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Group of farmers harvesting and bagging potatoes. Photo: enes çimen (Pexels) Kazakhstan's Pavlodar region has harvested a record 1 million tonnes of potatoes in 2026, with the regional Agriculture Department saying the surplus above local needs will…
A colorful assortment of carrots, potatoes and peppers at a local vegetable market. Photo: Aayurdha Binoy (Pexels) Potato growers in Sri Lanka's Badulla District have criticised the government's decision to buy local potatoes at Rs 220/kg, saying…
A display of diverse potato varieties at a German market. Photo: Ros NL (Pexels) German breeding group Europlant is setting up Europlant Potatoes UK Ltd to strengthen direct marketing of its varieties in Britain, appointing industry veteran…
Potatoes loaded for sale and transport. Photo: Haibo Ni (Pexels) Georgia exported just 19,400 tonnes of potatoes worth US$5.1 million in January–September 2026, down 75.5% from 79,200 tonnes a year earlier, according to Geostat data reported by…
An Egyptian farmer at work in the fields at sunrise. Photo: Ahmed Angil (Pexels) Egypt's potato exports to Kazakhstan surged from 220 tons in marketing year 2024/25 to roughly 4,000 tons in 2025/26 — an eighteen-fold rise…
A GB Potatoes survey puts the 2026 UK planted potato area at around 100,000 hectares, down 20% over a decade, even as the crop generated nearly £1.5 billion in 2025, per Defra.
A worker operating an industrial food processing machine. Photo: Sinan KRIYA (Pexels) FAM STUMABO will exhibit its Centris 400 and SureTec 240 industrial cutting machines at Gulfood Manufacturing 2026, running 3–5 November at the Dubai World Trade…
Sacks of harvested potatoes in the East African highlands (Kinigi, Rwanda). Photo: MuganinezA ArsenE (Pexels) The International Potato Center (CIP) and Crop Trust have launched a new phase of the BOLD project in Kenya, aiming to breed…
In a LinkedIn post, Salauddin Modasiya of M S International India Private Limited announced the start of Gujarat's new potato planting season, noting that daytime temperatures remain higher than usual.
Ravindranath Reddy, co-founder of SeedPot and a specialist in Apical Rooted Cutting technology, joins the Potato Expert Panel by Potatoes.News.
Santiago Cardoso, a third-generation potato producer from Mar del Plata, Argentina, joins the Potato Expert Panel by Potatoes.News.
Agnieszka Tołłoczko-Wróbel, a farmer from Szkotowo, Poland, who promotes Polish potato varieties, joins the Potato Expert Panel by Potatoes.News.
