Noticias sobre las Tendencias Alimentarias de Bélgica

The Almond Company purchased a TOMRA 5C premium optical sorter which has been operating at its Madera, California facility for the past six months with excellent results.

Mathijs Peters, responsible for EU Corporate Affairs at PepsiCo was elected President of the European Snacks Association asbl (ESA) for a two-year term. He succeeds Dr. Rolf Nilges, Intersnack’s Director of Research & Development and External Affairs.

Declaración de Copa-Cogeca, Europatat, Euroseeds y Starch Europe sobre las nuevas técnicas genómicas en el mejoramiento de la patata.

El 10 de junio la comunidad europea de la patata se reunió virtualmente para el Congreso Europatat 2021. Bajo el lema 'Mantente
conectado - nuevas estrategias para el sector de la patata '

We can now confirm that INTERPOM will go ahead! From 28 to 30 November 2021, the global potato sector will be able to gather in Kortrijk Xpo, as it used to do in the past.

Dewulf and Agrointelli have announced that they will be working together to explore the benefits of using autonomous machines in potato cultivation. A first project will see the combination of the autonomous Robotti platform with a 4-row Miedema CP 42 cup planter.

Lamb Weston / Meijer's commitment to preserving nature, and its resources, while caring for neighbors contributes to their overall growth and success. These shared virtues and values are just another reason why their partnership with TOMRA Food makes for a perfect match.

According to Vandamme, mechanical cooling is an excellent basis for long-term storage of potatoes without loss of quality. In addition, cooling, in combination with 1,4SIGHT, is a suitable alternative to chlorpropham as a sprout inhibitor.

Una buena noticia para el sector de la patata: la Comisión Europea acaba de fijar oficialmente el valor de 0,4 ppm como límite máximo de residuos temporal (LMRt) en (productos de) la patata.

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, is excited to announce that the 2021 edition of its annual Congress will be held on Thursday, 10th of June in a virtual format.

No one could miss it in the media last year: the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Belgian potato sector hard.

The total organic area in the European Union (EU) was 13.8 million hectares in 2019, corresponding to 8.5% of the total utilized agricultural area. This represents an increase of 46% between 2012 and 2019.

RUCIP European Committee -  the organisation that looks after the rules and practices of the Inter-European Trade in Potatoes - has a new internal organisation and new leadership.

Mejoras revolucionarias en los sensores y en las herramientas de TOMRA Insight hacen que los procesadores optimicen sus resultados.

El NEPG (Productores de Patatas de Europa Noroccidental, por sus siglas en inglés) estima que la cosecha total será de 27,9 millones de toneladas esta temporada si se cosechan todas las patatas que aún están bajo tierra.

Tras el exitoso lanzamiento que TOMRA Sorting Recycling hizo el año pasado, TOMRA Insight está ya disponible para los clientes de TOMRA Mining, TOMRA Food y Compac, empresa de la familia TOMRA Food. La plataforma se ha mejorado con nuevas características y funcionalidades para todos estos sectores.

La semana pasada, la Asociación de Patata de Europa noroccidental (NEPG), que agrupa a los productores de Francia, Alemania, Países Bajos, Reino Unido y Bélgica, anunció la estimación de la cosecha de patatas para la temporada 2020/21.

An overview of the Belgian agricultural landscape. The cropmap shows the main crop type on each individual field cultivated in the 2020 growing season and is openly available via an interactive online viewer.