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Australia potato supplier, Pye, will invest $35 million in a new potato packing facility at Parilla, 210 kilometres east of Adelaide in South Australia’s Mallee. The Pye Group’s multi-million-dollar investment in its ...

Last week, the North-western European Potato Growers (NEPG) association announced their harvest estimate for the 2020/2021 season. They reckon potato yields will be between 27 and 27,3 million tons. That's for the ...

The UAE’s adoption of drones in agriculture has made it one of the firsts in the world to integrate technology in food security and environmental protection, said Falcon Eye Drones Services (FEDS), ...

The use of drones in Indian agriculture has been an issue rife with debate, and the past decade has seen an equal measure of views emanating from endorsing and censuring camps. The ...

Robert Carl Stokes, the kingpin of crop insurance fraud, helmed a historic cabal that took advantage of graft and corruption at all levels of agriculture to the tune of at least $100 ...

‘Sometimes your truck needs a tuneup, maybe sometimes you yourself do’P.E.I.'s Farmer Assistance Program has seen an increased number of calls in each of the last three years from people in agriculture ...

Practice centre for Precision Agriculture at Van den Borne Potatoes in Reusel should grow into a Brabant Farm of the Future. Several parties spoke out on this last week. The province of ...

Researchers in southern Alberta are studying how potato farmers and their crops could benefit from new irrigation technology. Towards Climate-Robust Irrigation Water Management for Potato Production is now in the second year ...

Since 2000/01 potatoes accounted for approximately 45% of total vegetable crops produced in South Africa and contribute around R8.5 billion to the economy.  These numbers, however, are under threat due to a ...

CALS Researcher Leads National Project The University of Idaho will lead a $3.2 million project to combat microscopic worms that threaten potato production. The project, which focuses on the pale cyst nematode ...

Agritech Startup Agricx Is Helping Farmers Get A Fair Price By Grading And Certifying Their Produce With Its AI-Based SaaS Solution About 58% of India’s enormous 1.3 Bn population depends on agriculture to eke ...

Potato prices in West Bengal are currently ruling high at Rs 32-33 a kg as 15-20% of daily supply of the commodity is being exported to neighbouring states, traders have claimed.  They ...

The corona crisis leaves its mark on the potato market. Large stocks and less demand are currently disastrous for the trade in free potatoes. PotatoNL has not published a target price for ...

'The sector has risks, but at the moment they seem to lie mainly with the grower' Potatoes are again harvested en masse in September. But the economic shock of the corona crisis ...

“Understanding the mechanism of tuber initiation in potato provides a new strategy to increase yields of a crop that is absolutely pivotal for global food security.”

Summary BBSRC, on behalf also of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Scottish Government, announces a call for research to address ...

Live on September 15 • 12 p.m. CDT The Alberta government recently announced it was removing its fusarium restrictions, bringing its regulations in line with other provinces. We thought it as good a ...

• The Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna coordinates a consortium of 17European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EUassociation, a government agency and a screening technology ...

Scientists at the University of Strathclyde are working with partners to tackle one of the most damaging bacterial plant diseases in the UK, responsible for annual losses of £50m for the potato ...

Idaho’s potato industry is applauding a letter issued by the state’s two U.S. senators calling for increased access for U.S. fresh potato exports into Mexico. U.S. potato producers can ship frozen, processed ...

In Europe, the heat has caused a decrease in the consumption of potatoes, but also in the regrowth of new potatoes in the field. At the moment, this is resulting in difficult ...

James Hutton Institute plant scientists have discovered that a specific protein encoded by the potato genome is a key component of tuberisation, the process by which the potato plant initiates and develops ...

Eating french fries will cost more now as the price of potatoes increased by 63% in July 2020 compared to July 2019, according to the data released on Monday by the Pakistan ...

The potato industry in Ulanqab, dubbed the "potato city" of China, has become one of the main industries to help farmers shake off poverty. Located in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, ...

Scientists at The James Hutton Institute have unlocked the genetics of potato skin and flesh colour paving the way for new colourful varieties. A new study identified a genetic molecule that regulates ...