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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.
According to a Polish company, Magnolia, Stokrotka and Tonacja were presented in Kenya. Photographs supplied by the company show labelled tubers and exhibition activity. Local agronomic performance remains unverified.
GRIMME launched a dedicated Africa unit in January 2026. Its area sales manager says Africa has the greatest growth potential for potatoes and that low-horsepower SHAKTIMAN GRIMME equipment is being tested in Zimbabwe.
Fruitinfo's week-43 review marks the end of the seasonal price slide as the new crop settles into storage.
The average retail price reached 51 rubles per kilogram in September; in Moscow chains ordinary potatoes sell at 50-59 RUB/kg and washed ones at 68-90 RUB/kg.
The 26-30 October congress in Naivasha combined scientific sessions with field demonstrations and seed-system workshops, drawing delegates from 62 countries.
Belgium remained the top buyer, lifting imports 29.7%, while shipments to Germany fell by more than half amid a reduced Northwest European harvest.
EUROPLANT Potatoes UK Ltd, led by newly appointed managing director James Paice, aims to deepen work with local growers and expand licensing of the breeder's varieties.
Capacity at the Sanadar plant rises from 2 to 5 tonnes of fries per hour after a ₹51.65 crore expansion inaugurated remotely by PM Modi.
Colombia's agriculture ministry and Fedepapa will work four fronts — irrigation, certified seed, knowledge transfer, mechanization — to cut small growers' labor costs by up to 50%, with field sessions starting 25 October in Villapinzón.
With ware potato production in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands estimated by NEPG at about 20.7 million tonnes, 25.4% below its 2025 estimate, growers’ organisations are asking buyers for flexibility on tuber size and length. The…
A fourth-quarter outlook from the Commodity Board points to reduced plantings in the United States, the European Union and China and to firmness in the fresh-potato market. Large stocks of fries, starch and dehydrated products are holding…
