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Potatoes.News Launches a Farsi Telegram Channel for Iran’s Potato Sector
Iran is our most engaged readership. We are now publishing potato industry reporting in Farsi on Telegram — diseases, varieties, nutrition and markets.
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Potato Crop Nutrition: NPK Rates, Timing and Deficiency Symptoms
How much N, P and K a potato crop actually needs, when to apply it, how regional practice differs, and how to read deficiency symptoms in the field
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Rosselkhoznadzor Inspects 452 Hectares of Potato Fields in Ulyanovsk Region, Finds No Quarantine Pests
From August 1 to 19, 2026, inspectors from Rosselkhoznadzor surveyed 452 hectares of potato plantings in the Staromainsky and Ulyanovsky districts of the Ulyanovsk region. The monitoring covered fields of two agricultural enterprises and also included inspections…
Fertilizers and pesticides
Dangerous Pesticides Found in Russian Potato Crops; Farm Issued Warning
Russia's agricultural watchdog, the Ural Interregional Directorate of Rosselkhoznadzor, has issued a formal warning to an agricultural firm in the Krasnoarmeysky district after detecting multiple hazardous chemicals in potato plants. During inspections carried out from July 31…
AGROTECHNOLOGY
Alternaria solani (Early Blight): Symptoms, Identification and Control
Alternaria solani (Early Blight): Symptoms, ID and Control Meta Description: How to identify early blight on potato and tomato, tell it apart from late blight, and control it with rotation, nutrition and fungicide programmes.
Harvesting
China Surges to Second Place in Potato Supplies to Russia, Overtaking Belarus and Azerbaijan
In a significant shift in agricultural trade, China has become the second-largest supplier of potatoes to Russia over the past two years, surpassing traditional partners Belarus and Azerbaijan. According to Alexey Krasilnikov, Executive Director of the Potato…
Harvesting
Russia Faces 2.5–3 Million Ton Potato Storage Deficit, Threatening Self-Sufficiency and Market Stability
Russia currently lacks sufficient storage capacity for 2.5 to 3 million tons of potatoes, a shortfall that undermines the country's ability to achieve full self-sufficiency between harvest seasons, according to Alexey Krasilnikov, Executive Director of the Potato…
Harvesting
Bryansk Region Reinforces Agricultural Leadership with Strategic Crop Shifts and Record Rapeseed Expansion
Bryansk Region has cemented its position as a key agricultural hub in Central Russia, wrapping up its sowing campaign with a total of 765,800 hectares of farmland under cultivation. This season’s results highlight the adaptability of the…
Harvesting
Dagestan’s Potato Sector Expands Amid Weather Challenges and Modernization Efforts
This year, Dagestan has allocated nearly 19,000 hectares of farmland to potato cultivation, with 40% of this area concentrated in the Levashinsky, Akushinsky, Khasavyurtovsky, and Buynaksky districts. While almost 98% of the region’s potatoes are grown in…
Seeds
From a Test Tube in the Netherlands to a Plate in China: How a French Fry Variety Is Built
Martin Jansen Klomp, who leads the French Fries sector business team at Royal HZPC Group, spent several weeks in China meeting the partners who brought the Ivory Russet variety into commercial production. His main takeaway is a…
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229 Countries in Three Months: Who Reads POTATOES NEWS, and Why We’re Opening Partnerships for 2026–2027
We rarely write about ourselves. But once a year it's worth showing the numbers — if only so you know where the footage shot in your field ends up, and who watches it. What follows is how…
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Sandıklı’s Summer Potato Harvest Begins – Black Soil and Two-Month Shelf Life Set the Region Apart
In the Sandıklı district of Afyonkarahisar, one of Turkey's premier agricultural hubs, the summer potato harvest is now in full swing. Known as the country's "potato warehouse," this region cultivates potatoes on approximately 80,000–100,000 decares of land,…