Crossroads at Big Creek is hosting a program where the University of Wisconsin and the USDA Potato Research Project grow and study a promising potato variety from Colombia in South America.
During the 2017/18 season, an increase in planted area to 122.8 Kha was recorded. This was the second consecutive year of area increase, following the record low of 112.0 Kha planted in 2015/16.
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, reportedly presented the head of Russia, Vladimir Putin, with four bags of potatoes to honor the New year.
The fall in planted area the past season in Britain has been paired with a long-term rationalisation in the number of registered growers, AHDB Potatoes says in its annual Market Intelligence report for 2018/19.
We all know climate change is a problem — and if you’re still denying it, it’s time to get your head out of the sand. In most Canadian communities, we are exempt from feeling the real effects on a day-to-day basis.
Sacks of potatoes line both sides of the road at Alwalpur village in Jandu Singha. Distressed by a glut for the third consecutive season, farmers are unable to find buyers for the produce.
Driven by popular belief that it is a practice that works, farmers in Uttar Pradesh state in India are reportedly spraying their crops with liquor – mainly potatoes and sugarcane.
Potato crops do not perform well in high temperatures, according to a new research paper, and that could be a problem as the weather warms with climate change.
