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Prepared exclusively for Potatoes.NewsAstana, Republic of Kazakhstan https://youtu.be/nTDcmTWrQas The International Potato Tour (IPT) continues its journey across countries where potatoes are not just a crop but a strategic commodity. This time, the team arrived in Astana, the…
The International Potato Tour (IPT) continues to bring readers closer to the global leaders of the potato industry. This time, the Potatoes.News team visited Kazakhstan, where we met with a representative of Solana, one of the world’s…
Rostov-on-Don, Russia.The International Potato Tour continues to explore leading enterprises of the agricultural sector. This time, the team visited the legendary Rostselmash plant — a symbol of Russian agricultural machinery that supplies equipment to dozens of countries…
In Novosibirsk Oblast’s Ordynsky district, Dary Ordynska has grown from a 2010 start (40 ha of potatoes) into a diversified vegetable producer. The farm supplies regional retail chains on long-running agro-contracts and ships to distant regions by…
In Altai Krai’s unusually collaborative veg-growing scene, SOYUZAGRO stands out: nearly 1,000 ha of potatoes, steady processor partnerships, and a deliberate push on equipment and storage. The 2024 season was the toughest in the farm’s history (ridge…
Uchumskaya (Uzhursky District, near Lake Uchum) is a grain–oilseed farm that added potatoes three seasons ago. Now it’s running its own new potato store (2023/24) and has tripled area from 150 to 465 ha this season after…
Nemirov Group farms ~1,000–1,600 ha of potatoes (by year), traces its roots to 1991, and leans on full mechanization, long storage (selling into late spring), and stable contracts with national retailers. Next steps: a ~10,000-ton cold store,…
At the Krasnoyarsk Agrarian University, a Center for Breeding and Seed Production runs parallel programs in potatoes and soybean: testing rotations, multiplying high seed classes, advancing lines toward the State Register, and—together with Avgust—trialing protection schemes on…
In a strategic move to capture greater market share and value, the Northland Potato Growers Association (NPGA) is shifting its promotional focus squarely onto red tablestock potatoes. At the heart of their campaign at the International Fresh…
The International Potato Tour (Международный картофельный тур) continues with a stop at the Babushkin family farm—an operation that treats soil as a living system and seed quality as a promise. In this two-part field report, farmer Andrey…
Since 2012, the Popov family — Vyacheslav and his son Artyom — has been growing the classic “borsch set” and potatoes in the Yaroslavl region. Today, YarOvoshi operates three distinct potato streams (seed, table, and chip processing),…
The recent 40th anniversary of the Wiesbacher Kartoffelmarkt (Potato Market) in Germany offers a compelling model for agricultural value-added promotion. This annual festival, which draws hundreds of visitors from across the region, is far more than a…
