Potato News from Asia

March 06, 2009

PPM Technologies Joins Forces with Flavorite Foods & Services Pvt. Ltd.

PPM Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier to the global food processing industry has joined forces with Flavorite Foods &Services Pvt. Ltd., an India based food machinery and technology supplier. Flavorite Foods &Services Pvt. Ltd., headquart...

March 06, 2009

USPB Partners with local Chinese Importer to host Successful US Dehy Bakery Seminar

Partnering with importers and distributors in country is critical to the success of increasing the use of US dehydrated potatoes in foreign markets and is an important strategy under the USPB long range plan. The USPB recently worked with Shanghai Yun...

March 05, 2009

Tough times are hurting fast food chains in China

Down an alley from a KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut here, Li Hong sat inside a dingy little storefront that serves full-course dinners for a dollar.A Western fast-food meal would have cost three times that much, said the young woman, who works as a sale...

March 05, 2009

Farm level puffed potato cube production project near Mumbai

Throughout the last two years, CTI volunteers Shiv Murty, Steve Laible, and Nancy Laible have been in contact with Prof. Narendra Shah at the Center for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bomba...

February 26, 2009

China: Potato and Frozen Potato Products 2009 (Gain Report)

China's fresh potato production in MY08/09 is forecast at 65 million metric tons (MMT), not much change from the previous year. In the past two years, about 10 percent of China’s potato acreage shifted to other plantings due to the growth in grains pro...

February 26, 2009

Punjab: 3000 MT of potatoes to be exported to Sri Lanka & Dubai

Punjab Cooperation Minister Captain Kanwaljit on Thursday revealed that with the facilitation of Markfed, Punjab 3000 Metric Tonne of potatoes would be exported to Sri Lanka and Dubai. Due to bumper crop of potato this year, farmers were finding it ve...

February 24, 2009

Indonesia plans to develop Jambi and North Sulawesi in production centers for French Fries

According to a report published by the Asia Pulse agency, Indonesian provinces Jambi and North Sulawesi that have good fertility and climate will be developed into potato production centers for french fries. In the province of Jambi in particular, pota...

February 23, 2009

Potato Starch Manufacturer China Essence says potato protein and potato fiber production expansion on schedule

China Essence Group announces that the plan to commence large-scale production of potato protein and potato fibre in FY2010 has been progressing well based on an internal pre-established timeline. The Company currently has in place production facilitie...

February 23, 2009

First potato export from China to Europe

Four thousand five hundred kilograms of potatoes will be exported to Germany at the price of 1.5 USD per kilogram, marking the first instance of potato exports from China to Europe, according to news from Ningxia Daily.Ma Shengke, an official of the Xi...

February 23, 2009

KFC Taiwan offers second meal at 50% discount

Kentucky Fried Chicken said yesterday its prices will go down starting today.KFC has to cut prices to get back customers won over by a rival fast food chain, McDonald's. The catch is a customer has to buy a second meal to enjoy the 50 percent discount ...

February 19, 2009

Japanese Consumers enjoying hamburger buns made with 25% US Dehydrated Potatoes

Zopf, a Japanese bakery which operates a retail bakery outlet, conducts internet bakery sales and supplies restaurants, recently launched a hamburger bun made with 25% US dehydrated standard potato flakes. The restaurant, “R-S”, along with others, is p...

February 12, 2009

Potato production in West Bengal may dip 30% due to late blight

Potato production in West Bengal is likely to be 30 per cent less than the previous year on account of late blight disease.Naren De, West Bengal agriculture minister said at a seminar organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) that potato ...

February 12, 2009

Chinese Potato Starch manufacturer China Essence Group reports 21% increase in 9M FY2009 Revenue

China Essence Group Ltd. (“China Essence” or the “Group”), one of the largest, leading integrated producers of potato products in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), today announced positive results for the third financial quarter ended 31 December...

February 09, 2009

Punjab to export 3,000 tonne potato to Middle East

Faced with crash in potato prices due to bumper crop in Punjab, the state sovernment has decided to export 3,000 tonne of potato to the Middle East besides selling another 2 lakh tonne to Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and...

February 06, 2009

Do Indian potato farmers benefit from Potato Futures?

The Indian government introduced futures trading with much fanfare in several commodities, including potato, as a tool to aid farmers to hedge their risks and help in getting better prices. But most in the industry dismiss the government claims with ...

February 05, 2009

Abrira McDonald's 175 tiendas en China y contratara mas de 10.000 empleados

McDonald's China anunció el día 4 un plan de expansión para abrir 175 nuevas tiendas y generar más de 10.000 empleos en la parte continental de China a pesar de la desaceleración económica global. La expansión es la mayor que lleva a cabo McDonald's ...

February 04, 2009

McDonald's slashes China prices by up to 33 percent

Mcdonald's Corp (MCD), the world's largest fast-food chain, has cut some prices by as much as a third in China where once booming economic growth has slumped amid the global financial crisis.In what the company calls "the best ever value meal comb...

February 02, 2009

Punjab Potato Farmers anxious as potato prices crash

Potato prices in Punjab have crashed to almost a seven-year low at Rs 1.5-2 per kg because of bumper production, leading to a glut in the market. Worried at the huge prospective loss, potato growers of the state have sought help from the Punjab govern...