News On Dehydrated Potato Products

Exports of US potatoes and products for July 2009 through June 2010 (MY09/10) totaled 1,229,853 metric tons (MT) valued at $1,172,702,250.This is a decline of 0.67 percent in volume and 2.69 percent in value from the previous year’s record levels.

El reporte incluye la siguiente información: Producción de papa para el año 2009 Producción de papa durante el invierno Producción final de papa durante la primavera Producción de papa durante el verano Producción de papa durante el otoño Produ...

The USDA has recently published their annual potato summary, reviewing the 2009 potato crop.Potato production in 2009 is revised to 431 million cwt, down slightly from the estimate in the January Crop Production 2009 Summary but 4 percent above the 20...

BASF Plant Science has identified the root cause of the starch potato comingling in northern Sweden. During the course of company's regular internal quality assurance measures in August, BASF Plant Science discovered 47 Amadea plants in Amflora propaga...

Het Duitse Emsland Group heeft in haar laatste nieuwsbrief laten weten dat telers verplicht zijn hun contracten aan de fabriek na te komen.

Who says a box of pancake mix can only make pancakes?

Final disposition numbers show Idaho’s 2009 potato crop totalling 133 million cwt, an increase of 1.1 percent from earlier estimates.

De vraag naar aardappelzetmeel uit de Europese Unie is sterk gestegen.

Potato starch manufacturer KMC announces that its board of directors has named Nicolai Hansen to serve as the company's Chief Executive Officer.

La Comisión Europea (CE) ha confirmado hoy el cultivo de una variedad de patata genéticamente modificada no permitida por la UE en campos de Suecia y ha pedido explicaciones a la compañía responsable, la alemana BASF. El portavoz comunitario de Sanida...

The German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Rainer Brüderle, today helped to start the harvesting of the Amflora potatoes in Zepkow in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Together with BASF’s Chairman Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht an...

China’s fresh potato production in MY09/10 is estimated at 64 million metric tons (MMT), a 10 percent decrease from the 71 MMT in MY08/09 due to unfavorable weather conditions, which resulted in record high potato prices domestically.

Starch manufacturers Lyckeby and Emsland Group have announced an agreement to form a joint venture, named SOLAM GmbH. The joint venture will specialize in the development and marketing of starches for paper and corrugated board. SOLAM will be based in...

El grupo químico alemán BASF ha solicitado a la Comisión Europea (CE) autorización para una segunda patata manipulada genéticamente "Amadea", cinco meses después de haberla logrado para "Amflora"tras años de espera. Con motivo del...

China announced Monday it would investigate whether the European Union (EU) members subsidized exports of potato starch to China, and if so to what extent the subsidies had harmed domestic industries.

China anunció este lunes que investigará si los países miembros de la Unión Europea (UE) subvencionaron las exportaciones de almidón de patata a China, en cuyo caso analizaría la repercusión de dichos subsidios en la industria doméstica. Se trata de l...

Danish Potato Starch manufacturer KMC provided earlier this month the following market outlook on the global potato starch sector. The outlook contains a stark warning: there may be a shortage of EU potato starch ahead:

Jorge Yanovsky, es Vicepresidente del 1º Foro Argentino de Biotecnología;y uno de los disertantes de las jornadas “Chaco, Potencia Agroalimentaria”, que se llevarán a cabo mañana en la ciudad de Las Breñas, organizadas por el partido Lealtad Popular, q...