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Confirming its position as the leading complete packaging solutions provider, tna is pleased to announce its acquisition of The Cadalec Group.World-renowned specialists in electrical and control system integration, The Cadalec Group bring over 20 years...

Desde 2008, la fecha de hoy (29 de junio) fue escogida como un día especial para honrar a la papa y a sus agricultores. Por eso, ayer jueves, con una degustación gastronómica, exposiciones y un acto protocolario, se dio inicio a las 18h00, a las celebr...

In a bid to enhance shelf-life of potatoes, Gujarat will soon set up its first potato dehydration centre in Palanpur town with a handling capacity of 500 kg per hour.

Dutch tests on a new strain of potato blight similar to that discovered for the first time in the UK last year have shown some isolates have reduced sensitivity to the common active fluazinam used to control the disease.

The disease risk in potatoes has increased with the wet weather over the last few weeks. Luckily, so far no late blight hasbeen found in Manitoba.

Everyone who attended the World Potato Congress last month agreed that WPC 2012 was a huge success. Now, speaker presentations and video's are available online. It's a great opportunity to have another look at the great presentations or take a look at...

Two adult potato psyllids were found on yellow sticky cards that were collected June 19 from a Twin Falls County potato field, according to an alert issued Tuesday by University of Idaho Extension staff.

Solynta's fast hybrid potato breeding program one of the three nominees for the 2012 Food Valley Award. Potatoes are the world's third most important food crop after rice and wheat. They are significantly more efficient in their use of water and nutri...

During the 373 days he spent in a Lebanese jail on allegations he tried to export rotten potatoes to Algeria, Henk Tepper says the day his daughter graduated from high school was among the most difficult. The farmer from New Brunswick spoke for the fi...

East African farmers, who are mostly small-scale, currently select their seed potatoes from the mass of harvested potatoes. That results in lots of virus diseases and potato brown rot, as well as low yields of an average of 10.5 tons per hectare. Tha...

Today, Lamb Weston / Meijer - manufacturer of deep frozen potato products - published its online sustainability report for 2010 and 2011. The company aspires leadership in three sustainability themes: water, energy and potato. The report illustrates t...

La empresa MA.DE.CO. , que trabaja en Grotte di Castro, Tuscia Viterbese (Italia), está orgullosa de lanzar una patata nueva e innovadora, llamada "Delizia Blu"(delicia azul) y se ha definido como una "patata sana"por la empresa, ya...

Potato crops in Britain are facing high blight pressure this season, demanding the best possible protection under extremely challenging application conditions.

Researchers cooperate to develop nutritious, high-yielding, and more disease-resistant potatoes for food-insecure indigenous communities in Colombia.

Fast food company Burger King Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BKW) went public earlier last week, after going private in late 2010. Rather than going through the IPO route, the company was listed in the NYSE through a merger with an existing public stock, Justice...

The Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website at www.apre.org

Inventure Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty food marketer and manufacturer, today announced it has been added to the Russell 3000® Index and Russell 2000® Index when Russell Investments reconstituted its comprehensive set of U.S. and glob...

The biggest potato conference ever held in Britain, World Potato Congress 2012, took place in Edinburgh in May, attracting more than 800 delegates from over 50 countries to discuss the world’s third most important food crop.