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Potatoes may, in many ways, be the perfect candidate for precision agriculture.They’re a high-volume, high-value and high-input crop and the industry has already invested more than other sectors in soil and drainage ...

Pepsico's joint venture in Egypt, Chipsy For Food Industries SAE, announced a major agricultural programme to produce all seed potatoes locally.This is a follow up on Chipsy’s long journey of conducting scientific ...

Today, a new potato processing plant was officially opened in Lipetsk by Ivan Lebedev, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, and by Oleg Korolev, head of the ...

Vietnam's Lam Dong Province has approved a programme to build a Da Lat potato brand to prevent farmers from selling cheap Chinese potatoes disguised as potatoes from Da Lat, which are more ...

Organisations representing potato farmers in Belgium and France, ABS (Algemeen Boerensyndicaat, Flanders), FWA (Walloon Federation of Agriculture) and UNPT (National Union of Potato Producers, France), jointly started Interreg project GEPOS to look ...

Farmers, fish advocates, tribes and government officials are headed to federal court in California on Wednesday (today) to argue who will get water — and when — in the Klamath Basin. Federal ...

Potato growers supplying McDonald’s are set to benefit from the provision of free agronomy skills training to improve crop performance and quality with the launch of the MacFry Potato Academy.  The Academy ...

The Northwest American potato industry wants to increase average yields by 10 tons per acre in the next two decades, says Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission.  Expansion ...

China’s potato chip production continues to grow in response to strong market demand, according to a report presented by USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. Industry sources estimate China’s MY2017/18 sliced potato chip and ...

Italian new potatoes supplied by Branston were available on the shelves of 400 Tesco stores at the end of October. The season will run for five weeks and is the last seasonal ...

Indian company ITC Ltd has entered the fresh fruits and vegetables market under the “Farmland” brand of products by launching value-added potatoes such as low sugar varieties, potatoes with antioxidants, baby potatoes ...

Last June, Oliveira Pinho & Filhos, a family business dedicated to the trade of bagged potatoes and onions (located in the municipality of Mira, Portugal), purchased a Sentinel II optical food sorter ...

PepsiCo launched a new Lay’s potato chips production line at its plant in Kashira, ending a two-year investment project on production capacity increase. Kashira is PepsiCo’s largest snacks production site in Europe ...

McCain Foods Ltd., the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, has opened its new USD65m potato specialty production line at its flagship facility in Florenceville-Bristol, N.B. The new 35,000 sqf production ...

At the end of October, starch manufacturer VPP “Vimal” will open a new plant on the outskirts of Chernihiv, Ukraine. Launching a new company will increase the production capacity of the company ...

Spanish company Patatas Torres has recently released new potato chips flavored with a fusion of sparkling wine.  The chips are described as having “a fruity flavor with a slight bubbling effect.” Patatas ...

Dieddenbach’s Potato Chips has announced that they will be partnering with VivaKids to help fight hunger around the world by reducing food waste. “We are extremely excited about partnering with VivaKids organization, ...

Canadian firm The Little Potato Company held a ceremony to mark the opening of its first U.S. processing facility in DeForest, Wisconsin, completing an expansion first announced in 2016. One hundred workers are currently ...

British Pipers Crisps potato chips’ newest brand will partner with the Liberty Richter division of World Finer Foods, a premier marketer of imported and domestic specialty foods in the U.S, for a ...

Key vendors of potato harvesting equipment are Spudnik Equipment Company, Lockwood, Double L, The Grimme Group & Advanced Farm Equipment, according to the report “Global Potato Harvesters Market Size, Market Share, Application ...

Branston is now one of the biggest potato suppliers in the UK. The company, with three well positioned sites, to give easy access to the best potato crops in Lincoln, Ilminster and Perth, supplies fresh and ...

A new luxury chips brand was created by the fourth generation potato farmers Mike Russell Smith and Colette Cronje: Savoursmiths. Brand design agency Mystery Ltd has helped with naming, brand identity, packaging ...

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm will host the first Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon on August 18 -19, where leading technological companies will demonstrate unmanned aircraft systems, featuring advanced crop sensors and ...

Dutch equipment specialist Sormac made its name as an expert in solutions for potato peeling. The company has been building on this knowhow for almost a century, leading to a portfolio that ...

The UK potato supplier Branston has begun work on its GBP5m plant extension that will process potatoes destined for the convenience sector and create 20 new jobs in Lincoln. The 1,700 sq ...