El portal de la papa en Argentina
Het ministerie van Landbouw van Kazachstan heeft 228 ton pootaardappelen uit Duitsland, Nederland en Frankrijk in beslag genomen, alsmede 46,4 kilogram wortelzaad uit Frankrijk dat besmet was met een gevaarlijke bacterie.
Akkerbouwer Jacko Dieleman teelt ruim 400 hectare aardappelen in het Zeeuwse Zaamslag. Het grootste deel van de aardappelen is bestemd voor de verwerking tot chips.
More than 120 farmers have participated in a field day demonstration exercise on an improved frafra Potato varieties held at Kongo in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, with the aim of reviving neglected and underutilise crops as in Frafra
The incessant rains and floods in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest potato producer, has left farmers, especially in the potato belt of Kannauj, staring at huge losses.
CIPC has been banned since last year. It was a practical and cheap solution to limit the sprouting of potatoes.
At this stage, the sales volume of warehousing potatoes in the northern first cropping area of potato is not large, and the price is mainly stable.
In absence of government support to farmers, the volume of potato cultivation would drop drastically in the region’
A new report from IndexBox shows that global potato exports shrank to 13m tons in 2020, dropping by -11.3% compared to the year before.