Potato News from Asia

August 23, 2010

Frito-Lay India launches 'Kurkure Spend Time with the Family Program'

A new advertising campaign for Frito Lay India's Kurkure snack encourages people to spend time with their families.

August 23, 2010

Indian Scientists develop protein rich potato

A genetically engineered, protein-enriched potato is being readied for commercial field-testing in India, scientists said.

August 20, 2010

Profile: Managing Director McCain Foods India KS Narayanan

Potato evangelist is probably a better descriptor for the managing director of McCain Foods India Pvt. Ltd, the Indian arm of the privately owned Canadian firm that makes one out of every three French fries consumed in the world. Narayanan never misses...

August 20, 2010

CPRI tells Indian Potato farmers to switch to heat tolerant potato varieties

With the mercury level steadily rising across India, potato growers need to switch to new varieties of heat-tolerant seeds for saving their crops, agriculture scientists have suggested.

August 20, 2010

New Potato Research Center to be set up in West Bengal

A centre of the Shimla-based Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) will be set up in West Bengal's West Midnapur district to make quality potato seeds favourable to the state's climatic condition available to the farmers.

August 17, 2010

Pakistan to import potato from India to reduce shortages due to floods

In the wake of anticipated fear of acute shortage of potato crop in Pakistan as a consequence of devastation of its large quantity in potato growing areas of Kyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (KP) province, first consignment of Indian potato, comprising 20 to 25 truc...

August 10, 2010

US export of fresh chip-stock potatoes to Japan reaches record levels

A total of 1,909 metric tons of fresh US chipping potatoes were shipped to Japan under the February – June 2010 shipping window.

August 04, 2010

La humilde papa puede proveer electricidad a millones de personas, según científicos de Israel (Video)

Más de 1,6 millones de personas en el mundo tienen poco o ningún acceso a la electricidad y la mayoría no tienen forma de acceder a tecnologías como como la iluminación eléctrica, los teléfonos móviles o los televisores. Sin embargo, científicos de una...

July 22, 2010

Sri Lankan potato producers pleased with US cultivars

The United States Potato Board (USPB) Team Seed conducted a market visit to farms and growing regions in Sri Lanka during May 2010. Sri Lankan producers growing US varieties are unanimous in their approval of cultivars and selections sourced from the U...

July 20, 2010

China vows to stop restaurant reuse of cooking oil

Chinese call it "gutter oil"- a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors - and it's being used widely in the country's eateries.Recycled food oil is China's latest food-safety scandal that has worried consu...

July 06, 2010

Cold storages' release cools down potato prices in West Bengal

With close to about 25 per cent of potatoes having been released from cold storages across West Bengal, potato prices, which had inched up by Rs 10-20 a quintal last week, dropped on Tuesday. The wholesale price of the tuber (Jyoti variety) dropped Rs ...

July 06, 2010

Heat and saline resistant potato varieties reach commercial stage

After nearly 30 years of research, Professor David Levy has developed a strain of potato that can be grown in hot, dry climates, and irrigated by saline water sources.Professor David Levy's windowsill is lined with potatoes of numerous shapes and sizes...

July 01, 2010

ADM plans expansion in China, opens office

Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced two key actions that advance its strategy for profitable growth in China and throughout Asia: the opening of a Beijing office;and a strategic investment in, and memorandum of understanding with...

June 30, 2010

Japanese companies save time and money with US Dehydrated potatoes

Where Japanese companies are trying to gain a competitive advantage, dehy fits in nicely as the economic climate changes! Fewer people are eating out in Japan, opting instead to shop in delis and supermarkets more.

June 30, 2010

Wendy’s/Arby's to re-enter Japan

Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. is ramping up international expansion plans with a proposed re-entry into the Japanese market, the company said Wednesday.The proposed restaurants are to be co-branded Wendy’s/Arby’s locations and feature menus offering signat...

June 25, 2010

Científicos israelíes diseñan baterías que trabajan con papas cocidas

Investigadores israelíes anunciaron la creación de una batería eléctrica a base de patatas cocidas que promueven como una solución asequible y eficaz para los países subdesarrollados. Yissum Research Development Co, empresa afiliada de la Universidad ...

June 23, 2010

Irish Snack manufacturer Tayto gets a taste of Chinese market

Chinese consumers will soon be enjoying the taste of Tayto crisps.The Irish snack has undergone a major makeover for its Asian adventure.Businessman Wei Quoinhas has struck an agreement to deliver the iconic Irish crisp to 1,200 outlets in Shanghai, wh...

June 17, 2010

New Potato product? Potato batteries for the developing world

Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, introduces solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes. This simple, sustainable, robust device can potentially provide an immed...