Potato News from France

La creían venenosa, desconfiaban de su aspecto y de algunos incómodos efectos digestivos. Pero un hombre, Antoine Parmentier, se consagró a propagandizar sus virtudes. Finalmente popular, este producto americano, exótico, se convirtió en la base de la dieta.

The two largest European Supermarket groups, Tesco and Carrefour are announcing their intention to enter into a long-term, strategic alliance.

Bayard Distribution is a family business located in the Hauts-de-France. The company produces about 12,000 tons of potatoes annually.

El pasado 23 de octubre de 2017, la compañía francesa firmó la adquisición del 100% de la Sociedad de Productores Bretones (SPB) y de sus filiales: Gopex Distribution y Bret Seeds.

Agricultural Machinery manufacturer Grimme will present at the Potato Europe in France several practical improvements of its planting, harvesting and handling technology.

Potato Processing International magazine will host a seminar on September 15, starting at 2:30 PM, during the Potato Europe event in France.

Dewulf~Miedema will present their innovations in potato cultivation technology at Potato Europe in Villers-Saint-Christophe, France.

France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks.

With the dealer restructuring in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany complete, Dewulf & Miedema continue their dealer restructuring in Western Europe with the North of France.

In France, a major three year long campaign to promote the consumption of potatoes just started.

Tong Peal Engineering is enhancing its business in the French market by appointing a full time Sales Executive to service new and existing customers.

Florimond Desprez, an independent family‐owned company, has acquired Germicopa, the leading French potato seed company and world leader in firm flesh potato varieties.

Es una deliberación que busca consolidar una red regional para intercambiar experiencias y generar acciones conjuntas que aumenten las sinergias en la investigación agrícola, las políticas, las inversiones y las instituciones en América Latina y el Caribe.

The Guatemalan potato moth is wreaking havoc in potato crops in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Control measures exist, but are toxic or financially out of reach. Now there's a promising alternative: a biopesticide based on a virus that infects the moth.

Fast Food chain McDonald's France has promised to serve "100% French"French Fries before the end of the year in all its 1260 restaurants.

El proteccionismo francés llega a las mesas del Mcdonald's. De aquí a noviembre de este año en los McDonald's del país sólo se comerán french fries. Nada de patatas fritas a base de tubérculos belgas, como servían ahora algunos de sus restaurantes.

Por Jorge Luis Alonso G., Red Electrónica de la Papa, Redepapa Los productores de papa de Francia aumentaron el rendimiento de sus cosechas (50 t/ha en promedio) gracias a una combinación de asociación, tecnología e inversión, pero sobre todo, a su pre...

The food industry could be approaching a time when packaging will be completely eliminated from the supply chain, according to Olivia Milan-Grobois, business unit director, Sial Group.