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INTERPOM 2026 will bring 332 exhibitors from 15 countries to Kortrijk Xpo, with a seminar programme on future potato supply, water management and AI-ready processing.
CONPAPA's cost breakdown puts seed at 32% of Mexico's MXN 300,000 per-hectare potato production cost, with post-harvest freight at 23% — while a smaller…
The Ulster Farmers' Union has urged potato growers to negotiate firmly rather than accept unsustainable returns. A Cambridgeshire grower storing up to 5,000 tonnes…
Diesel prices are 40–73% higher than a year ago in the US and major EU markets, adding to harvest, haulage and contract pressures for…
The average price of a 10 kg bag of potatoes on South Africa's fresh produce markets dropped by 23.14% in a week to R63.46.…
Peru guards more than 3,000 native potato varieties in the crop's center of origin — a genetic treasury for mountain food security and premium…
Ethylene, spearmint oil, 1,4-DMN and orange oil now anchor post-CIPC sprout control; costs per treatment are higher and management more demanding.
With older soil insecticides withdrawn, wireworm damage is rising in several regions; monitoring, rotation and new chemistry fill the gap imperfectly.
Fresh table demand tilts to washed, baby and microwaveable formats; traditional bulk bags shrink as households get smaller and cooking time shorter.
Verticillium dahliae and lesion nematodes act as partners in early dying; pre-plant soil assays and rotation discipline decide severity more than any in-season treatment.
Seventy thousand visitors at the Fries World Championship in Arras, as the CNIPT calls for flexible size rules after a summer of heatwaves.
Reducing sugars set at harvest and in storage determine acrylamide risk at frying; variety choice, harvest maturity and storage temperature do most of the…
Unpredictable autumns mean harvest windows open and close faster; farms that pre-plan lifting order and labor flexibility capture crops that weather once destroyed.
Hybrid true potato seed has reached commercial release in Kenya, promising disease-free, easily stored planting material shipped in grams instead of tonnes.
McCain's bid for a further AUD 15 per tonne cut in Tasmanian contract prices, after Simplot's move, exposes how dependent growers are on a…
Russia imported 420,000 tonnes of potatoes in the first half of 2026, nearly half the volume of a year earlier, while the EU and…
The 2026 organized-sector harvest may reach around 8 million tonnes, yet abundant supply does not automatically translate into cheap potatoes for consumers.
Bangladesh's president urges cold-storage expansion, Kyrgyzstan reports a 965,000-tonne harvest, new US import rules for PEI potatoes, Colombia drafts a 50% cost-cut plan, and…
Potatoes.News is opening a section for potato industry businesses and projects offered for sale or investment. Publication is free for market participants, at the…
Potatoes.News открывает раздел для участников картофельного рынка: продажа предприятий, долей, хранилищ, техники и инвестиционные проекты. Публикация бесплатная, решение о размещении принимает редакция.
RapSeedExport in Akmola Region is raising KZT 1.894 billion (about $3.7 million) through offtake contracts or the sale of up to 24% of the…
Проект RapSeedExport в Акмолинской области привлекает 1,894 млрд тенге (около $3,7 млн) через офтейк-контракты или продажу до 24% доли в ТОО. В проекте 7550…
A frozen French fry plant with a full-cycle processing line in Kursavka, Stavropol Krai, is offered for sale. The seller is asking RUB 265…
В селе Курсавка Ставропольского края продаётся действующий завод замороженного картофеля фри площадью 1000 кв. м с линией полного цикла. Продавец оценивает выкуп 100% доли…
A record 2025–26 harvest of about 12 million tonnes and the closure of the Afghan border crashed potato prices in Pakistan. Lahore trader Mian…
Germany's 2026 harvest estimated 25% down, producer prices up 61.5%, a £3.72M UK bacterial-disease project, seed tuber physiological age explained, and Interpom 2026 registration…
Northwest European processing quotes at €200-275/t, Michigan crop at 20 million cwt, El Niño tops the agenda in Balcarce, Iscon Balaji wins in Jeddah,…
PepsiCo and Grimme train harvester operators in VR, the EU-4 harvest grinds on unevenly, Russian prices near a floor, Argentine seed costs trim area,…
UK drought losses worst since the 1950s, McCain buys Falcon Agrifriz plant in India, Brazil's price whipsaw, Norway's doubled blight spraying, and an El…
US crop forecast at a 15-year low, near-record EU fry exports, McCain's Tasmania price ultimatum, Russian prices down 13.1%, and Indo-Dutch seed talks.
Kazakhstan’s potato sector has taken a step toward building domestic processing with the signing of a trilateral memorandum between the Union of Potato and…
New Zealand exporter Harvest Fresh has shipped the country's first-ever container of fresh potatoes to Taiwan, the result of years of phytosanitary work to…
Nearly two decades after pale cyst nematode was first detected in Idaho in 2006, PAPAS researchers are laying out the integrated strategy behind the…
Ontario's P&K Vander Zaag Farms is 92% through harvest with strong yields, but the Canadian Federation of Agriculture warns surging diesel, steel and aluminum…
India’s potato exports across six product categories reached approximately USD 449.6 million in calendar year 2025, with frozen and prepared potatoes leading the growth,…
Fruitinfo's week-42 review puts CFD wholesale potato prices at 15.29 RUB/kg (+1.1%) and the 2026 national harvest at about 7.5 million tonnes, down from…
Shatrovo district finished digging potatoes from 420 hectares at a yield of 150 centners per hectare, roughly 6,300 tonnes, as the Kurgan region harvest…
Agriculture minister Arata Takebe, appointed on 15 October, opens his term amid Hokkaido opposition to expanded U.S. fresh potato imports, citing 21 pests requiring…
A 17,450 m² storage complex with 16 sections in Almaty region's Iliysky district will supply PepsiCo's new Alatau plant and build a regional food…
Amga district brought in 2,109 tonnes of potatoes and 481 tonnes of vegetables from 170.5 and 20.2 hectares respectively, meeting its 2026 harvest plan…
Agricultural cooperative Uspenskoye, among 300+ Sakhalin farmers backed by state grants, used a 25-million-ruble 2024 award to build 1,000 tonnes of vegetable storage capacity.
Moldovan wholesale potato prices rose to 6-6.5 lei/kg as a smaller harvest, fewer seed imports and limited cheap imports from neighbors point toward further…
Kirov region's potato harvest reached 85% completion with 27,000 tonnes dug from 907 hectares at 297 c/ha; Nolinsky and Kumyonsky districts led the region…
French potato growers are asking supermarkets to accept smaller spuds for fries after summer drought and a relaxed 45mm minimum size standard following a…
Poland's statistics office GUS has cut its national potato harvest estimate to 5.9 million tonnes, 15.4% below 2025, after satellite imagery confirmed lower yields…
Dickeya can cut yields by 20–25% or more; seed buyers demand documented freedom, and Scotland and Northern Ireland apply zero tolerance in certification.
The potato industry’s ambitions — dependable supplies, better varieties, sustainable production, expanding markets — all rest on one precondition: that people can make a…
With a single variety covering 41% of commercial area, Kazakhstan's growers' union warns of the risks of one-variety dependence and pushes for diversification.
A research building more than 20 years in the making is now home to Washington State University’s post-harvest potato team, giving the group state-of-the-art…
Wholesale yellow potato prices in Lima have risen about 30% this month, with retail prices reaching S/5 per kilogram, as traders point to El…
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