Potato News

It's easy to forget the health benefits of the potato. The humble tuber has acquired a bad rap over the past decade, and it's high time for a tater comeback.

Productores de la Región de la Araucanía revisaron la inestabilidad del mercado de la papa acordando aplicar innovación en su procesamiento con el fin de elevar los precios de venta y fidelizar al cliente.

El Gobierno busca aprender de la experiencia exitosa de asociatividad en la empresa Nutripapa, la cuál está conformada por agricultores de la zona que invirtieron su dinero para agregarle valor a la producción del tubérculo.

More than 140 potato growers, advisors and agronomists met at Frederick Hiam Ltd, Tuddenham, Suffolk at the end of August, 2013, for Potato Council’s East of England Potato Day.

Sensor-based sorting systems pioneer TOMRA Sorting Solutions will demonstrate the breadth of its food applications at PACK EXPO 2013.

Key Technology announces a new corporate logo and an updated brand identity to reflect the strengths of both Key and Visys, who merged earlier this year.

Over the next 5 years, northwest European potato prices are expected to gradually climb and elevated price volatility set to persist, according to a new report by Rabobank.

Koppert is presenting the most recent test results for Proradix Agro at the PotatoEurope trade fair in Emmeloord, the Netherlands.

Sensor-based sorting system designer and manufacturer TOMRA Sorting Solutions has announced the appointment of Volker Rehrmann as its new head.

Sensor-based sorting systems pioneer TOMRA Sorting Solutions will showcase its whole potato capabilities at potato industry event Potato Europe.

Victorian potato growers will face fewer quarantine restrictions when selling their potatoes interstate.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 201.8 points in August 2013, nearly 4 points (1.9 percent) below its July value and 11 points (or 5.1 percent) less than in August 2012. Last month’s decline was the fourth in a row.

The European Union has granted Lebanon the right to export 50,000 tons of potatoes, reversing a decadelong export prohibition, the Lebanese Agriculture Ministry said Monday.

Ben Stein - Actor, Author, Economist, and Pop Culture Icon - will be headlining the Potato Expo 2014 in Texas.

The potato and potato processing industry is changing and Tummers is taking the lead in offering solutions in response. Up to now at most factories the potatoes have been unloaded at high capacity from the lorry, then sorted by size and stored in bunkers unwashed.

Investigadores de Inia trabajan para crear variedades de trigo y papa que se adapten al cambio climático. En total 380 genotipos de trigo y más de 200 genotipos de papa han sido evaluados para ver su tolerancia a la sequía y las altas temperaturas.

Snacks maker Frito Lay has been fined almost 18 million Turkish Liras (8.8 million USD) by Turkey’s competition board over single-product loyalty discount allegations.

La empresa Oficinas para el estudio del agro (OFIAGRO) acaba de publicar un informe que describe la situación de las familias que cultivan papa en una de las regiones más importantes del Ecuador.