Seeds
Egypt wants more of its seed potatoes grown at home, a medium-term shift for seed exporters
Public breeders are racing to put heat tolerance and virus resistance into commercial russets
One variety on half the area leaves Belgian growers and fry makers facing the same drought risk
Seed growers may get an extra year to comply with rules whose procedures are not yet written
A cheaper carrier could bring camera-based virus selection to mid-size seed-potato farms
A home-grown certified seed chain would cut Pakistan's reliance on imported and farm-saved seed
One city says it holds about half of China’s seed-potato capacity, making it a key node for supply
Multiplying imported elite seed at home is the step Uzbekistan needs to cut its reliance on imports
The most concrete step yet toward opening Japan's fresh market to US potatoes; Hokkaido seed at stake
Home-bred varieties now cover crisps, flakes and fries, the segment most dependent on imported genetics
Accredited private inspectors could ease the certification bottleneck behind Kenya's seed potato gap
Three countries release at once, and the breeding capacity behind it is now local
Volume, material type and agreement duration all go undisclosed
A Dutch-bred variety, but every tuber of seed made in the farm’s own laboratory
Rosselkhoztsentr verifies 11 domestic varieties before wider multiplication
Failing the field inspection costs a grower varietal status and the subsidy that goes with it
Breeding is no longer the constraint - getting clean planting material to farmers is
A modest overall contraction hiding a 12% collapse in one country and growth in another
Half the inspected material is still experimental, which is where import substitution actually stands
Four disciplines assess one crop, and the station has done this since 1867
The gap is real and wider than the company that called attention to it says
Thirty-one years of testing which varieties survive a Yakutian summer
Seeds made in Russia, breeding rights abroad - the gap state support has not closed
Canadian company EarthFresh has introduced a new potato variety called Butter Potatoes, positioned as a premium product and…
Seed from Karelia now goes to a Lipetsk french fry plant
$10 million and a Korean partner aimed at 3,900 tonnes of G1 seed by 2030
Output nearly tripled in five years, varieties up from three to seven
Seed imports from CIS and Europe up 22% as heat and salinity set the specification
Mastak at 22% starch, plus 1.2 million microtubers a year at 98.4% clean
Wart found in soil, not in tubers — and PEI growers say the response is disproportionate
105,155 ha across six regions, down 1.6% — but Belgium falls 12%
158 hectares, seven varieties by maturity, and a wet summer that has not changed the plan
A purple-fleshed variety with real agronomic trade-offs, not just a novelty
Growers say they can cover the whole market — if smuggled potatoes stop arriving
AI aimed at the slowest part of breeding: the years between lab result and farm field
25 members in Nyandarua farming potatoes while banks, transport and training pass them by
The breeder owns none of the five links that decide how the finished fry turns out
A weather station near Kostanay decides when the sprayer goes out — and when it does not
Original and elite seed production is the theme — the weakest link in the Russian chain
28-30 t/ha against half that gap to the Netherlands — the cause is seed, not soil
Move it downhill and it grows bigger — and stops being worth the premium
27,952 tubers across 23 varieties — research material, explicitly not commercial seed
Whole 30–60 g seed, not cut pieces — August wounds do not heal, they rot
British growers spray up to 15 times a season — PiperPlus is aimed at that number
Second-largest producer, but only a fraction processed — that gap is the business case
Saving seed became illegal in January — the growers doing it did not know
Vi Fry took 1,000 t of Vostorg in 2025 and plans 3,000 t in 2026
A 161% area increase in one cycle, limited by the quarantine rules that protect the crop
In the first half of 2026, the Nizhny Novgorod Region shipped approximately 27,100 tonnes of potatoes to international…
In the Wupeng greenhouse of the Dingxi Potato Research Institute in Gansu Province, a remarkable soilless cultivation technique…
