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The Potato Council’s first estimate of total potato plantings for the 2013 crop year in Great Britain is 121,200 hectares.

Representatives from across Europe?s food supply chain have today announced the launch of a joint effort to tackle the major societal problem of food wastage via the publication of their Joint Declaration entitled, “Every Crumb Counts”.

Children across the United Kingdom have been harvesting new potato crops as part of the Potato Council’s primary school project, Grow Your Own Potatoes.

In the United Kingdom, the Potato Council is seeking to raise awareness for the new season crop, with a TV advertising burst to hit screens in July.

Irish Research Institute Teagasc hopes to begin planting out more than 5,000 potato plants in the next two weeks, in the second phase of its study into the environmental impact of blight-resistant genetically modified (GM) potatoes.

Snackex es la feria especializada en los sectores de los snacks salados y frutos secos más importante de Europa. Organizada por la Asociación Europea de Aperitivos (ESA), este evento bienal se celebra por primera vez en Gotenburgo (Suecia)

Baker Perkins will showcase its technology and services that enable snack manufacturers to take advantage of new market opportunities, at Snackex 2013

Want to learn more about Electrostatic flavour application? then make sure to visit Spice Application Systems at the Snackex in stand 125.

At Snackex, Lamine Lahouasnia, Head of Packaged Food Research at Euromonitor International, will provide a strategic insight and analysis on how retailer own brands are developing and what manufacturers are doing to keep one step ahead of private labels.

Leading global food packaging specialist, tna, will unveil its intelli-flav® model, the new addition to its ground-breaking seasoning range at Snackex 2013.

An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century

The Belgian potato processing industry has seen a spectacular growth during the last decades. The companies active in this sector have grown from 500.000 tons of processed potatoes in 1990 to 3,65 million tons of raw material in 2012.

Scientists from Aarhus University have tested whether extract of potato protein could be used to prevent scours (diarrhea) in young pigs – but the results produced by a foreign research group turned out to be non-reproducible.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their ...

Today, the brand new European Heinz Innovation Center in Nijmegen was officially inaugurated by His Royal Highness Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange who will become King of the Netherlands by the end of the month.

EUPPA, the European Potato Processors’ Association, is organising in Brussels its 1st Congress for the processed potatoes’ sector on 16th May 2013 in Brussels, which will be also an opportunity to celebrate the 50th anniversary of EUPPA.

Based on a survey among 123 of its members, the Belgian organisation PCA expects an 8% increase in the potato acreage in Flanders for the main crop, as well as an increase in the acreage of early potatoes of 7.5%. Potato farmers were expressing their p...

As Allan Stevenson steps down after five years as Chair of Potato Council and member of the AHDB Board, David Piccaver, a leafy salad producer from South Lincolnshire enthusiastically takes on this challenging and exciting role.