Between August 2019 and April 2020 Solidaridad Mozambique and Solynta executed the first hybrid TPS field trial ever in Mozambique: growing potatoes from true seeds rather than traditional seed potatoes. ...
The use of field robots was one of the focal points on the first day of the 22nd Work Science Colloquium at the Agroscope Research Institute in Tänikon TG. Researchers ...
In 2020, Flemish area consumer potatoes remained stable compared to 2019. In 2020 Flanders will have 54,230 hectares of potatoes. In the main production areas (Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands ...
The Sevillian company Intersur 2011 and the Albaceteña company Agromar Hispana have created the Intersur group, which already produces more than 100,000 tons of potatoes to packers who sell them to ...
Global players and farmers around the world are committed to meeting the needs of growing populations by producing more, using less land and fewer resources, and implementing sustainable agriculture practices. ...
Potato Days in the Netherlands is an internationally known event on the annual potato industry event schedule. Every year in November, the event is organized by several companies, including potato breeder ...
While crop protection products play an important role in vegetable production, poor spray application techniques can lead to ineffective pest control, yield reduction, wasted product and lower returns to the ...
Dutch Potato Packer Leo de Kock Gets Complete Box Emptying LineOct 13, 2020 VHM Machinery has installed several machines at Leo de Kock. This company is VHM Machinery's fruit and ...
The Pesticides Initiative calls for a ban on synthetic pesticides in Switzerland and a ban on imports of food produced with pesticides. It will not be put to the vote ...
Ireland’s IPM Potato Group markets and distributes seed potatoes in every continent except Antarctica. The Irish potato variety accounts for a “significant proportion” of hectares under seed in countries like ...
After losing two nights of sleep over shrinking potato yields, Kevin Grass rolled out of bed at 3 a.m. on a late-September morning and began crunching numbers to figure out ...
The potato harvest is nearing completion. Most of the fields have already been dug up, the result pleasing. 2020 is a very good potato year. "The harvest is above average," ...
POCATELLO — Interest in the Idaho State Department of Agriculture’s annual specialty crop program was up considerably this year compared with last year. ISDA has announced it will award a ...
With a number of dry summers in a row Alternaria has become an annual phenomenon in potatoes. Cro Advisor Sander Uwland of Bayer expects the disease to be a keeper, ...
The aim of the Plant Protection Implementation Programme is to realise a trend break, in order to arrive at cultivation systems that are less dependent on chemistry. Ten parties, two ...
Tissue culture technology is being widely used for large-scale plant multiplication and gives a science-based solution for plant propagation, disease elimination and plant improvement, said Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) ...
ABSTRACT CRISPR-cas gene editing in crop plants could significantly speed up the progress of breeding programs. Strikingly in the agricultural sector, the number of CRISPR-cas patents originating from Europe trails ...
The southern Wetterau is a stronghold for organic and conventional potato cultivation. Farmers from Karben and Bad Vilbel are looking forward to a below-average harvest this year. And the Corona ...
Major stakeholders in agricultural mechanisation have called for the adoption of a value chain approach to mechanisation as one of the best options towards attaining high productivity in agriculture on ...
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) will investigate wild potato varieties for resistance to a wide range of potato diseases and pests. This broad approach makes breeding material available with which ...
A storage facility capable of storing 11,000 tonnes of potatoes has opened at South Burnie. The facility, which can hold 9,000 tonnes in cold-storage long term as well as a ...
The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress and food policy. The history of crop domestication offers many ...
The Bender clan are potato people. From raising tubers especially for potato chips to the everyday table spud, they are experts in growing America’s most popular root vegetable. Given that, ...