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Potatoes in Tehran shops now cost up to twice the wholesale price, while quality problems add to buyers' anger. The retailers' union has started market-regulation sales at about 69,000 toman per kilogram.
Dutch storage firm Omnivent, which says it has 400,000 tonnes of storage capacity in India, told the Global Potato Summit that every hour of ventilation dries potatoes. It urges heat-load design, renovation and earlier equipment orders.
Royal HZPC Group's commercial chief sees export chances for Indian seed potatoes but says rules block them now. He asks the trade to push for bilateral seed agreements.
Issyk-Kul region produced 35.4% of Kyrgyzstan's potatoes in 2023. National output rose from 362,000 tonnes in 1992 to more than 1.4 million tonnes in 2015 and has eased since.
The Xinhua price index for Dingxi, a major potato hub in Gansu, shows farm-gate prices easing as northern harvest supplies grow. Starch from local factories is 9.80% cheaper than a year ago.
EKSLi's Russian sorter uses computer vision and AI and is already in active use at Russian enterprises
"Krasa Meshchery" is one of the flagship projects of cooperation between Chuvashia and the Lorch Federal Research Center of Potato. Registered in the State Register in 2020, this mid-season table variety was bred by the Lorch Center…
After-cooking darkening depends on the balance of chlorogenic and citric acid in the tuber. Variety matters most, but soil, nutrition and storage time can turn a good crop into a spring discount.
AAFC scientists are testing tiny true potato seeds as a cheaper alternative to heavy seed tubers for northern communities, but a crop from seed runs about two weeks late.
Weekly price quotations from three German states show stable or slightly lower producer prices for table potatoes in late September. In Hesse, prices are still more than twice as high as a year ago.
Without a haulm topper or with the weather closing in, many growers lift potatoes under still-green foliage. Extension research on skin set shows where this is acceptable and why such lots need separate handling in storage.
When the harvest outruns storage capacity, a field clamp can buy time instead of selling at the seasonal low. FAO guidance and classic clamp design show where the limits are: size, cover, ventilation and temperature control.
