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Potatoes are the most important vegetable grown in Israel and are an important crop in the Negev desert region in the southern part of Israel. Being a desert region rainfall is between ...

High heat in the early summer can lead to reduced yield and deformed potatoes on farmers, said Washington State Potato Commission Executive Director Chris Voigt in a Herald telephone interview. A potato ...

New research on Prince Edward Island is using mustard and arugula to tackle pest problems in potato fields with a side benefit, farmers hope, of making the soil healthier at the same time. And ...

Researchers from breeding company Solynta and Wageningen University & Research have identified, cloned and characterized the key gene for self-fertilization in diploid potatoes. This discovery makes it possible to fertilize potato plants with their own pollen. Now SLI gene ( S-locus inhibitor) ...

For potato growers in Idaho and Washington — the two most productive potato-growing states in the country — the lack of rainfall thus far hasn’t hurt farmers’ access to irrigation water.

We are continuing our successful Show & Tell sessions on Eleaporation benefits. This time we will focus on the French fries industry. On 14 and 15 July, we are offering the opportunity ...

Italian and Cypriot imports continued to dominate the market for table potatoes. Meanwhile, domestic offerings continued to gain in importance.

A variety trial in potato was set up in Lennik as part of the Potato Agricultural Center. The aim is to find a worthy alternative to Fontane and Innovator, each of which ...

Christian Miller feeds thousands of kids a day. As supervisor for central food production within the Unified School District 259 Wichita Public Schools in Kansas, he oversees a kitchen that provides meals ...

In 20 years the potatoes ​area has fallen from 3,600 hectares to only 770

This season we are receiving a lot of reports of high levels of softening, dehydration and compression damage from potato store managers

During April 2021 we experienced cold dry conditions which haven’t been seen in some years. Moving into May much of the country has received, or is about to receive, some much needed ...

With propane engines, farmers can take back control of their farms with continuous access to reliable propane

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 ...

KABUL, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan harvested 855,395 metric tons of potatoes in all farms across the country in 2020, the country's Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock announced on Sunday. "Most ...

TEHRAN- As announced by a director in the Iranian Agriculture Ministry, the country’s export of potato increased by 83 percent in the past Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20), as compared ...

Farmer Bertrand Roussel had no choice. With the crisis, his unsold potatoes would have ended up in the trash

Seed potatoes from the United States have not been part of the Cuban cultural story for decades

Today, April 28, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled by a unanimous vote of five to zero in favor of overturning a 2017 lower court decision that prevented the Mexican federal government ...

Potatoes SA shares Limpopo Province potato farmer Johan Holtzhausen's story as he details how he had contracted Covid-19 and at the same time faced challenges that his business went through due to ...

Ways fixation might occur naturally or industrially

Sow, apply drip tape and create an anti-dust cover in one pass

Soil pH affects many aspects of crop production, especially nutrient availability. Most of our main field crops like a neutral soil pH from 6-7. Soils with a pH higher than 7.5 are ...

Growing up in agriculture seems to instill in kids a tenacious sense of independence and accountability

For generations, farmers in Victoria's west have grown some of Australia's most productive crops.