
Bangladesh: A Dispute Over Cold-Store Rent Turns Violent in Rajshahi as Fuel Costs Rise for Potato Growers
Storage rent and diesel are key costs for potato growers and traders before the next season
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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

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

In a major step toward sustainable post-harvest infrastructure, a new 50‑tonne potato storage facility has been commissioned in…

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

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

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 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…

For global agricultural professionals, the challenge of converting raw yield into stable, high-margin income is universal. A powerful…

On December 5th, in the village of Magan near Yakutsk, a new 500-ton capacity potato storage facility was…

As the North American potato industry navigates the heart of the 2025 storage season, a crucial educational intervention…

The final truckload from the field marks not an end, but the beginning of agriculture’s most delicate phase:…

The Stavropol region of Russia has cemented its status as a key potato-producing area with a successful harvest…

For potato producers, agronomists, and researchers, the start of the year marks a crucial knowledge-sharing event: the Idaho…

The numbers from Bangladesh paint a stark picture of a market in severe distress. According to data from…

Independent research conducted by the Chambre d’Agriculture du Nord–Pas-de-Calais and sponsored by Restrain has revealed that the company’s…