India: Potato can help avert food crisis
At a time when almost every essential people need for survival is atrociously costly, one common tuber crop, potato, has not followed the galloping price escalation.
Asia 08/11/2022
Australia: Potato supply in Tasmania impacted by wet harvesting conditions, growers worried about planting season
Supplies of fresh potatoes in Tasmania’s supermarkets are low, with a major grower forced to temporarily halt harvesting as weather conditions make it too wet to get tractors onto paddocks, as Fiona Breen, Laurissa Smith, and Tony Briscoe reports for
Oceania 08/11/2022
Información Técnica: Protect Your Potato Crops From Plant-Parasitic Nematodes
Plant-parasitic nematodes, microscopic roundworms, live either inside roots and other plant tissues (endoparasites) or in the soil (ectoparasites). Their life cycle includes an egg, several juvenile stages, and an adult stage.
Europa 08/11/2022
Australia: Australia’s Woolworths grocer says heavy rain and floods are hurting potato crops
Australian grocer Woolworths Group said heavy rain may keep squeezing supply of farm-based staples, including potato chips, as soaring shelf prices contributed to a decline in first-quarter food sales,,,
Oceania 08/11/2022
Italia: Emergenza ferretto su patate, in emilia romagna si chiede lo stato di calamità
“Il 2022 è stato un anno terribile per chi produce patate in Emilia-Romagna: i danni arrecati dagli elateridi hanno compromesso circa il 35% della produzione con relativo drammatico calo di PLV.
Europa 08/11/2022
EEUU: New University of Idaho Extension bulletin focuses on bacterial ring rot
University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial ring rot (BRR) and protect their operations from this devastating potato crop disease.
Norte Am. 08/11/2022
Sudafrica: South Africa: Consultancy calls for removal of import duties on French fries
International trade consultant XA Global Trade Advisors has called on the South African government to conduct an urgent review of the impact of import duties on the increasing cost of food and to remove newly imposed duties on imported French fries.
Africa 08/11/2022
Etiopia: Ethiopia approves genetically engineered potatoes trials
Ethiopia has given the green light to carry out observation field trials for genetically modified potatoes that are said to be resistant to blight, a move seen as a further sign of the country’s growing embrace of the controversial genetic modificati
Africa 08/11/2022