Growing seeds

Due to a crisis in imported quality seed varieties, right now it’s impossible to meet the demand for high-grade processed...

Potatoes in Practice, the UK’s largest field event for potatoes and a highlight of the season for the sector bringing together...

The seed potato chain, represented by LTO Nederland, Plantum NL and the Dutch Potato Organization (NAO), is very concerned about...

In the progeny of the large haulm killing trial that Delphy carried out last year in potato seed potatoes, it...

Due to the wet spring, the last potatoes were not planted until the end of May.

In the past five decades, potato production in India has steadily increased from around 8.3 million tonnes in 1980 to...

In seed potatoes, haulm killing is started in July. Reglone and Finale are no longer permitted for the chemical haulm killing of...

In Sudan, potato cultivation has seen tremendous successes, with productivity in some areas reaching 28 tons an acre. The Alarqam...

Consulting and research organization Delphy has started a study to inject slurry into potato seed potatoes in a row using...

Researchers from the University of Groningen planted salt-tolerant seed potatoes on Friday afternoon at the double dike in Bierum in...

Farmer Leonid Kichigin reaps high yields annually, and now he intends to provide the region with virus-free potato seeds. This year,...

Kangaroo Island's seed potato industry is still recovering a year-and-a-half on from the bushfires with growers working together to overcome...

Agrifirm and HZPC are joining forces in a demonstration project into lice netting and straw as virus prevention in the...

This is the philosophy of the seed house HZPC , a Dutch multinational leader in the production of seed potatoes.

Harvest 80 tons of potatoes with 25 grams of seed per hectare? That's where it's definitely going, according to R&D director...

Potatoes SA shares Limpopo Province potato farmer Johan Holtzhausen's story as he details how he had contracted Covid-19 and at...

There are opportunities in Russia for HZPC. The processing industry is growing and requires continuity in the supply and quality of...

seed potato cultivation returns to a plot every three years.

Tackling the virus in seed potato cultivation requires a system approach

Potatoes are grown in Idaho, but it’s a State and not a variety!

With a digital noise counting system, monitoring no longer lags behind

Pakistan is set to become self-sufficient in potato seed by mid-2022.

Netherlands has a small market share in the import market for seed potatoes while it is the most important European...

The majority of Maine seed potatoes wind up in the processing sector and grown at Porter Seed Farm.

farmers Kees and Anco van der Bos and Jan Idsardi have almost twenty years of experience with circular agriculture

Seed potato growers along the Wadden coast feel their survival is threatened by the plans in the Wadden Agenda. The salinization...

The infection currently costs the industry upwards of £25 million a year

Slower Scottish seed sales thought to be behind higher stored total than five-year average

The acreage of seed potatoes in the Netherlands is at the ceiling

were able reproduce potato seeds of the Xinhua and Chola varieties from China and Ecuador

A variable planting distance in the cultivation of seed potatoes requires better calculation rules. This is evident from the experiences of...

In order to develop agricultural activity, the private company in conjunction with producers and with the support of the Ministry...

In favorable weather it is perfectly possible to spray seed potatoes with Spotlight Plus and Quickdown, according to tests in...

During the corona crisis, the PlanetProof quality mark proves its worth. Agrico claims this on the basis of its own experiences...

One potato is not the other. And bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to seed potatoes. Precision technology is...

The first field inspection of seed potatoes is no longer indicative of viruses from the 2021 cultivation season. Seed potato growers...

If you talk to a group of potato growers, one issue is almost certain to come up: how to find...

Although it wasn’t an immediate success, the ‘Russet Burbank’ cultivar now accounts for about 40% of the U.S. potato acreage....

Demo trials by BASF show that, thanks to more efficient control of rhizoctonia, seed potato growers can often harvest earlier...

The post-inspection of seed potatoes is coming to an end. The reduction percentage fell slightly to 29 percent. The regional differences remain...

Potato farmers from the Belén Settlement in the district of Tacuaras, Ñeembucú, received inputs and advice on seed production and...

The area dedicated to the production of seed potatoes in Spain is 2,150 hectares, with a very good quality crop...