Indian government limits movement of seed potatoes to contain Potato Cyst Nematodes
In the gazette of India on October 12, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare had issued a notification that ...
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Turning potatoes into plant sensors for the US Military
Researchers with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will lead a new effort worth up to $7.5 million to ...
Potato Production in Moscow Oblast up 37 percent
Potato production in the Moscow Oblast in 2018 increased by 37% compared to the volumes of the previous year. This ...
New Mexican potato variety Citlali shows resistance to late blight and zebra chip disease
In Mexico, researchers of the National Forestry, Agriculture, and Livestock Research Institute (INIFAP), part of the Mexican Ministry of agriculture ...
United Kingdom signs deal allowing seed potato export to China
China’s developing taste for french fries (chips) and potato chips (crisps) will soon be fuelled by British produce, as International ...
Range of potato experiments underway at Maine Research Farm (Aroostook)
Farmers, researchers and members of the public gathered at the University of Maine’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle last ...
Tanzania, Netherlands sign potato deal
Tanzania and the Netherlands last week signed an agreement that will see the two countries cooperate in production of Irish ...
Potato Processing company J.R. Simplot acquires license for CRISPR-CAS9 gene editing technology
The J.R. Simplot Company announced today that it has executed a joint intellectual property licensing agreement with Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture ...
USDA looking for nominees for the National Potato Promotion Board
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominees to fill 56 producer and two importer member seats on the ...
Government Jamaica Calls on Farmers to Grow More Potatoes
Jamaican Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, has called on farmers in Manchester to produce more ...
The next frontier: potato and precision agriculture
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 ...
Vietnam creates ‘Da Lat’ potato brand to prevent cheap imports to be sold as local
Vietnam's Lam Dong Province has approved a programme to build a Da Lat potato brand to prevent farmers from selling ...
UPEI Precision Agriculture Project focused on Potato Inputs gets boost
A five year research project to develop precision agriculture ('smart') technologies for the use of inputs in potato farming at ...
Searching for the occasional market for excess potatoes
Organisations representing potato farmers in Belgium and France, ABS (Algemeen Boerensyndicaat, Flanders), FWA (Walloon Federation of Agriculture) and UNPT (National ...
McCain Foods Limited makes strategic investment in Vertical Farming
McCain Foods Limited has completed a strategic investment in TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, a highly innovative Canadian agricultural technology company.TruLeaf has ...
