Potato News

Starting April 26, Cal-Organic Farms will start shipping freshly harvested, new crop red and gold potatoes to customers from its facility in Lamont, CA. The company’s organic rainbow fingerling variety is set to ship mid-May and organic russets will follow in mid-June.

Looking at the Japanese snack market, Japanese potato chip products are a highly active category. Compared to Chinese potato chip products, Japanese potato chips are worth learning from in terms of flavor selection and dimensions.

Du Haotian, a postgraduate student at Northwest A&F University in northwest China's Shaanxi province, has helped a township in the province develop its potato industry by introducing new varieties cultivated by his school.

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is excited to share with potato farmers and industry partners the launch of a new podcast, Spudchat.

In Namibia, retailers and importing agents have spent NAD (Namibian Dollar) 120.1 million (USD 8.4 million) between 2019 and 2020 on importing washed potatoes to meet local demand.

Potatoes South Africa (PSA) has launched a bold new awareness campaign in a bid to create perspective about the resilience and performance of the potato industry’s stakeholders in the country, especially in the context of South Africa recently marking the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 disruption.

Potato Processor Lamb Weston's British Chip (Fries) 'The Dukes of Chippingdom', has picked up the Silver Award for the Best New Side of Plate/Ingredient Foodservice Product in the 2020 – 2021 British Frozen Awards.

Flake production is not only a potato process for specialists. More and more potato processors see it as an ideal solution for their sustainability improvement.

Si bien el mercado de las patatas industriales se paralizó en gran medida durante la pandemia de coronavirus, el mercado de la patata de mesa en la región alemana de Baviera está en auge.

La nueva campaña de la patata comenzó hace quince días para Pomleg, con sede en el MIN de Rungis. Empezamos justo antes de Semana Santa; va bastante bien.

Agricultores de la provincia de Esmeraldas, organizaciones de productores y autoridades del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, el INIAP y el CIP realizaron la siembra participativa de 10 variedades de camote.

La Empresa de Cultivos Varios de Horquita, del municipio de Abreus en Cienfuegos, aprovecha los dos mejores meses de la campaña de primavera para plantar de otros surtidos agrícolas las 350 hectáreas (h) que habían sido destinadas a la papa.