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France: Fries World Championship Draws 70,000 as CNIPT Seeks Flexible Size Rules
Seventy thousand visitors at the Fries World Championship in Arras, as the CNIPT calls for flexible size rules after a summer of heatwaves.
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Processing
Global: Acrylamide Management Starts in the Field, Not the Fryer
Reducing sugars set at harvest and in storage determine acrylamide risk at frying; variety choice, harvest maturity and storage temperature do most of the work.
Climate
Global: Climate Variability Forces Earlier Harvest Planning Decisions
Unpredictable autumns mean harvest windows open and close faster; farms that pre-plan lifting order and labor flexibility capture crops that weather once destroyed.
Investigations
Russia and the CIS: Mir Cards, Sanctions and a Company With No Legal Entity — Who Do You Complain To?
For Russian travellers, Trip.com has become one of the few windows onto international air travel — the service accepts Mir cards. But that window has no Russian address: in a dispute, the defendant is a Singapore company,…
Growing seeds
Global: Hybrid True Potato Seed Reaches First Commercial Markets
Hybrid true potato seed has reached commercial release in Kenya, promising disease-free, easily stored planting material shipped in grams instead of tonnes.
Australia and Oceania
Australia: Processing Potato Price Dispute Highlights Contract Fragility
McCain's bid for a further AUD 15 per tonne cut in Tasmanian contract prices, after Simplot's move, exposes how dependent growers are on a handful of processors.
Investigations
The Shareholder Lawsuit: What the Company Knew About the Risk, and When It Told Investors
In spring 2026 a US investor filed a class action against Trip.com Group, accusing the company of understating its regulatory risk in China. Two and a half months later the plaintiff withdrew the case himself — and…
Processing
Russia Halves Potato Imports as Europe and the US Cut Area: Global Supply Tightens Ahead of Winter
Russia imported 420,000 tonnes of potatoes in the first half of 2026, nearly half the volume of a year earlier, while the EU and the US have cut potato area. Analysts expect processed potato products to show…
Regions
Russia: A Big Potato Harvest Is No Guarantee of Low Prices, Rossiyskaya Gazeta Analysis Finds
The 2026 organized-sector harvest may reach around 8 million tonnes, yet abundant supply does not automatically translate into cheap potatoes for consumers.
News
POTATOES NEWS Daily Digest: October 20, 2026
Bangladesh's president urges cold-storage expansion, Kyrgyzstan reports a 965,000-tonne harvest, new US import rules for PEI potatoes, Colombia drafts a 50% cost-cut plan, and floods hit Crete.
Investigations
The Agent–Airline Loop: Who Owes You the Refund for a Cancelled Flight
The most widespread complaint about Trip.com worldwide sounds the same everywhere: the airline sends the passenger to the agent, the agent sends them back to the airline, and the money sits somewhere in between. We look at…
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