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The Belgian association of potato traders and processors will again publish prices for two varieties, Fontane and Challenger, every Friday at 8 a.m. In the first three weeks of the season, there were too few trades outside…
India's largest potato-producing state is building export infrastructure around the new Noida International Airport at Jewar, with West Asia, Europe and Russia named as target markets. The plans are ambitious, but the first shipments are measured in…
Almaty region shows the highest wholesale quotes at 190–290 tenge per kg, while most regions trade at 100–150 tenge, according to data compiled by a Kazakh market research bureau.
The Hesse agricultural office puts conventional table potatoes at €36.75 per 100 kg in week 39, against €17.25 a year earlier — while the only exchange-traded potato hedge in Germany closed in June.
The Croptiscan 3000 scans a 3-metre strip of seed-potato crop at about 1.5 hectares an hour for PVY and leafroll, at roughly half the price of the company's self-driving machine of the same width.
The Pakistan-Korea project, run with KOPIA at the National Agricultural Research Centre in Islamabad, aims to build a local certified seed system with aeroponic facilities and trained staff.
Potato harvesting in Russia's Stavropol region is approaching the halfway point, with more than 2,000 hectares — 43% of the planned area — already cleared across ten districts. Roughly 83,000 tonnes have been lifted at a yield…
Of 3.04 million tonnes put into 332 cold stores in the Agra area, only about 45% has been taken out, and a buyer-seller meeting produced just eight deals.
Farmers in Bathinda and Jagraon report prices of ₹5–7 per kg against last year's ₹10–15, while storage and handling costs eat most of the crop's value.
Dutch breeder Meijer Potato shows a Lady Alicia harvest in Kyrgyzstan. It is one more sign that Central Asia is starting to grow potatoes specifically for crisp production.
The Gansu city reports 1.5 billion virus-free minitubers a year, 5 million tonnes of potatoes and a 28 billion yuan industry chain. The figures come from local officials and were repeated by state media.
The 31st Congress of the Latin American Potato Association will be held in Montevideo on 19–23 April 2027. Organisers have confirmed a field day at Vicentina S.A. in San José department.
