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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 ...

With the rise of precision agriculture solutions, the farming industry has become increasingly tech savvy. Many growers and producers have embraced GPS-enabled tractors, variable-rate fertilizer applications, and smart platforms that monitor everything ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of its leaves. The research led by Dr. Srikant ...

Potato growers on P.E.I. are turning to technology to help them track spores from late blight and other airborne diseases that could damage their crops.  One of the companies doing the monitoring ...

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of its leaves.

Eugenia Banks of the Ontario Potato Board has created a resource on late blight, updated for the 2021 growing season.

Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.

North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the ...

Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing the impact of Potato Early Dying (PED) disease — a long-established yield ...

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

re you using the right fungicides for the potato diseases you are attempting to control? Understanding how fungicides work can help you choose the right product and apply it for the best effect. Here ...

mancozeb also contains manganese and zinc as an extra added value on top of the fungicidal effect

Plant pathologists studied the genomes of about 140 pathogen samples – historic and modern – from 37 countries on six continents to track the evolution of differing strains of Phytophthora infestans, a major ...

Scientists hope to use a type of virus called a bacteriophage to infect bacteria that causes blackleg in potato plants, said Michele Konschuh, a research associate in the University of Lethbridge’s biological ...

Due to (global) logistics problems in the supply of raw materials, the supply of various crop protection products is becoming increasingly difficult. Moreover, traders have to order longer in advance because manufacturers ...

Farm inputs are becoming more and more expensive for farmers. This also means that the costs of agricultural production are exploding

Denis Statsenko from Kiev, thanks to the introduction of the latest technologies, has built his own potato business in Chernihiv region for nine years and has become a top supplier of raw ...

Three academic experts, including Richard E. Goodman from the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program, shed light on defeating late blight disease of potato in sub-Saharan Africa, starting with a brief introduction ...

In the Netherlands, 9.3 million kilos of crop protection products were sold in 2019

A cross country check-in on what to expect for potato diseases this growing season.

potato growers need to be aware of the value of inputs now

Just how much does the space between your rows affect your potatoes

very important factor for the effectiveness of a crop protection product is the weather

verticillium wilt is a serious disease that diminishes quality and causes significant yield loss by reducing tuber size.

Studies have shown that adopting a gender perspective while conducting agronomic research and extension work provides more efficient approaches to managing pests and diseases at the field level.