Keeping the harvest
Storage rent and diesel are key costs for potato growers and traders before the next season
Unsold stock in Agra's cold stores is draining the cash farmers need for the next planting
Full cold stores and prices below cost put pressure on seed choice and area just before rabi planting
Speculative storage turned a price risk into a total loss for stock owners and the cold-store operator
A price floor in India's biggest potato state only works if farmers register, and few have so far
Natural-cold design skips refrigeration costs for smallholder potato storage
In a short-crop year, better grading means fewer marketable tubers lost to rejection or mis-sorting
Packing capacity, not field output, is often the bottleneck for Aroostook grower-packers
Ai-Plast and SIBUR are testing 1.3-tonne polymer bins for potato storage
According to USDA NASS, potato planted area across 13 states fell to 353,290.57 hectares in 2026 — down…
Non-chemical UV dosing is tuned by crop and storage condition, developers say
Vendor cites up to $35,630 extra profit per 1,000t and 30% longer storage
Russia renewed CIPC for a decade the same year the EU phased it out
In a major step toward sustainable post-harvest infrastructure, a new 50‑tonne potato storage facility has been commissioned in…
In response to growing consumer demand for clean-label convenience foods, European scientists are pioneering a novel preservation technique…
In a significant breakthrough for post-harvest food preservation, researchers in China have engineered a novel hydrogel formulation that…
Wet lifting raises rot risk — curing at 15-18°C for 14 days is the answer
Federal money for stores goes unspent because regions will not co-finance it
Two months of shelf life against ten days elsewhere — that is the whole commercial case
19,000 hectares out after years of expansion — growers lengthening rotations as risk control
Dormancy is no longer a stable variety trait — stressed crops enter store already older
Three quarters of the reserve sits with private operators under agreement, not with the state
One store in seven still shows CIPC — down from one in four, years after withdrawal
3 million tonnes of surplus with no inter-state route out — 100-150 rupees a sack
From 6–7 tonnes a day to 20–23 — and less damage to the tubers going through
Storage to 38,000 tonnes so the crop can be sold when the price is right, not when it is dug
Storage lets MAPS sell in late winter, when Azerbaijani and Egyptian volume has thinned
500 million rubles into washing and packing — the loss happens after the field, not in it
Raw starch to bioplastic in one fermentation step, 24 hours, no multi-stage process
Four stores holding the crop of 1,200 farmers could not produce fire safety papers
Ömer Fethi Gürer, MP for Niğde from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and a member of the Parliamentary…
Never store potatoes next to onions — each spoils the other, in opposite ways
No cold storage meant seed lost viability between seasons — 2,000 tonnes now closes that gap
Labour per hectare projected to fall from 16.2 hours to 8.9 — the whole case in one ratio
Russian retail giant Magnit has acquired and modernized a warehouse complex in the Tambov Region for potato storage…
A rainy summer turns potato harvesting into a risky lottery—wet tubers with damaged skin can rot within a…
Jeongseon-gun in Gangwon Province, South Korea, has announced the full-scale launch of the “Support Project for an Excellent…
Farmers in Agra (Uttar Pradesh, India) are facing a severe potato price crash, with cold storages packed and…
Due to slow market activity, potatoes have remained in storage longer than usual, significantly increasing the risk of…
As the vegetable planting season kicks off in Biysk, a sudden and prolonged cold snap in the Altai…
A new storage and sorting complex for elite seed potatoes is set to be completed in the Shatura…
According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, the current potato planting areas in the Kaliningrad region are sufficient…
With just one day remaining until the Eid al-Fitr celebrations, hundreds of thousands of potato-farming families in Bangladesh’s…
The new crop potato market in the United States is experiencing a stark divide in supply: while red…
Since the 1970s, the potato—poetically named “sibzamini” (earth apple) in Persian—has become a staple in Iranian cuisine, steadily…
The city of Namwon in North Jeolla Province has announced the beginning of the shipment season for its…
Fruit Logistica & global context Fruit Logistica remains a key international platform for FAM STUMABO, not only because…
The Primorsky Krai in Russia’s Far East has successfully harvested and placed into winter storage a significant reserve…
In a significant agricultural achievement, the Rangpur region of Bangladesh has exceeded its potato cultivation target by 1%…
The potato, long a staple of global diets, is at the epicenter of a profound agricultural transformation. Driven…
