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Farm Frites says its frozen French fries factory in Sudair Industrial and Business City, Saudi Arabia, started production in July 2026. The facility is a joint venture with Americana Foods. The company reports initial annual capacity of…
Potato prices at farm gate, ex-warehouse, wholesale, processor contract and retail levels reflect different transactions. Comparing them without adjustments can create misleading impressions of shortages, trade opportunities and growers' returns.
The forecast contrasts with Rosstat-based reports of an 8.7% year-on-year decline in early-October volumes.
In South Ethiopia, Vita/RTI Ethiopia, together with Arba Minch University and the University of Pennsylvania, piloted the PlantVillage mobile application through a youth-led extension model known as the Ethiopian Dream Team. According to the poster, the pilot…
In the hills of south-eastern Bangladesh, a community development programme is helping indigenous farmers grow potatoes with better seed, loans and training. The poster describes three seed approaches – positive selection, hybrid true potato seed and apical…
In Rwanda, where potato consumption exceeds 100 kg per person per year, yields remain low mainly because farmers recycle their own tubers and lack access to high-quality seed. A poster by Evariste Nsabimana (Seed Potato Fund Joint…
Average yield reached 291 c/ha as the region's harvest campaign enters the home stretch, the regional agriculture ministry said.
Wholesale prices for premium Agata potatoes averaged R$77–78 per 25 kg sack across Brazil's three main markets. An election-weekend lull in harvesting drove the increase, and prices eased day by day once fieldwork restarted. Average wholesale prices…
Harvesting was 87% complete; the Urals was the exception among regions as heat alternated with excessive rain.
One of Siberia's largest agricultural regions has closed its vegetable season, the regional agriculture minister said.
Two research reports from Yemen’s Dhamar valley show high yields from the first multiplication of imported Dutch seed, rising virus and disease pressure in the second, and a first season of trials with rooted cuttings as a…
Potatoes.News welcomes Associate Professor Nomali Ngobese (North-West University, South Africa) to the Potato Expert Panel. Her answers on sprout suppression, spatial sciences for smallholders and what the industry can learn from Africa.
