News on The Potato Supply Chain

Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar region and China’s Snow Valley plan a USD 100–200 million potato processing complex. The project will produce fries, support breeding, and build logistics, boosting value-added output, jobs, and agricultural capacity.

Especialistas y colectivos proponen impulsar la cafeticultura regenerativa en la región de Xalapa como alternativa al cultivo de papa con agroquímicos, al que atribuyen contaminación de suelo y agua en al menos diez municipios

La estacionalidad de las regiones productoras y las dificultades climáticas en el sur de Brasil están impulsando los precios de la papa, en un mercado que premia la calidad y exige una gestión precisa del momento de cosecha.

Vive Crop Protection has announced the launch of Averland SM, a new in-season nematicide designed to provide United State growers with a more flexible and effective approach to managing nematodes and other pests in potatoes, and other crops.

LOCKWOOD Manufacturing becomes the first U.S. dealer for AVR Machinery, distributing its equipment in North Dakota and Minnesota via North Valley Equipment, expanding options for regional potato growers.

Diversos factores, tanto económicos, productivos, como del orden del comercio internacional contribuyen a una recalibración del sector de la patata local.

Potato growers in Colorado's San Luis Valley are facing a massive surplus of potatoes that they will have to dispose of, with estimates of over 100 million pounds that need to be destroyed.

Lincolnshire, the county that helped feed Britain during wartime, is back in focus as concerns grow over how much of its own food the United Kingdom can produce. The county will host a major new national farming event later this year.

Wageningen University & Research starts new field trials with genetically modified potatoes. The potatoes tested in these field trials have been genetically modified by adding or switching off multiple genes.

Kashiri, the Moon, saw the young woman through a window. The celestial body descended from the sky and found her eating soil molded into the shape of a tubercle. "What you are eating is mud, not yuca," the root of the cassava plant.

Growers who can no longer sell their surplus potatoes anywhere now have the option to dump their potatoes on their fields via a raw material declaration. They can register via the website of Boerenbond, which obtained the declaration for all Flemish growers.

Zoetermeer - The Dutch Potato Organisation welcomes the National Potato Week initiative, organised by No Waste Army. Additional attention for potatoes fits with the sector's ambitions to stimulate consumption and reduce food waste.

Royal Avebe has completed the potato campaign for the 2025 growing year. The potato starch factories in the Netherlands and Germany operated well and steadily during the campaign.

Stakeholders in the potato sector are calling for defined and time-bound policy measures aimed at strengthening farm incomes, expanding processing capacity and supporting export development.

Russia has lifted its ban on importing potatoes from Pakistan, allowing shipments from Punjab to enter the Russian Federation, effective April 8.

For over three decades, starting in the early 1990’s, the World Potato Congress Inc. has made its way around the globe, providing an avenue for networking and educational opportunities focused on all thing’s potato.

New trials in Europe will evaluate genetically modified potatoes with enhanced resistance to diseases such as late blight, aiming to reduce pesticide use and provide evidence for the regulatory debate on new genomic techniques.

Luego de las vacaciones y los movimientos del turismo, los precios de la papa en los principales mercados de Brasil ha visto un aumento considerable.