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In a significant shift in agricultural trade, China has become the second-largest supplier of potatoes to Russia over the past two years, surpassing traditional partners Belarus and Azerbaijan. According to Alexey Krasilnikov, Executive Director of the Potato…
Russia currently lacks sufficient storage capacity for 2.5 to 3 million tons of potatoes, a shortfall that undermines the country's ability to achieve full self-sufficiency between harvest seasons, according to Alexey Krasilnikov, Executive Director of the Potato…
Bryansk Region has cemented its position as a key agricultural hub in Central Russia, wrapping up its sowing campaign with a total of 765,800 hectares of farmland under cultivation. This season’s results highlight the adaptability of the…
This year, Dagestan has allocated nearly 19,000 hectares of farmland to potato cultivation, with 40% of this area concentrated in the Levashinsky, Akushinsky, Khasavyurtovsky, and Buynaksky districts. While almost 98% of the region’s potatoes are grown in…
Martin Jansen Klomp, who leads the French Fries sector business team at Royal HZPC Group, spent several weeks in China meeting the partners who brought the Ivory Russet variety into commercial production. His main takeaway is a…
In the Sandıklı district of Afyonkarahisar, one of Turkey's premier agricultural hubs, the summer potato harvest is now in full swing. Known as the country's "potato warehouse," this region cultivates potatoes on approximately 80,000–100,000 decares of land,…
France will plant just 173,415 hectares of ware potatoes in 2026, a sharp 9.7% reduction from 2025's historic high of 192,099 hectares – a cut of nearly 19,000 hectares, according to a joint study by the National…
In a remarkable display of cross-border agricultural cooperation, scientists from Kazakhstan, Russia, and China have come together on a single experimental potato field near Kostanay to advance a shared project focused on colored-flesh potato varieties and integrated…
Researchers at the Institute of Agrobiotechnologies (Komi Scientific Center) have turned their fields into a living laboratory, testing methods to extract maximum yield from soil without excess chemicals or backbreaking labor. Their philosophy is radical yet simple:…
In the Limansky district, farmer Pavel Androsov is in the midst of harvest—but his fields tell a story of strategic crop rotation rather than just grain production. Two years ago, these same plots grew potatoes; today, they…
At the International Potato Center in Peru, over 4,000 native potato varieties are preserved as a living genetic bank—some as tubers, others as fragile sprouts in test tubes or cryogenically frozen at -200°C. This collection is a…
For decades, potato farmers in India's North-Eastern Hill (NEH) region have struggled with limited access to healthy, timely seed potatoes due to geographical isolation and reliance on degenerating local tubers. Despite efforts by ICAR-CPRI to supply breeder…
