El portal de la papa en Argentina
The first container of Lamb Weston’s locally produced potatoes will leave the port of Mar del Plata for Brazil tomorrow.
The collapse threatens the Cartagena countryside: sales no longer cover production costs.
Omar Carrasco, head of the Argentine Fruit and Vegetable Union, warned about the difficult situation facing producers due to the disparity between production costs and retail prices.
Five days after the rice strike, the Ministry of Agriculture established the National Potato Technical Committee to coordinate production.
Part of the ’local’ tubers from the summer harvest are still stored and have no commercial outlet, but that, despite the farmers’ request to delay imports, does not prevent many shelves from displaying the product from abroad.
Purple Tip is a disease that causes alterations such as: decreased photosynthetic capacity, impaired nutrient and reserve transport, and malformation and abortion of flowers and fruits.
It spreads rapidly, transmits pathogens, and causes massive crop losses: the reed glasswing. Will this have consequences for food prices and consumers?
Researchers have developed a genome-based metabolic model for potatoes that can improve the breeding of new stress-tolerant varieties.