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Equipment manufacturer Heat and Control launched an Augmented Reality App, featuring the Heatwave Fryer. The app is available for download now - in time for the AusPack 2017

New Zealand potato chip manufacturer Heartland Potato Chips just launched a range of premium crafted kettle chips in four flavours.

Richards Pavelski and Donald Hamerski entered the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association (WPVGA) Hall of Fame Hall. The WPVGA Hall of Fame honors lifetime achievement in the development of Wisconsin’s potato industry.

The Kurdish Ministry of Agriculture predicts that farmers will plant more than 15,000 tons of seed potatoes in mid-February, increasing the amount of potatoes produced in the region.

Pepsur Marketing, a subsidiary of Pan European Potato Enterprise Limited, a company dedicated to the production and marketing of potatoes and seed potatoes, is introducing several new potato varieties to Spain and Portugal.

The office for Inspection and Quarantine in Jining city (Shandong province, China), recently handled papers regarding the import of seed potatoes from the United States, one of the very first introductions of US seed potatoes into China in recent years.

University of Idaho has hired a new director for its nuclear seed potato program and plans to build additional facilities to help her expand production.

Científicos de la Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UACAM) desarrollaron nuevas sustancias de origen biológico que controlan y eliminan plagas, como la langosta voladora, el psílido de la papa y el jitomate.

El Reglamento de la UE sobre la agricultura orgánica no permite el uso de organismos genéticamente modificados (OGM).Pero..... puede distinguirse un cultivo de papa cisgenico de un cultivo de papa que es el resultado de la producción convencional?

Under the provocative slogan 'Making the European Potato Trade great again! (it’s gonna be huge, it’s gonna be great, it’s true!)', the Europatat Congress 2017 will focus on two major current issues for the potato sector: plant health and trade.

La primera vez que supe sobre "papas nativas" fue en un restaurante pequeño en un complejo de containers en el barrio Chapinero de Bogotá llamado 60 Nativas. Era extraño: sus platos, todos servidos con papas fritas de diferentes colores, en apariencia sofisticados, fueron metidos en un menú accesible al bolsillo.

Un hecho que se suma a varios años de inestabilidad climatológica y otros factores que en ciertos casos perjudican el desarrollo del cultivo en todo el país.