Potato News from India

Potato farmers in West Bengal are being forced to sell their produce at a much lower price as huge volumes of potatoes are lying at the cold storages.

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The Punjab government on Sunday announced freight subsidy for transportation of potato crop in domestic as well as export markets, but potato growers turned down the offer saying it would not bail them out.

For a long time, headlines on "potato"and "school lunches"usually addressed the new rules for school lunches discussed in the United States. Here is a different perspective on "potatoes as part of school lunches", from Wes...

As potato prices hit unexpected low levels in Punjab, growers have asked the state government to offer freight subsidy for marketing the tuber to other states in order to prevent mounting losses. Growers also warned of throwing potato on roads if state...

Former dabur India head of innovation Vikas Mittal has joined McCain Foods India as its MD. Mittal was head of innovation at Dabur in July 2011, prior to which he was executive VP (marketing) for the personal &home care division. Mittal has also w...

India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.

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Management at McCain Foods manufacturing facility in Mehsana hosted senior Canadian government officials who were on a recent trade mission to India to strengthen and advance bilateral trade between the two countries. Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of I...

Potato acreage in India is likely to drop by 15-20% in the new (winter) season. Farmers suffered last year due to a decline in prices following a higher production. According to an initial estimate, the losses could run into few thousand crores with Be...

The Indian packaging industry is set to rise by 15% every year due to growing consumption and demand for packaged products across the country, states the Indian Institute of Packaging in Hyderabad (IIP-H). The $13.5bn industry is expected to reach $18...

At the DLF Place mall in the upscale South Delhi neighborhood of Saket, shoppers and employees sit more or less side-by-side in a new “desi” food court, digging into traditional Indian dishes ranging from biryani to dosas to seekh kebabs. There's some...

The government today approved setting up of 15 more mega food parks with an investment of Rs 787.50 crore to provide better infrastructure to reduce the wastage, which has been estimated at 40% of the total fruit and vegetables production. The Cabinet...

ITC Food’s salted snack brand Bingo continues to tickle consumer taste buds with new variants. The latest to hit the shelves is Tangles, the fourth in its portfolio, after Bingo potato chips, Bingo Tedhe Medhe and Bingo Mad Angles. The product, which...

The potato capital of Gujarat - Deesa is facing acute price crisis with cost of the vegetable dipping to the lowest in a decade. The potato growing farmers and wholesale merchants are crying hoarse over the excess supply of potato from Agra, which has ...

As seed potato cultivation failed to fetch good price to the farmers in tribal Lahaul-Spiti, even after putting lot of hard work right from sowing to its selling, tribals have switched over to crop diversification, especially hybrid vegetable varieties...

With more than 1.2 billion people, India is the second most populated country on the planet and offers ample opportunities for markets of all stripes. So why not frozen food? Canada’s McCain Foods has annual revenue of $6.5 billion.

Farmers in India's potato-growing belt of Agra region, which accounts for more than 30 percent of the country's yield, are in peril as market prices continue to fall below the cost of cultivation. A bumper summer crop has not helped as they are under p...