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"La papa (Solarum tuberosum) es originaria de América", dice a IPS Juan Izquierdo, oficial de producción vegetal de la oficina regional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), tratando de imprimi...

Floods and market conditions have not made for an easy year at Archer Daniels Midland, but a 61 per cent slump in Q4 profits is not as grave as it seems since last years figures were propped up by one-off costs. Patricia Woertz, ADM chairman and CEO ...

Savoury snack foods including crisps, popcorn and nuts now contribute less fat and saturated fat to the diet of the country's teens than three years ago. An analysis of the Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance (IUNA) National Teen Food Survey 2008 sh...

France is considering plans to impose a "fat tax"by more than trebling the VAT on junk food to tackle soaring obesity levels. Ministers are being urged by health experts to raise VAT from 5.5 to 19.6 per cent on all foods considered to be &q...

Wendy's International, Inc., the third largest U.S. hamburger chain, said Tuesday after the markets closed that second quarter earnings fell from last year, hurt by declining sales and rising commodity costs as well as restructuring charges and expense...

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, the largest potato company in North America with annual sales exceeding $2 billion, and Ochoa Foods, a privately owned potato processing company based in Boise, Idaho, announced today that they have entered into a new joint ...

City tax incentives are on the way for Kettle Creations, a company planning to open a $25 million food manufacturing facility in Gateway Commerce industrial park in Lima, Ohio.Kettle Creations, a new company, will manufacture 50 million pounds of mashe...

Greenvale AP has strengthened its board with a number of new appointments. Brian Macdonald has become financial director, having notched up 25 years at Scottish and Newcastle plc, initially covering its UK trading and production businesses, then overs...

Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. Nearly every possible combinatio...

Policies to get small farmers involved in saving, preserving, producing, marketing and genetically improving potatoes should take precedence over the age-old dispute between Chile and Peru about where potatoes originated, experts from both countries s...

Agriculteur à Saint-Vougay (29), Richard Cadiou se lance cette année dans la culture de plants de pomme de terre. Depuis son installation en 1982, il produisait des pommes de terre de consommation qui étaient directement livrées chez un négociant, avec...

El Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino terminó ayer el proyecto de norma de calidad para la patata en el mercado nacional, que sustituirá a la norma en vigor de 1986 y que será publicado próximamente, después de que se acabe el período ...