Potato News

Earlier this month, Farm Frites has proposed a plan to establish a potato processing facility in Mar Del Plata, Argentina with an annual capacity of 70.000 tonnes of finished product. Most of the product is expected to be exported to Brasil through the Port of Mar del Plata.

Avebe and distribution partner Hortimex won the Polish 2016 award for most promising ingredient for the dairy industry.

Packaging and Processing Equipment Specialist tna will be using a combination of virtual and augmented reality at this year’s Interpack in Düsseldorf, Germany, to showcase its complete range of packaging and processing solutions.

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division has launched its latest variation of tasty potato goodness: Lay's Poppables – a new, delicious, multi-dimensional, light-textured potato snack

The Potatoes USA grower membership elected new leadership during its Annual Meeting held in Denver earlier this month.

The Canadian Horticultural Council has received over $274,000 in Growing Forward 2 funding to help expand markets for Canadian potatoes.

Potato Storage specialist Mooij Agro presents its latest innovation for box storage: the Mooij Climbing Airbag

El embajador del Reino de los Países Bajos en la Argentina, Martin de la Beij, dijo que su país “está a favor de un acuerdo entre la Unión Europea y el Mercosur” y confirmó los anuncios de inversiones locales que las empresas holandesas hicieron el último año, entre los que se encuentra la llegada de Farm Frites al Parque Industrial de Mar del Plata.

Potato Processing company M&F Ltd. - based in the United Kingdom - has closed after losing one of its main customers. M&F produced fresh cut and peeled potato products and supplied these to companies who further process these potatoes into ready meals for the UK’s major supermarkets.

From the HZPC Series 'Linking potato people': In conversation with Ms Amanda Ayres, KP Intersnack

The seed potato breeding company Interseed Potatoes GmbH located at Wittmund Germany, recently became the newest shareholder of Breeders Trust.

Since Monsanto took their genetically modified Newleaf /Naturemark potatoes of the market in 2001, no GM potatoes have been grown commercially in Canada. But Simplot's Innate potatoes are going to change that in 2017.

The Potatoes USA Board Members for 2017 were sworn in during its Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado.

tna utilizará una combinación de realidades virtual y aumentada en el Interpack de este año en Düsseldorf, (Alemania), para mostrar su gama completa de soluciones de envasado y procesamiento.

The Big Idaho® Potato Truck is back on America's highways promoting Idaho's most famous agricultural product, the Idaho® potato.

According to the data of Belgapom, the Potato Processing Industry in Belgium last year not only set a record for the amount of potatoes processed, but also a record for investments in the sector, with over 300 million euro (325 million USD) invested.

Para los agricultores de la provincia del Chapare, el tiempo del lavado y seleccionado de la papa se reduce en 21 veces desde la implementación de la Planta Procesadora de Papa, cuya capacidad es de lavar y seleccionar una tonelada del producto en 17 minutos. Antes, este trabajo se realizaba en seis horas.

Farmers in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, have increased cultivation of Irish potatoes more than four times over as the Government strives to meet the local demand of 15 million kilogrammes per year.