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JAVIER MELENDEZ. From a childhood in the countryside to running the first national potato operator, Potatoes Meléndez A potato factory as the flagship of innovation for an entire sector? "Why not?"» Javier Meléndez, a ...

Capable operators fill gaps between functions and needs as industry flies high GUANGZHOU, China -- Use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones in agriculture is expanding in China at a speed unmatched ...

The Ministry of Agriculture will release two new potato varieties, which will benefit producers to improve their marketing. Ten organizations and more than 200 semi-llerists will be direct beneficiaries of the two ...

The Belgian FAM makes cutting machines for all the major fruit, fish, vegetable, potato, cheese and meat-related companies in the world. Nine-two percent is exports. 'Our machines are copied to the sea ...

On Monday in Hanover, the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture took stock of this year's harvest. Because 2020 was the third dry year in a row, crop yields were very different regionally, ...

Farmer Heinz-Wilhelm Tölkes shows potatoes that come fresh from the ground. Photo: Norbert Prümen Kempen. In the farmers' fields it is becoming empty. Currently, the potato harvest determines the picture. For this purpose, the ...

FAO Regional Conference breaks attendance record with more than 540 participants and close to 30,000 following it through digital platforms 21 October 2020, Managua/Santiago/Rome - The 36th Session of FAO's Regional Conference for ...

The Agriculture Council of Antigua City Council offers this free course on October 29, 30 and 31. For the first time in Antigua, a Workshop on potato cultivation is taught, being one ...

Obsession over expenses, old-school work ethic propel Louisiana farmer Sam Ross is the first into the farming fray. Look for the spot where the most work is in progress on the farm, ...

The dry, warmer-than-normal growing season this year presents significant challenges for managing soil and crop residue this fall. Excessively dry soil conditions this season make field preparation and tillage this fall challenging, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put packaging at a premium, marketers say. “We continue to see a shift towards consumers preferring packaged product,” said Ross Johnson, international marketing director with the Eagle-based Idaho Potato ...

I have an old friend – I guess all of the are old now – who helps us at harvest driving a truck. He commutes to our farm from about 50 miles ...

India on Saturday threw open its domestic market for certain agricultural commodities including potatoes from Bhutan. The decision is expected to help a large number of Bhutanese traders as India had stopped ...

As farmers continue to struggle with labor shortages, technology steps in with innovative tools to help bridge the gap. The United Nations estimates the world’s population will expand to nearly 10 billion ...

Danespo is the leading company in Northern Europe in the field of breeding, producing and selling quality ware and seed potatoes. We are recognized as a reliable and serious international supplier of ...

What did the agriculture industry learn about weed control in 2020? How can growers use what was learned to assemble weed control plans for 2021 and beyond? Willie Vogt, an executive director at ...

Agriculture is continuing to show resilience in the face of one of the most disruptive crises the world has ever seen. In the first quarter of the financial year ended June 2020, ...

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 seedlings ...

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 from Germany, ...

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 and the ...

Since its inception, Patatas Aguilar has focused its efforts on achieving a quality product. To do this, it has taken care of and control the product from planting, selecting the best seeds, ...

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 supermarkets. Currently, the ...

Turn 'crap', raw material residues that no one knows how to use, into a "more than optimal" fertilizer for our fields. This is the arduous mission carried out by the Spanish company Fertinagro Biotech. "Everything no ...

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. Such practices ...

"When I took over the farm from my uncle 16 years ago, I knew that animals alone no longer work for a full-time farm. That's why I was looking for alternatives and ...