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Potato yields across France vary dramatically by region, with the Paris basin and northern areas consistently outperforming other parts of the country, according to official data for the 2024 and 2025 harvest years. Île-de-France recorded the highest…
University of Idaho and Washington State research shows that cold soil, excess water and uneven nitrogen at tuber initiation start brown center and hollow heart in potatoes.
AHDB, the University of Maine and the PNW handbook show why powdery scab and potato mop-top virus stay in soil for a decade or more, and why clean seed is the main defence.
Facing rising concerns over contamination, leading Japanese food manufacturers are turning to pest-resistant potatoes. Last week, Kewpie announced that its food service subsidiary plans to sell potato salad made from the Yumeikoro variety starting in fiscal 2027.…
Extension services in the US and the UK show why hot summers favour Dickeya blackleg over Pectobacterium, and why seed testing with 400 or more tubers per lot is the main defence.
Yakutia’s harvest campaign is in its final stage, with farms having collected 63,429 tonnes of potatoes as of October 5 — 83% of the planned target — alongside 21,802 tonnes of open-ground and greenhouse vegetables, or 75%…
Wageningen trials, PotatoWorld guidance and a Florida spacing study show that plant density, stem number and variety decide how many tubers end up in the small baby potato grade.
Mainland Tanzania produced 752,520 tonnes of Irish potatoes in the 2023/24 agricultural year at 10 t/ha, the national statistics bureau says. Small farms grow almost all of the crop.
The Dominican Republic produced 2,871,185 quintals of potatoes in 2025, up 5.4%, the Ministry of Agriculture says. Constanza holds about 44,000 of 55,000 tareas, and seed is still imported.
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 data exclude the Kurdistan Region.
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 tonnes as its yield dropped to 3,977 kg per dunum.
