Colombia: PepsiCo opens Latin America’s most advanced and largest potato storage facility.
It had an investment of $80 billion to store up to 20 thousand tons of potatoes for up to 6 months, it is the most modern in the region
Latam 02/04/2025
Spain: Aragon boosts recovery of potato production
Various initiatives aim to relaunch a product that once had 5,000 hectares and a harvest of 105,000 tons in this autonomous community.
Europa 02/04/2025
Europe: Uncertainty for the Northwest European potato campaign
Rising seed prices and high production costs are worrying European potato producers, who are seeing a decline in profitability per hectare.
Europa 02/04/2025
Netherlands: First transplanted skin potato variety receives plant breeder’s rights
The Board for Plant Varieties in the Netherlands has granted plant breeders’ rights to a groundbreaking new potato variety – the first of its kind to feature a skin transplant.
Europa 02/04/2025
French potato trade optimistic
The fresh market for potatoes has so far shown "a predominantly positive development", the French interprofessional potato committee CNIPT reports in a press release.
Europa 02/04/2025
India: Potato cultivation using rooting method promoted
The state of Tripura has achieved record growth in potato production thanks to the adoption of rooted top cutting (ARC) technology.
Asia 01/04/2025
Spain: Extra-early and early potato plantings increase by almost 4% to over 17,700 hectares.
The planting of "extra-early" and "early" potatoes in Spain will increase by almost 4% in 2025, exceeding 17,700 hectares, according to the latest data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Europa 31/03/2025
South Korea: Imported GMO potatoes, agricultural opportunity or environmental risk?
South Korea’s Jeollanam-do province is raising urgent concerns about the approval of genetically modified organism (GMO) potatoes imported from the U.S.
Asia 31/03/2025