News on The Potato Supply Chain from India

A growing shortage of farm hands and smaller land holdings are forcing many farmers to mechanise their farms, allowing multinational agri implement companies to tap into Indian market.

Consumers of potatoes in the east and south of India will probably have to shell out more than his counterpart in the north, at least for the next two months.

Potato prices crashed by about Rs 100/quintal following release of stocks held by the West Bengal Government in the market.

The state government of West Bengal may incur a loss in its attempt to give relief to the potato farmers following a bumper production last season.

The West Bengal government’s handling of a bumper potato crop this year is becoming a political hot potato.

The West Bengal government Monday announced it will release six lakh tonnes of potatoes to arrest spiralling prices before the coming festive season.

Potato prices may drop as the West Bengal government is all set to offload 1 million tonne (mt) in the market by next week to rapidly cut excess stocks.

Una variedad de papa enriquecida con proteína mediante ingeniería genética se está probando actualmente en la India con propósitos comerciales. Desarrollado por Asis Datta en el Centro Nacional para Investigación en el Genoma Vegetal de la Universidad...

A genetically engineered, protein-enriched potato is being readied for commercial field-testing in India, scientists said.

With the mercury level steadily rising across India, potato growers need to switch to new varieties of heat-tolerant seeds for saving their crops, agriculture scientists have suggested.

A centre of the Shimla-based Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) will be set up in West Bengal's West Midnapur district to make quality potato seeds favourable to the state's climatic condition available to the farmers.

With close to about 25 per cent of potatoes having been released from cold storages across West Bengal, potato prices, which had inched up by Rs 10-20 a quintal last week, dropped on Tuesday. The wholesale price of the tuber (Jyoti variety) dropped Rs ...

Retail prices of potatoes are expected to remain stable in the next three months, despite monsoons being right at the doorstep in most parts of the country as rabi production in key growing states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal has exceeded estimates

There was a need to constitute a potato promotion board at the central level in order to look into various issues beginning from cultivation to consumption of the tuber in the country. The matter was discussed at the annual meeting of the Federation of...

Frito Lay India is looking at increasing contract farming of potato in India by almost four-fold over the next three years.   “Currently, there are 15,000 farmers doing contract farming of potato for us while we are sourcing the commodity from 40,000 f...

Since the beginning of Mar­ch, the price of potato has dipped more than 16 per ce­nt on account of higher pro­duction of the commod­ity in Ind­ia this year. High arriv­als have be­en reported in the man­dis and th­at has kept the sentiments we­ak for t...

The West Bengal Government has announced a transport subsidy of Rs 11 crore for inter-State transport of potatoes as well as export to other countries. West Bengal's potato production almost doubled to 95 lakh tonnes this year, against just about 55 l...

A bumper crop, government apathy and exploitation by middlemen has driven a debt-ridden potato farmer to commit suicide in North Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district this week. Many, however, are not ready to give in without a fight although the odds are agai...