shocked Kenyans were when reports began filtering in the media last year January 2022 that the multinational food giant KFC has run out of ‘fries’ for customers following the non-delivery of potatoes from their overseas suppliers.

Pakistan and Republic of Korea are working jointly on seed potato production through Aeroponics technology and 2nd generation crop is ready to harvest at PARC-National Agricultural Research Centre Islamabad.