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North Carolina’s local market is hungry for the state’s summer potato crop, grower-shippers say. “Everybody’s excited about local in North Carolina,” says Lee Anne Oxford, marketing director for Raleigh, N.C.-based L&M.
Although Oakville Produce, Australia’s biggest supplier of potatoes and onions, went into receivership last week, Woolworths says there will be no potato shortage in its 960 supermarkets.
The new potato varieties satisfy nutritional needs and could act as a preventive measure for several diseases.
KOLKATA: It’s a mixed bag for the Indian consumer this summer. While cooking oil prices have dropped 6% in the past fortnight, potato has become costlier by 20%, as production is less and traders are keeping the tuber in cold storages hoping prices
At the moment, Polish customers are turning away from domestic potatoes and choosing those of foreign origin, as reported by the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics.
This year’s Europatat congress takes place in Brussels, on June 1-2 and is organized in conjunction with Freshfel, the European Fresh Produce Association. The main theme of the event is “Adapting Business to Change and Uncertainty”.
Potato plants boost the chemical defenses in their leaves when Guatemalan tuber moth larvae feed on their tubers, report researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI).
In August 2014, a McCain Foods (GB) employee in Whittlesey, near Peterborough, nearly lost his arm after it became entangled in machinery. As a result, the company has now been fined £800,000 (1.15 million USD) for safety failings.