El portal de la papa en Argentina
So what do Matt Damon, Peru and China have in common? The answer is easy, it’s potatoes, writes Andre Erasmus, having recently learned that potatoes are going to be big in China. And that NASA, alongside experts in Peru, is working on growing potatoe
Potato seed samples are being sought for the 2016 seed trials by the Washington State University Extension Office of Grant and Adams counties.
NEW DELHI: The government will create a buffer stock of potato as prices are likely to increase in the coming months due to estimated fall in the output of the rabi crop, Parliament was informed today.
A new research partnership has been formed in the UK between the Two Blades Foundation (2Blades), The Sainsbury Laboratory, and J. R. Simplot Company. They aim to develop potato varieties with increased resistance to oomycete and bacterial diseases.
British Colombia Ministry of Agriculture scientist, Tracy Hueppelsheuser, is concerned that Chafer beetles could affect crops in the Fraser Valley and beyond. Presently, Ontario root crops like potatoes and ginseng are under threat.
Indian ministers are placing the blame on each other as potato prices in Odisha continue to soar. On Saturday 12 March, the State Government was criticised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress for its failure to bring down the prices.
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
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.