Potato News from Asia

June 05, 2012

Roquette acquires assets of leading Indian starch manufacturer to become leader in a fast growing market

Roquette, one of the global leaders in the starch industry announced today in Lestrem (Pas-de-Calais, France) the acquisition of the 3 starch production sites of the leading Indian starch manufacturer, Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols Ltd. Roquette takes the ...

June 04, 2012

Karnataka announces special package for potato growers

The Karnataka Government has announced a Rs 17.5-crore special package for potato growers of seven districts, who have suffered crop loss due to destruction by pests.

May 17, 2012

Lays Arabia 'Flavor Me': pizza flavored potato chips voted public's favorite

Lay's, the much loved potato chip and a leading brand from PepsiCo, today revealed the conclusion to its five month 'Flavor Me' campaign to find a new flavor chip as nominated by the public.

May 17, 2012

Workshop on Agriculture Supply Chain Study on Jute and Potato held in Bangladesh

Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) organized two dissemination workshops titled “Increasing efficiency and inclusiveness in Agriculture: Findings of the Jute and Potato supply chain study”.

May 16, 2012

Organic Food in China: Opportunities and Challenges

BioFach China 2012 will be held in Shanghai International Exhibition Center from May 24th to 26th. China is a very promising market for organic produce and is about to reach a phase of rapid growth, with an estimated value of 59.4 billion yuan by 2015,...

May 15, 2012

China's agri commodities bourse to launch potato futures

The Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE), one of China's two agricultural commodities exchanges, is considering introducing potato futures trading among a raft of new agricultural contracts set to launch later this year.

May 15, 2012

Potato prices increase by nearly 50% in India

The government may be pressing the panic buttons due to spiralling food prices, but it failed to read the writing on the wall five months ago when thousands of farmers across Haryana, Punjab and UP set ablaze hundreds of tonnes of potatoes on the streets to protest low prices and mounting losses due to a glut.

May 15, 2012

Bad weather, expensive fertilizers wreak havoc on Lebanese potato farmers

Akkar potato farmers suffered a serious blow this season after losing one third of their crops due to bad weather conditions, the local farmers association said Monday.

May 13, 2012

Pakistani potato growers suffer losses on export halt, lack of subsidies

Pakistani potato growers and farmers have been suffering colossal financial losses in the face of halt to export and lack of subsidies by the government to help them overcome their miseries.

May 08, 2012

Lotte Mart (South Korea) now offers table-stock potatoes imported from the United States

Lotte Mart, with 93 stores nationwide (the 3rd largest retail group in Korea), started to sell US fresh table-stock potatoes in all stores on April 20, announcing the new product in their in-house paper and in their newspaper ads.

May 06, 2012

Demand for Pakistani potato surges in India

The demand of Pakistani potato witnessed a surge in the Indian market, said an exporter on Thursday.

May 02, 2012

The sleeping potato giants are stirring

Over the past 30 years, potato production in China and India has increased at a dramatic rate, largely due to area expansion.

May 02, 2012

Potato prices almost double in a year in Bangladesh

Prices of potato have nearly doubled over the last year, despite having sufficient supply in the market and adequate stock in the country.

April 29, 2012

Bogra (Bangladesh) sees a bumper potato production

Farmers in Bogra (Bangladesh) could produce huge quantity of potato this year and they are also getting good price for it. The bumper production of potato as well as its good price has encouraged the farmers to go for more production next season. Pot...

April 29, 2012

India's biggest food processing plant ‘Himalya Fresh' inaugurated

The Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's biggest food processing plant ‘Himalya Fresh' near Vadnagar of Mahesana district today.

April 27, 2012

Pakistani potatoes rescue Indian consumers

With potato prices at Rs 20 a kg in retail in the domestic market, traders from northern India have started to import Pakistani potatoes that are 20% to 40% cheaper.

April 27, 2012

Pakistani potatoes 'rescue' Indian consumers

With potato prices ruling at Rs 20 a kg in retail in the domestic market, traders from Jammu and Kashmir have started importing potato from the two Line of Control (LOC) trade posts of Srinagar and Poonch.