El portal de la papa en Argentina
Fair potato prices and record production are pleasing growers in Bogra this season. Favourable weather conditions during plantation contributed to the record yield and farmers are already placing the crop in cold storages.
Straty wielkości i jakości plonu handlowego powodowane przez ospowatość bulw mogą sięgać nawet 50 proc. Czy istnieje zależność pomiędzy odmianą a występowaniem tej choroby?
The situation is not easy at the moment in the potato market. "At the start, I believed things looked bright, but we have come to conclude that our expectations were too high," explains Henk van den Berg, of the potato wholesaler Aardappelgroothandel
A wireworm trap invented at P.E.I ’could be a major breakthrough’. It was presented to farmers on Monday 14 March at an information session and although they don’t think it will be the complete answer to their wireworm problems.
Potato prices in the UK doubled last year due to low levels of planting; roughly 110,000 hectares were planted in 2015, the weakest for at least a decade.
A P.E.I potato growing and packing company, W.P.Griffin Inc., which has been growing the Rooster potato in trials for a few seasons, is now ready to launch it to the public on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day.
Since the 1970s, Washington State University has been conducting annual seed lot trials to test for seed-born potato viruses or injuries to crops from herbicides or pests like aphids and psyllid. The university’s Extension Office of Grant and Adams
Vanwege het kleinere aardappelareaal zijn de aardappelprijzen in het Verenigd Koninkrijk vorig jaar verdubbeld. Het areaal bedroeg in 2015 zo’n 110.000 hectare en dit jaar zal dat niet veel anders zijn.