SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims to elucidate...

Thanks to a collaboration between researchers across the world, including the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical...

Sustainable agriculture scheme seeks participants BAYER Crop Science is looking for "forward-thinking" UK potato growers to participate in a bioinsecticide...

When it comes to innovations in the potato sector, true potato seeds comes to mind. The small seeds are newer...

The manure policy, announced rules in the context of circular agriculture and the rising costs of fertilizers also present arable...

With more than a decade of research and development in soil science, crop nutrition needs and uptake, Emerald Research Ltd (ERL) is...

More than 20 years after the first release of the human genome, scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max...

Potato production in SSA is increasing rapidly just like in other developing countries. Most of the potato produced is consumed...

In 2022, GreenLight anticipates receiving US regulatory approval of its RNA-based product for controlling the Colorado potato beetle. Recently, the...

Setting up a potato cyst nematode (PCN) trap crop can naturally diminish nematode numbers by up to two-thirds. As chemical...

It is established that good market access is a driver of a sustainable potato production. To have a permanent market...

Maine researchers are in the testing phase of cross-pollinating potatoes in the hopes of creating a heat-resistant variety. Even so,...

For a successful potato industry that will bring about impact at household and national levels, a continuous production and storage...

Through four experimental studies in two production cycles, for the first time it was possible to develop the "critical dilution...

The genetic potential of high yielding varieties can be achieved only if quality seed is used together with good agricultural...

Critical shortage of quality seed of productive and adaptive varieties is probably the major constraint to potato production in SSA...

Over the last several years, agricultural producers have been pulled in multiple directions: improve water use efficiency, maintain profitability in...

Partnerships to Strengthening the Potato Value Chain At the African Potato Association conference in Addis Ababa in 2016, workshops were...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a...

John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato...

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by...

Irving Farms of Caribou and Corey Rioux & Sons of Fort Kent will receive more than USD180,000 to help install...

FERA is launching Enigma, an R&D model for the agri-food sector and is inviting interested parties to register for the...

An official from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the investigation into the discovery of potato wart in two...

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