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By constructing its own mini tuber storage facility, seed potato company Agrico is taking the next step in its professionalization. Agrico currently rents a separate area from an affiliated grower for its mini tubers.

Ellips, a manufacturer of optical grader equipment for individual potatoes, highlights the top challenges in potato grading and how to tackle them.

Dutch potato exports are not currently busy at all. February is never that wild. Things are quieter to most major destinations in West Africa. Those countries have their own crops, so they've closed their borders.

The potato is the third-largest food crop in the world and therefore an important part of our diet. Meijer Potato believes that everybody deserves to enjoy food.

La empresa holandesa Agrico es un actor global en el campo de las variedades de patatas de siembra y de consumo. El desarrollo de variedades innovadoras que se adapten a varios climas y mercados constituye una parte esencial de la empresa.

North-western European Potato Growers (NEPG): Alle inputs hebben de afgelopen maanden stijgende prijzen laten zien, gaande van energie tot meststoffen, gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en bouwprijzen, maar ook machines en reserveonderdelen!

Op verzoek van de Nederlandse Aardappel Organisatie (NAO) heeft de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) de mogelijkheden voor export van Nederlands pootgoed naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk (VK) nagegaan.

APH Group, distributeur van landbouwmachines, heeft per 1 januari 2022 de activiteiten van Agri 2.0 CIS B.V. (hierna: Agri 2.0) overgenomen in Rusland en Oekraïne.

APH Group, distributeur van landbouwmachines, heeft onlangs meerdere miljoenencontracten gesloten in China, Roemenië en Saudi Arabië. Het betreft hier een drietal nieuw te bouwen frites fabrieken waarbij APH Group de bewaar-, sorteer- en wasserij installaties gaat leveren.

The NEPG has ended the 2021 campaign with a production of 22.7 million tons, which represents a decrease of 3.4% in relation to the previous one, although it remains 2.7% above the average of the last five years.

Agrico presented two new varieties during an intimate Meet and Greet at its breeding and research farm, Agrico Research in Bant.

The Potato Days of HZPC are dedicated to the future of the potato. A future in which the potato provides an important contribution to the food security in the world and helps to combat climate change.

The potato sector has the ability to significantly contribute to a sustainable food supply worldwide. HZPC will therefore broadcast an inspiring programme on 3 November during Potato Days 2021 Live.

Hotraco, the system creator of automation systems, has named Berta Danielsdóttir as Chief Commercial Officer. Berta will report directly to Ard Zweep, Chief Executive Officer.

Seed Potato company HZPC realized that the financial year 2020/2021 would be difficult. Last year, the potato distributor was operating in a global economic recession.

HZPC developed an online tool with which customers can easily convert their knowledge and experience into tailor-made solutions – a digital calculator that finds the potato variety that gives the highest yield: the new Even Greener tool.

As of September 2021, RMA-Techniek will take over the product SolEye. SolEye is a product to objectively measure frying colour, developed by Solentum B.V. (a former subsidiary of HZPC Holding).

Potato growers and agricultural machine builders in Biddinghuizen have come up with a way to deal with colorado beetles without using pesticides.