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Home consumption of fresh potatoes increased by eight percent last year.

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LW) issued its second annual Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) report today, which included new 2030 ESG goals. The company also announced that in partnership with European joint ...

A special and successful virtual event for the potato sector! On 10 June the European potato community virtually gathered for the Europatat Congress 2021 Under the slogan “Stayconnected – new strategies for ...

The European Commission has set an EU-wide objective for all packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030. But chips bags (crisp packets) are a particular headache for policymakers and the recycling ...

The problem of the resistance of the Colorado beetle to the active substances of insecticides of various chemical groups, the palette of which gradually shrinks, makes it difficult to fight this pest.

Uganda’s GM potato breeding technology is now being adopted where permitted — in Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt and South Africa.

Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics ...

Following the first anniversary of the publication of the Farm to Fork Strategy by the European Commission, Europatat and twelve other association members of the Agri-Food Chain Roundtable on Plant Protection have ...

Calls are growing to save the Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR) center from the fallout surrounding AHDB Potatoes, after it emerged all its research activity will cease by May 2022. In ...

French potato producer PARMENTINE has equipped its new line in Samazan with two optical sorters from TOMRA Food – one the TOMRA 5A, the other the Sentinel II. SA PARMENTINE processes 180,000 ...

Solids handling specialist, Ajax Equipment, has supplied leading European pre-fried and frozen potato product producer, Agristo, with a continuous mixer featuring enhanced mirror polish finish. The latest mixer operates in addition to Ajax ...

Potato breeder HZPC believes that old EU legislation should make way for new techniques for plant breeding. The potato trading house therefore embraces the conclusions of the European Commission study on new genomic ...

The export of seed potatoes in April 2021 decreased compared to April 2020 from 753,731 tons to 709,010 tons. The export of ware potatoes over the last 12 months was 170,205 (x 1,000 ...

The acreage also appears to be declining in the rest of northwestern Europe, with estimates suggesting a decrease of three to even five percent.

On the global market, China is the largest producer of potatoes. In 2018 the country's annual production was estimated at 90 million tonnes. India ranks second with 48 million tonnes while Ukraine ...

In 2020, the three leaders in global potato production maintain their positions: China is nearing 100 million tonnes followed by India and Russia. Other major players on the market include Ukraine, the United States, ...

The small European country of Belgium is the undisputed king of french fries worldwide. In just under 30 years, the sector grew by 1,000%. If it is up to french fries producer ...

The Romanian Farmers Club and the Romanian National Potato Federation propose to the authorities the implementation of a National Strategic Potato Plan, to save an economic sector in great difficulty and harmonise ...

At the end of April, the early early potatoes began to be harvested in Andalusia, mainly in the province of Seville, but also on plots in Córdoba, Cádiz and Huelva.  These potatoes ...

Nicolás Serna is 74 years old and has been growing potatoes all his life.

This is the philosophy of the seed house HZPC , a Dutch multinational leader in the production of seed potatoes.

In some species and in some crops, pest monitoring requires the use of additional tools. In many cases, their purchase is a low cost that pays for itself quickly. Every professional user  of plant ...

Europatat is part of an international consortium involved in the ADAPT (“  Accelerated Development of Multiple Stress Tolerant Potato Varieties  ”) research project, which aims to develop new strategies to make potatoes adapt to ...

HZPC buys certificates and then donates them to members / growers. In 2017, the price of such a certificate was still 200 euros

Our Fight Against Blight programme started in 2004 and since then ‘blight scouts’ have sent in over 10,000 samples of potentially blight infested potato plants for genotyping. Each year the results are ...