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Colombia’s leading potato-producing department is backing its smallholder associations with certified seed, fertiliser and technical support, putting most of the money into planting material. Some 126 growers in 12 associations are taking part, with each association receiving…
Royal HZPC Group has been granted a patent for a potato with significantly increased levels of flavonoids — natural antioxidants — while keeping the familiar white or yellow flesh that consumers expect, the Dutch breeding company announced…
Potato prices in India fell 11.5% year on year in September 2026 even as food inflation accelerated to 7.74%, with onion and garlic prices surging instead.
On International Day of Rural Women, marked on 15 October, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) highlighted how potato farming is changing household economics in Nepal’s remote Jumla district, where women make up around 80 per cent…
Potato starch keeps its place in food, paper and industrial applications that value its large granules and high viscosity.
Regional harvesting reports put Moscow oblast’s potato yields ahead of the country-wide average as the campaign concludes.
McCain Foods has agreed to acquire Falcon Agrifriz Foods’ frozen potato processing business in Gujarat, India — an automated plant in Kadi with over 450 employees and ties to more than 1,000 farmers — weeks after cancelling…
A CIP-organized field exchange at northern Vietnam’s Nam Cuong cooperative has highlighted how potato cropping fits into rice-based rotations — with mechanized straw composting, seed supply and cooperative economics as the decisive links. A field exchange in…
Average yield stood at 215.2 c/ha; vegetables were gathered from 1,400 hectares.
The Tyumen region district reported a yield of 190.5 c/ha as its 2026 harvest campaign concluded.
Chinese researchers have built a cytosine base editing system for potato that raises average editing efficiency to 76.7%, about 2.9 times the level of the unoptimized editor, according to a study in Horticulture Research (DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhag122) highlighted…
Bangladesh's President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called for transforming agriculture into a profitable, revenue-generating sector, singling out the country's potato paradox: growers in the north are sometimes left with no choice but to dump produce on…
