Potato News from South America

May 19, 2008

Peru: women are the guardians of potato diversity

In South America’s Andes mountain region, indigenous women have traditionally been responsible for selecting, conserving and managing seed potatoes from the countless native varieties of the crop, thus ensuring diversity and continued production while ...
 Argentina
May 05, 2008

Gain report: Oilseeds and Products Argentina 2008

Post expects oilseeds production to increase slightly in the 2008/09 crop year. Soybean planted area is expected to remain at 2007/08 levels (17 million hectares). Areas planted in sunflower and peanuts are expected to increase by 5 and 10 percent, res...
May 01, 2008

Luego de la crisis de 2001, McDonald's vuelve a abrir locales en Argentina

La cadena de comidas rápidas sumará seis sucursales en la Argentina, después de un parate casi total. Los directivos revelaron que planean crecer en los próximos cinco años con un ritmo de hasta 10 aperturas anuales. La empresa se tomó un parate en la ...
April 29, 2008

PERU: Preserving the Potato in Its Birthplace

Peru is home to the world’s biggest germplasm bank of potatoes, containing seeds, tissue culture and plants from 5,000 varieties. The biologists, geneticists and agronomic engineers working with the non-profit International Potato Centre (CIP), which b...
April 09, 2008

Brazil Fast Food Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter/Year-End Results

Brazil Fast Food , a 580-outlet fast-food chain (Bob's) and the second largest hamburger fast-food chain operator in Brazil, announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2007.   Leveraging their branding and operational ex...
April 04, 2008

McDonald's cerro el 2007 en Colombia con 85.000 millones de pesos en ventas

La multinacional de comidas rápidas espera que en 2008 se puede dar un crecimiento de entre 35 y 40 por ciento, una previsión posible dado lo que ha ocurrido entre enero y marzo. Ese comportamiento del negocio estimula el plan de aperturas y remodelaci...
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April 02, 2008

Maquina productora de harina de papa reducira costo del pan

Sierra Exportadora logró obtener una de las harinas de papa más baratas del mundo, utilizando como insumo la papa nacional de segunda y de descarte, así lo informó el presidente ejecutivo de Sierra Exportadora Gastón Benza Pflucker, durante la presenta...
April 01, 2008

Hasta los locales de comidas rapidas estan afectados por el paro de los productores

Las principales cadenas del país ya sufren la falta de carne. Algunas debieron trasladar estos problemas a los precios. Las fábricas de papas fritas se vieron obligadas a cerrar momentáneamente   En el caso de Mc Donald’s, los mayores costos generados ...
March 31, 2008

McCain paraliza su planta industrial en Argentina

Mc Cain Argentina, con sede en Balcarce, emitió un comunicado. Suspensión de personal.   Balcarce, 30 de Marzo de 2008    A la Comunidad de Balcarce     Cómo empresa integrante de ésta comunidad, esperamos que el Gobierno Nacional y El Campo Argentin...
 ALAP
March 20, 2008

XXIII Congreso ALAP y VI Seminario Latinoamericano de uso y Comercialización de la Papa

                                         XXIII CONGRESO ALAP y VI SEMINARIO LATINOAMERICANO DE USO Y COMERCIALIZACIÓN DE LA PAPA   “PAPA: 8000 años de alimento sano”     Mar del Plata, 30 de noviembre al 6 de diciembre de 2008   CIRCULAR N° 3   E...
XXIII ALAP Congress and VI Latin American Seminar on Potato Use and Trade.
March 19, 2008

XXIII ALAP Congress and VI Latin American Seminar on Potato Use and Trade

Year 2008 has been declared as the “International Potato Year (IPY) by the UN as a way to focus world attention on the value of potato to fight hunger and poverty in developing countries. Within that context, Argentina has taken responsibility to orga...
March 18, 2008

Argentina: Bienvenida, papa extranjera

La Secretaría de Agricultura autorizó el levantamiento, hasta fin de año y en forma “excepcional”, de las medidas sanitarias que impiden la importación de papa, para paliar la escasez del producto provocada por las heladas que afectaron parte de la pro...
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March 18, 2008

Peruvians eat potato bread ('papapan') amid rising cost of wheat flour

Peru's military has begun eating bread made from potatoes, a native crop, to combat a rise in food prices partly fueled by the cost of loaves made from imported wheat, Defense Minister Antero Flores-Araoz said. Wheat prices have risen 35 percent in t...
March 08, 2008

McCain con su planta casi sin actividad por falta de papa

La fábrica McCain  se encuentra momentáneamente sin actividad debido a las adversas condiciones climáticas, que impiden a los productores cosechar la papa y acercar la materia prima a la planta que funciona sobre la ruta nacional 226.   Consultado un ...
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February 28, 2008

Making the most of potato patrimony

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February 22, 2008

NutraCea to supply healthy edible oil from rice bran

NutraCea is to enter the lucrative edible oil market, following the completion of its purchase of South America's largest rice bran oil processing facility. The firm, which has so far focused its activities on stabilized rice bran, said it will now sta...
February 14, 2008

Mejoran en Ecuador la calidad y los rendimientos de la papa

El Programa Nacional de Raíces y Tubérculos-Rubro Papa y el Departamento Nacional de Protección Vegetal de la Estación Experimental Santa Catalina del Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias INIAP, en colaboración con la Escuela S...
Peru's potato passion goes global
February 08, 2008

Peru's potato passion goes global

At harvest time in the highland village of Paucho, the first crop of potatoes are baked in a hole in the ground covered with hot rocks, in a ceremony called Watia - a homage to Pacha Mama, or Mother Earth. For thousands of years, the potato has been th...

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