Tag: potato sector

We have rarely seen such a strange potato season at all

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Ukrainian Association of Potato Producers have developed a state-funded program for the development of industrial potato growing for 2021-2025,

If crops were treated with Maleic Hydrazide (MH) pre-harvest, in line with best practice recommendations, you will now be facing a decision on whether to apply in- store sprout suppressants ...

POTATO / CEPEA: Rains in potato harvest intensifies

Ukrainian farmers are raising prices for their high-quality potatoes

I suggest to sow one hectare less of potatoes, rather than one hectare more.

Officials and experts of the Department of Agricultural Extension are expecting an all-time record production of potatoes in the Rangpur agriculture region during the current season.

Due to growth in domestic prices and problems in potato warehouses Russia may increase potato imports from Egypt

Relatively good potato prices can currently be hedged on the futures market. Around 1,000 euros more per hectare than on the cash market are definitely possible for resourceful producers.

This situation has resulted in the region of Castile-Leon having around 50% more than usual in storage at this time, and with great difficulties to find markets for it

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing by the day, plans for 2021 potato acres are still up in the air as buyers are waiting to lock-in contracts,

Farm Frites wants a stable supply of potatoes and is therefore focusing on multi-year contracts in contract negotiations this year.

Online grocery shopping will be here to stay following the pandemic, but the food supply industry will need to get creative when marketing products

A Commission composed (as from 1/1/2021 onwards) out of 10 persons, of which 5 active in the potatoes trade and 5 in the potato processing industry, quotes on a weekly ...

potato products stagnated again in many countries, causing grower prices to fall to 66 points in November, 17% lower than in September and 44% lower than a year earlier.

A correct balance between yield and cost is important for the perspective of potato cultivation. This is the conclusion of arable farm managers Mathieu Vrancken of the Boerenbond in Belgium ...

Acreage in the Maritimes was down by 7.3 per cent, with production falling even more due to yield reductions caused by a dry growing season.

export to 2020 was 786 million, today it does so in more than 7,000 million dollars and takes 11.6% of GDP and generates many jobs.

A large pile of potatoes was dumped in front of the head office of the umbrella organization Central Bureau for Food (CBL) on Friday morning.

contract is concluded and to actually see these potatoes as free potatoes.

Due to an unexpected demand from some Belgian potato processors for potatoes, the price rose to 5 euros

The outbreak of corona in March 2020 deeply affected many entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector. In this series a look back at the past year with entrepreneurs who were previously in ...

This week, key actors from Georgia’s potato sector convened virtually to discuss ideas to enhance the country’s potato sector.  Called the “Georgia Potato Forum,” the meeting focused on ways to develop value chains to improve ...

The announcement that a trade deal between the UK and the EU had been agreed just days before the end of the transition period was hailed as a great relief ...

BO Akkerbouw has submitted an application to the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality for an extension of its research program up to and including 2030. With joint knowledge ...

Dutch agricultural companies have good access to government financing. Only 2 to 7 percent of the funding demand is not met, which is much lower than in most other European countries. Minister ...

The Belgian potato sector wants to be less dependent on the supply of seed potatoes from abroad, especially from the Netherlands. The recently started branch organization for the Belgian potato ...

Although we are nearing the end of a uniquely testing year, British farmers will have more challenges to face in 2021 says Gary Ford, regional director for the National Farmers' Union (NFU). There ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report, The Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture, prepared in close partnership with the Department of Transportation.  Agricultural producers are the single largest user ...

Northern Ireland’s potato industry (potato Imports) is hoping against hope that a derogation allowing the importation of both ware and seed from Great Britain into the region, beyond December 31, ...

LTO Nederland and the Association for the Potato Processing Industry (VAVI) have reviewed the General Purchasing Conditions for Potatoes Link Industry / Cultivation and revised a number of points. The changes ...

The GB potato industry accounts for over 117.46Kha of planted area this year, and is represented by 1,611 growers in 2020. Growers have faced difficult seasons of late. Last season, ...

Due to the ban on CIPC, the storage of potatoes is more expensive than ever. With the current low prices, it has become unaffordable to keep free potatoes germ-free. This is the ...

The consequences of the coronavirus outbreak were immediately felt for the Dutch agricultural sectors. But looking back at the first six months of the corona crisis, the impact in this period ...

The situation in the potato trade is currently not looking good. "Until last week, the export has been very good and many potatoes have left for export. Now some, mainly African ...

The first contours for the 2021 potato season are beginning to emerge. The table potato market is still looking good, at least in terms of volume. The market for chips potatoes looks ...

Potato processors will contract approximately 20 percent fewer potatoes for the 2021 harvest than this year. The contract price falls by approximately 10 percent. Remo-Frit, the Belgian market leader in freshly peeled ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Potato farmers and officials in the Kurdistan Region say coronavirus movement restrictions have dried up the root vegetable’s market this year. “Our main market is in Iraq's ...

The lockdown in Italy has ensured that potato sales got off the ground. The consortium of the Patata di Bologna potato recorded an increase of 33% for that potato in question ...

Farm experts are of the view that rising prices of essential commodities coupled with wage deflation and increasing joblessness are pushing poor households to the point of distress despite the ...

'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 ...

Beattie’s Distillers has added a potato-based gin to their spirits lineup with the launch of Farm Crafted Potato Gin on Friday June 22, 2018. The Canadian spirits maker, named after ...

Potato Cooperative Agrico inaugurated its new greenhouse complex at the Agrico Research breeding station last Friday. This was followed by an Open Day on Saturday April 7 at the research ...