Western Australia’s peak potato grower body has launched a new website in an attempt to fight criticism of the state’s heavily regulated potato industry.
El costo para trasladar un producto en camión dentro del país muestra una abrumadora diferencia frente a lo que vale un flete marítimo que recorre 19.000 kilómetros. El efecto "desacople" en los combustibles explica parte del problema. ¿Qué país "arr
Este campo aporta a la región tubérculos de alta pureza, libres de enfermedades. Cuenta con un laboratorio, área de desinfección de sustrato, siete casas de cultivo, dos hectáreas y media para la siembra a cielo abierto.
Over the last year and a half, through funding from the MPB and research development from UMaine, three new varieties of potatoes have been developed and released into the market.
Potato growers should reduce their potato planting areas to some degree in 2015, given the poor prices that have been available over the past two seasons, according to Teagasc’s Dr Denis Griffin.
Idaho potato growers have inked a deal with processors accepting a slight decrease in payment but requiring processors to contract for at least 90 percent of 2014 acreages with individual farms.
Negotiations are apparently ongoing in the federal potato price-fixing case that wholesalers, retailers and consumers filed six years ago. The judge on the case has extended the deadline for a settlement notice to April 10.
After several years of negotiations, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has agreed to allow US chipping potatoes to be transported overland from an international port to an approved processing facility in Kagoshima.
