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The potato harvest is in full swing across the Konya Plain in Turkey, with crews working from dawn until dusk: mechanized digging is followed immediately by manual sorting and loading. The work is being carried out by…
Austria's weekly potato market report says supply remains tight and that continuous supply with domestic table potatoes alone is now considered unrealistic.
Traders and cold-store owners give opposing accounts of a clash in Rajshahi on 21 September. The official storage rent is Tk 6 per kg, and diesel now costs Tk 20 more per litre.
Manitoba Agriculture's weekly potato report says digging ranges from not yet started to 40% done across farms, with rain forecast to interrupt the harvest.
Almost 90% of responding companies see a need to move to robust varieties. More than 80% say a new variety has failed for them, and robust potatoes are about 1% of the Belgian field volume.
The head of the Plodovi Srbije association says Serbia has become a potato importer, relying mainly on Belgium, the Netherlands and France, even though this year's domestic crop is better than last year's.
The "Kendala" farm in Kokshetau district, Zhetisu region, has harvested Kazakhstan's first potato crop grown specifically for chip production. The variety "VR 808" was planted on 33 hectares, yielding 23–25 t/ha with a dry matter content of…
The potato industry expects about 8 million tonnes in 2026, 6% less than in 2025. The Urals have harvested 294,000 tonnes so far, and retail prices fell by 3.4% in a week.
Following directives from Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk, Egypt's horticultural producers' union and state agencies agreed to survey farmers' seed needs and set up demonstration fields for locally produced seed.
Nicaragua's Ministerio Agropecuario says eight northern municipalities harvested about 6,500 tonnes of potatoes in September, mainly for the domestic market.
A federal court in Illinois has refused to dismiss most consumer claims that Lamb Weston, McCain, J.R. Simplot and Cavendish Farms coordinated prices for frozen potato products.
During a farm visit in the Mogilev region, the Belarusian president said the country must grow more potatoes and told the government to find sales markets, naming Russia and Uzbekistan.
