Seeds
Punjab's seed potato calendar — planting in early October, haulm cutting by late December — keeps aphid-borne viruses out of India's largest certified seed program.
Shangi's short cycle has made it Kenya's most popular variety, but certified seed covers only about 4–5% of demand and a blight-resistant version is…
Indonesia and the Netherlands have officially launched the Indonesia–Netherlands Strategic Seed Sector Working Group, a platform that brings together government bodies, businesses and knowledge…
Gene-edited potatoes with modified starch composition are moving through development, offering processing and health benefits under lighter regulation than GMOs in some markets.
Royal HZPC Group has been granted a patent for a new generation of potatoes with increased levels of flavonoids — natural antioxidants associated with…
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food will increase inspections of imported seed potatoes intended for commercial cultivation and seed multiplication, Agriculture Minister Plamen Abrovski…
Two seed lots of the same calendar age can perform very differently; accumulated thermal time, not birthdays, determines vigor and stem number.
Riviera is a first-early Dutch table potato prized for very fast bulking, but it is highly susceptible to late blight and powdery scab.
Potatoes.News and the International Potato Tour congratulate their partner Molyanov Agro Group on ten years of seed potato production, research and breeding
Switzerland tests dormant seed tubers for PVY by RT-qPCR, and Idaho is developing the same approach to replace its winter grow-out in Hawaii. Results…
India and the Netherlands are moving to strengthen cooperation in the seed sector through the India–Netherlands Seed Partnership, following a knowledge and trade mission…
Potato growers in Argentina’s Jujuy province are reducing planted area as seed potato prices of 60,000–65,000 pesos per bag squeeze margins, even as growers…
The Cundinamarca departmental government, working with national potato federation Fedepapa, has delivered seed potato, minitubers and fertilizer packages worth around 105 million pesos per…
There is no standard recipe for developing a strong potato sector, says Michel de Bruin of Dutch cooperative Agrico: quality seed is only the…
Early potato cultivation is gaining momentum in Dinajpur, where farmers are preparing fields and planting early-maturing varieties in the hope of reaching the market…
Behind every bag of potatoes sold in a Nigerian market lies a question the sector has too rarely asked: where did the seed come…
Belarusian agricultural specialists have identified the best potato varieties for long-term storage, with “Skarb” standing out as the champion. According to Vadim Makhanko, Director…
Trials in Washington State and Idaho show gibberellic acid on seed pieces doubles stem numbers and shifts crops to small tubers. Low doses raised…
Facing rising concerns over contamination, leading Japanese food manufacturers are turning to pest-resistant potatoes. Last week, Kewpie announced that its food service subsidiary plans…
Extension services in the US and the UK show why hot summers favour Dickeya blackleg over Pectobacterium, and why seed testing with 400 or…
The Dominican Republic produced 2,871,185 quintals of potatoes in 2025, up 5.4%, the Ministry of Agriculture says. Constanza holds about 44,000 of 55,000 tareas,…
Two more varieties, Geliya and Skif, were submitted for state registration in 2025, while domestic seed coverage for potatoes and other import-dependent crops stands…
Sri Lanka imported 186,145 tonnes of potatoes in 2025, while its two local seasons gave less than 30,000 tonnes, Central Bank data show. Domestic…
The Research Center for Potato Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has transitioned to aeroponic systems for the production of mini-tubers,…
Tunisia grows potatoes on about 25,000 hectares and imports 80–90% of its seed, the farmers' union UTAP says. It wants a national plan for…
Uruguay's autumn 2025 potato crop reached 56,500 tonnes on 2,138 hectares, up from 47,000 tonnes a year earlier, according to the agriculture ministry's statistics…
Belarus has recently intensified its efforts in potato breeding and cultivation, introducing high-yielding, high-starch varieties and adopting advanced biotechnological tools. Among the most notable…
A Punjab SOP makes 15 October the last planting date and 31 December the last haulm-cutting date for seed potatoes, with cutting earlier if…
Gala takes 41.29% of Kazakhstan's commercial potato area and over 79,000 t of the 194,700 t of seed planted in 2026, the growers' union…
Russia's Potato Union says the ten most planted varieties, about 60% of commercial area, are all foreign, while half of the 550 registered varieties…
Norway has developed a range of potato varieties that reflect both its long agricultural history and modern breeding efforts. Traditional landraces form the foundation…
Finland has developed several well-known potato varieties, with Pito and Kulta standing out as the most significant achievements of the country’s breeding programs. These…
Extension specialists say potato seed should go into soil of at least 45°F (about 7°C) and rising. In colder soil, emergence slows sharply and…
Trials in Turkey and Serbia and a CIP project in Rwanda show that aeroponics produces several times more seed potato minitubers than pots or…
Recombinant strains of potato virus Y now make up more than 90% of US isolates. In Washington trials, infected plants produced 22% to 32%…
An AHDB review shows chitting cut time to emergence by 8–10 days and can bring maturity up to two weeks earlier. A 2024 study…
A 70×30 cm layout gives about 47,600 plants per hectare. That means 0.84 kg per plant for 40 t/ha and 1.26 kg for 60…
Canada's new bacterial ring rot directive for seed potatoes takes effect on October 12, 2026. It keeps zero tolerance and sets sample sizes of…
ESPG data show that seed potato multiplication in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Scotland, Belgium and Denmark covers 105,155 ha in 2026. Belgium and Scotland…
HZPC France has started building a greenhouse in Ruisseauville that should produce up to 2 million mini-tubers, the company says. The aim is full…
The Central Potato Research Institute station in Gwalior has prepared 600 quintals of seed of Kufri Surya, Kufri Pukhraj and Kufri Sangam for farmers…
A KfW-funded project says seven registered seed potato farms at over 2,400 m in Chon-Alay harvested 35–50 t/ha of European varieties. Local seed costs…
In 2026, four new potato varieties of Czech breeding were officially registered in the Czech Republic, covering both the table and processing segments. Baronka…
EU seed potato grades set virus tolerances from 0.2% for grade S to 6% for class B. Scotland prefers much stricter limits for PVY,…
FAO data show a gap of more than ten times between the highest and lowest national potato yields. Research led by the International Potato…
In early 2026, the COBORU variety registration commission approved the inclusion of four new potato varieties in the national register: two table varieties and…
The Dutch potato area fell 8.4% to about 150,000 ha in 2026. Ware potatoes took the cut, while seed potatoes grew slightly to 42,100…
A delegation of France Plants, the French seed potato organisation, visited Senegal on 23–24 September. France sells 9,000–10,000 tonnes of seed potatoes to Senegal…
Polish potato breeder HZ Zamarte, founded in 1946, has released 125 varieties and tests 75,000 seedlings a year. Its purple-fleshed Provita matures in about…
Royal HZPC Group's commercial chief sees export chances for Indian seed potatoes but says rules block them now. He asks the trade to push…
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