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How do different potatoes respond to heat, drought, and waterlogging stresses? EU-backed scientists are investigating the changes that make potatoes resilient or susceptible.

Tim Rooke has been elected chair of the NFU Potato Forum. Tim, who farms 240 hectares of potatoes, was previously vice chair of the Forum and succeeds outgoing chair Alex Godfrey.

The International Potato Center (CIP), the globally active Dutch seed potato company HZPC, and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) announce the launch of a second, five-year phase of their partnership

Potato production in the current crop year is estimated to be 53.60 mt, down from 56.17 mt last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture's first estimate of horticulture production.

Fields, where potato wart has been found, should be taken permanently out of any type of agricultural production, a P.E.I. legislative committee is recommending.

West-Australian Potato farmers are warning that growers will walk away from the industry as cost pressures make the staple crop unviable in Australia.

Aunque el pico de la temporada de exportación de patatas nuevas españolas comenzará en unas pocas semanas, ya se han cosechado las primeras patatas con piel suelta en la provincia de Sevilla.

Manitoba, Canada Producer organisation Peak of the Market Ltd. is announcing a new direction: with the recent changes in legislation, Peak of the Market has been re-established as a for-profit company and will now be known as Peak of the Market Ltd.

El Ministerio Boliviano de Desarrollo Rural y Tierras (MDRyT) y el Programa Coreano de Agricultura Internacional (KOPIA), de Corea del Sur, suscribieron este martes un convenio de cooperación por USD 1,6 millones.

Las estadísticas más recientes del Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación sitúan la superficie de patata, durante la campaña 2022, en las 47.639 hectáreas, lo que representa una merma del 0,8% en relación a la anterior.

Edison Investment Research, a London-based investment research and advisory company releases a report on RNA interference-based biopesticides: Feeding the World: Biological Products for Sustainable Crop Protection

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey, Vahit Kirisci responded to questions of Omer Fethi Gürer's, Nigde Deputy on the status in 2022 of the quarantine the was implemented in Turkey due to potato wart disease.

Perú es el primer productor de papa de América Latina, con una producción de más de 5 millones de toneladas al año. Sin embargo, el país importó cerca de 10 millones de kilos de papas pre fritas solo en los primeros cuatro meses del 2020.

Yara has recently established a new Incubator Farm, aimed at exploring how a complete potato crop nutrition program that drives productivity and grower profitability can simultaneously lead to a reduced carbon footprint.

Si bien no hace aún dos meses la falta de precipitaciones hacía que el Gobierno regional y los regantes plantearan la necesidad de la elaboración de un decreto de sequía para poder ser activado inmediatamente.

Málaga presume de patatas. La suave climatología de la provincia hace que en la zona se cultiven los primeros tubérculos nuevos del año, especialmente en la zona de la Axarquía.

Potatoes USA, the marketing and promotion board for the potato industry in the United States, elected new leadership during its Annual Meeting on March 9, 2022. The newly elected Chairman and Executive Committee will lead the Board through 2022-2023.

Durante más de 50 años esta compañía familiar ha centrado sus esfuerzos en lograr un producto de altísima calidad; siendo como es la patata un producto natural.