Supermarkets across Australia are experiencing a shortage of popular potato chip products caused by storms and flooding in south-eastern states as well as supply chain problems.
For most of the Prince Edward Island potato growers, the impacts of having the Canada-US border closed to exports of their potatoes last winter are still being felt.
It is sweet potato season at BelOrta again. "We began customer deliveries about two weeks ago, and this year’s harvest looks good. It’s been a hot, dry summer, which actually benefited the sweet potatoes," says Benny Cuypers.
With the objective to give diversification a push and encourage water conservation in agriculture, the Department of Soil and Water Conservation organised a seminar on “Enhancing the adoption of micro- irrigation for potato cultivation” here.
In Polonia, il mese di ottobre ha portato a un ulteriore aumento dei prezzi all’ingrosso delle patate.
Potatoes with as much vitamin C as a lemon could be grown and sold in England within five years using “game-changing” gene-editing technology, scientists have predicted.
Potato yields have declined year on year by approximately 10 to 15% in 2022, Teagasc has confirmed.
Spanish and British researchers discover a bacterium in the tuber that produces a broad-spectrum fungicide.
