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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 company. The project has 7,550 ha of land and a 13,700-tonne store.
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 record 2025–26 harvest of about 12 million tonnes and the closure of the Afghan border crashed potato prices in Pakistan. Lahore trader Mian…
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…
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,…
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…
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.
India's frozen and prepared potato exports reached $279 million in 2025, up 37.4% year on year, and a forecast 25.4% drop in north-western European…
Minsk region leads with 176,000 tonnes; winter sowing for the 2027 crop has been fully completed.
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…
The Global Potato Summit's second edition is set for 16-17 December 2026 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, organized by Media Today Group.
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…
Potato prices in India fell 11.5% year on year in September 2026 even as food inflation accelerated to 7.74%, with onion and garlic prices…
On International Day of Rural Women, marked on 15 October, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) highlighted how potato farming is changing household economics…
McCain Foods has agreed to acquire Falcon Agrifriz Foods’ frozen potato processing business in Gujarat, India — an automated plant in Kadi with over…
A CIP-organized field exchange at northern Vietnam’s Nam Cuong cooperative has highlighted how potato cropping fits into rice-based rotations — with mechanized straw composting,…
Chinese researchers have built a cytosine base editing system for potato that raises average editing efficiency to 76.7%, about 2.9 times the level of…
Bangladesh’s President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called for transforming agriculture into a profitable, revenue-generating sector, singling out the country’s potato paradox: growers in…
Kazakhstan plans to expand potato processing and value-added exports through a memorandum with Belgium's DeWulf NV, signed at a business council attended by President…
Kyrgyzstan’s farmers have dug 965,000 tonnes of potatoes so far in 2026, 317,000 tonnes more than at the same point last year, as the…
Iscon Balaji Foods says reports of a suspended FSSAI licence relate to Bala Ji Food Products and have no connection with the Gujarat frozen…
Indian potato processor Iscon Balaji Foods won the Saudifood Excellence Award 2026 at The Saudi Food Show in Jeddah and gave its new Hungritos…
CGIAR, IRRI and CIP show how composted rice straw supports potato rotations in Vietnam's Red River Delta.
Iscon Balaji Foods won the Saudifood Excellence Award for Best Snack Product and launched Everlasting CrispX fries in Jeddah.
McCain Foods will buy Falcon Agrifriz's frozen potato plant in Gujarat, India, for about USD 98 million.
EKSLi's AI-based optical sorting lines for potatoes will be presented by its dealer AkBars ProfSnab at KazAgroFarm in Astana on 21–23 October, stand A42.
Gujarat-based potato processor Iscon Balaji Foods showcased its frozen potato brand Hungritos at MIHAS 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, targeting halal export corridors across Southeast…
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…
Thailand expected 120,854 tonnes of potatoes in 2025 from 40,455 rai, the Office of Agricultural Economics says. In the north, 85% of the potato…
The Philippines harvested 102,790.84 tonnes of potatoes in 2024, up 2.73%, the Philippine Statistics Authority reports. Benguet alone produced 76,487 tonnes at 21.10 t/ha.
Iraq's statistics body puts the 2025 potato crop at 186,147 tonnes on 31,579 dunums, down from 674,800 tonnes on 96,500 dunums in 2020. The…
Iraq's potato harvest moved sharply towards the spring season in 2025. Spring output rose to 122,921 tonnes, while the autumn crop fell to 63,226…
Israel plants about 180,000 dunams (18,000 hectares) of potatoes a year and exported 169,407 tonnes in 2023, according to a sector plan of the…
With 2.5 million tonnes already dug and farm-gate prices at 90–100 tenge, Astana sees no grounds for last season's export ban.
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…
New insurance products for potatoes and onions anchor a subsidy overhaul, as Tashkent pushes to cover domestic potato demand from local production by 2027.
Local farmers are being offered 20–22 som per kg, above the earlier announced average of 16–18 som.
Farm-gate prices of 18–20 som per kg — and as low as 12–15 som on Issyk-Kul — have prompted calls for export solutions.
National statistics recorded the decline in the week to 9 September as new-crop supply built up.
Field prices run at 80–110 tenge per kg against a national retail average of 217 tenge, raising farm-margin concerns.
Better weather in April and May lifted South Korea's 2026 spring potato crop to 361,167 tonnes, after a weak 2025 when both the spring…
Farm-gate potato prices in Pavlodar fell to 80-110 tenge/kg and some farmers sell below cost, while the growers' union expects about 3.3 Mt against…
Drone strikes and closed crossings leave Pakistan’s potato belt without its Afghan route to Central Asia as the October sowing window approaches.
Olzhas Bektenov told regional governors to stock potatoes and vegetables for winter and spring, with the 2026 harvest expected at about 2.8 million tonnes.
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…
Kazakhstan has commissioned 95 storage facilities with a total capacity of 746,000 tonnes as part of the Comprehensive Plan for the Construction and Modernization…
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…
Dingbian in northern Shaanxi is harvesting 200,000 mu of potatoes and expects close to 500,000 t; field-gate price is 0.6 yuan per jin and…
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