Aardappelketen from Canada

The amount of reducing sugars in the potato are responsible for the colour formation of fried products. So if potatoes are too high in reducing sugars, they are not suitable for processing.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has unveiled a new crop of experimental potato varieties, but it will be years before any find their way to your supper table. The new varieties were actually created six years ago, but only now have they gone through e...

Demand for specialty potatoes, with multi-hued skin and flesh, is booming.Potato expert Eugenia Banks' cache is nestled in white paper bags piled on pallets lined against the walls. Inside are prized potatoes: River John Blues and Purple Majesties, Win...

P.E.I. potato farmers, as well as visitors from across the country, gathered at the Charlottetown Civic Centre over the weekend for the International Potato Technology Expo.More than a hundred booths, including everything from seed to harvesting, were ...

The seed potato fields in Alberta, Canada, show no signs of a potato cyst nematode infestation, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not ready to lift temporary restrictions placed on the Canadian potatoes, according to the Canadian Food Inspectio...

Canada is een grote speler in de aardappelwereldmarkt. Zowel het volume export van verse aardappelen als van voorgebakken product is aanzienlijk. Alleen al in de maand oktober 2007 werd er netto bijna 88.000 ton aan voorgebakken product geëxporteerd. ...

Robert (Bob) Harding is the new general manager of the Prince Edward Island Potato Board. He will take over Feb. 4 from long-time general manager, Ivan Noonan. Kevin MacIsaac, chairman of the Prince Edward Island Potato Board, says Harding has extensiv...

An ambitious research effort by Cavendish Farms is identifying ways for farmers to reduce nitrate levels finding their way into Island waterwaysAnd while it may sound simplistic, reducing potatoes from the size of baseball star Barry Bonds’ biceps coul...

PotatoPro recommends this video (Flash, 4:15) on the International Year of the Potato 2008, made by FAO's Public Relations and Promotions Branch.   Topics covered in this video include: Role of the potato in the global food supply History of the pota...

For harvest 2007, good growing conditions in most of Canada resulted in a yield of 279.0 cwt per acre (31.27 tonnes per hectare), which approached the record yield of 287.1 cwt per acre (32.18 tonnes per hectare) seen in 2006. An excellent fall for h...

Potatopro recomienda ver este vídeo realizado por la Subdivisión de Relaciones Públicas y Promoción, de la FAO [en inglés, Flash, 6.4Mb]. Los temas tratados son: • papel de la papa en el abastecimiento mundial de alimentos • historia de la papa • c...

The U.S. border has been closed to seed potatoes from Alberta after the plant pest golden nematode was found on two seed potato fields. USDA and CFIA were in talks as of Tuesday to determine when the border would open again. "We'd like it opened...

Potato growers in North Carolina will have improved access to Canadian markets next year, thanks to a bilateral trade agreement signed recently by the United States and Canada. Growers will have a limited amount of guaranteed access to Canadian market...

La Agencia Canadiense de Inspección de Alimentos anunció que se ha confirmado la presencia de verruga de la papa en un campo en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo.

The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board and the Honourable David Emerson, Minister of International Trade today welcomed the conclusion of an arrangement to facilitate bilateral trade i...

Careful and wise storage management decisions are your best defences against crop losses due to potato storage diseases. It is essential to know that you cannot cure tubers of diseases, but you can minimize storage losses from tuber infections.

McCain Foods Limited announced its sponsorship of the United Nations (UN) International Year of the Potato 2008, at the official launch today in New York.The United Nations General Assembly has declared that the potato should be a major component in st...

A virus that crippled Prince Edward Island's potato industry for six months in 2000 may have returned. A single spud from a quarantined processing field near Kensington is being tested for potato wart, a disease that poses no threat to humans but leave...