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Dr. Rashmi Singh, Scientist DST launching the AI based Mobile App developed by Research Scholar of Chandigarh University Amit Verma...

The latest Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de Terre (UNPT) forecasts for the 2022-2023 potato campaign show that the...

Committed to its Market Access Program (MAP), Potatoes USA received USD5,242,949 from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign...

A BAN on potato exports from Prince Edward Island to the US because of potato wart is likely to continue...

In 2004, Steve and Bonnie Mackenzie-Grieve thought they were ready to slow down a little. Their two southern Alberta businesses...

The Indian Council for Agricultural Research’s Central Tuber Crop Research Institute (CTCRI) in Thiruvananthapuram has established frontline demonstration-cum-seed villages for...

NEW Zealand potato growers are being urged to get in touch with Biosecurity New Zealand if they find a new...

In 1951, a mere nine years after the government’s first potato dehydration facility began operations, a group of potato farmers...

Up to December 8, 2021, European potato export demand remains good, but orders are being canceled due to logistics, with...

EUROPEAN Potato Trade Association, Europatat, is calling on EU and UK policy makers to break the deadlock and reach an...

TRADE body, the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association (UKIFDA) is urging more oil heated households in the farming community...

With its 456,000 tons of potatoes imported in the last 11 months, Uzbekistan has already set a new record of...

Article by Roger J. Stirnimann, Dipl.-Ing. agr., Dipl.-Ing. Wirtsch., Executive MBA, University of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences, Zollikofen (DLG)....

The LaJoie family has always been farmers—at least for as many generations as anyone cares to mention. But they haven’t...

Just before Christmas, there was information that nitrogen fertilizers became more expensive. The price of ammonium nitrate exceeded PLN 4,000. PLN per...

A NEW practical field, farm and lab guide for monitoring soil carbon has been launched to answer key questions for...

According to experts from the market, the Russian capacity for processing potatoes is set to increase by 50% in 2022,...

The winners of the CeresAwards 2021 are optimistic about the new year.

The impacts of climate change in Idaho will present challenges and opportunities to all sectors of Idaho’s economy — from recreation and...

The Canadian Potato Production for 2021 has been estimated by Statistics Canada to reach 6,891,024 tons, showing a YOY (Year-On-Year)...

George Crapo grew up in Parker, Idaho, where, from a young age, he developed a deep and abiding love of farming...

SPEAKERS at the recent CropTec Show in Peterborough explored the latest thinking on soil health, crop nutrition and crop protection...

Recently, Lay’s has announced a vodka made in part with the same potatoes used for their potato chips, making the...

MP Richard Thomson, representing the constituency of Gordon in the House of Commons, has again pressed the UK Government on the...

YIELD alone is no longer the driver of economic success and growers need to seek a balance between quality yield...

TagZ, an Indian start-up founded in 2019, has brought to India a chip-making technology that produces tasty potato chips, while...

Four and five generations on, August’s descendants now own and operate Heartland Farms, which has become one of the largest...

The AHDB Petitioners – vegetable, flower and potato growers in the UK who voted to abolish a statutory levy on...

CUPGRA's 32nd Annual Cambridge Potato Conference, which will see speakers challenging potato businesses and researchers to develop their vision for...

After receiving the most customer votes nationally, Mister Bee Potato Chips has been selected as the “Best West Virginia Made...

Interview with Dr Markus Demmel, Deputy Director at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry, Bavarian State Research Centre...

There are no statistics on the richest farmers in Germany. And they didn't make it onto Forbes magazine's list of the...

Strong Roots, a leading plant-based frozen food company, and McCain Foods, the family-owned world leader in frozen potato specialties and...

O’Shea Farms from Piltown, Co Kilkenny recently joined forces with Meadowfresh Foods in Tallow, Co Waterford to market and supply...

In 2020, the global potato chips market size reached a total of USD32.2bn, with the industry likely to grow with...

To help Strong Roots, a leading plant-based frozen food company, grow and further drive its work in sustainability, McCain Foods,...

Wyma Solutions announced recently that it has won the 2021 Kordia Champion Producer/Manufacturer award in New Zealand. The award is a recognition of Wyma’s...

Mack Farms is a member of Fresh Solutions Network, which has helped not only to expand the reach of their...

E Green Global Co. Ltd. (EGG) recently announced that it has raised additional equity funding from ADB Ventures, the venture...

The revocation of registration granted to the global food giant Pepsico by India’s Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’...

India proceeded with the revocation of the intellectual protection granted to PepsiCo’s FC5 potato variety, saying that the country’s rules...

Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As...

Two potato producers in neighbouring provinces experienced very different years in 2021 but shared a similar desire to help others...

Scotland has provided Ireland with the most significant proportion of the imported seed potatoes required

For more than 50 years, Lindsay has been a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. From the strength...

A potato seed multiplication company in Nakuru is providing certified seeds to farmers throughout the year, in an effort to...

A small group of Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI) potato industry representatives, joined by Island Premier Dennis King, gathered today on...

The recent discovery of potato wart disease on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and the subsequent embargo on export of...

Frozen potato global trade volumes remain above pre-COVID levels for the third month in a row in August 2021. At...

Canadian growers harvested a record potato crop in 2021, as production rose 18.2% year over year to 123.1 million hundredweight, on account of increases...