France: Potato storage production will reach a record high in 2025
The 2025/2026 campaign "marks a turning point for the French potato sector," the CNIPT said in a press release.
Europa 16/12/2025
Colombia: They develop a native potato variety that extends storage time and reduces losses in the field
Natural genetic crosses between Colombian and Peruvian varieties allowed for extending the sprouting time of the criolla potato, one of the most produced and consumed in the country.
Latam 14/12/2025
Canada: The potato vine crusher poised to help farmers grind weeds to a halt
In 2021, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) research scientist Dr. Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill dusted off equipment invented 10 years prior by an AAFC colleague to repurpose it for a new idea in weed science called harvest weed seed control.
Norte Am. 14/12/2025
Belgian potato stocks are estimated to be 800,000 tonnes higher than last year.
As of November 15, total potato stocks are estimated at 4.11 million tons, exceeding the average of the last three years.
Europa 14/12/2025
Bangladesh: Potato can be a lucrative export crop
Day after tomorrow, on Tuesday to be precise, Bangladesh will observe the 55th Victory Day, commemorating the final victory over the Pakistani occupation army in the nine-month bloody war of independence in 1971.
Asia 14/12/2025
Brasil: Preços da batata continuam subindo pela próxima semana.
Os preços subiram pela quarta semana consecutiva.
Latam 13/12/2025
Peru (Apurímac): More than 50 varieties of native potatoes were planted in the Paymakis Agrobiodiversity Zone
This material had been preserved in the germplasm bank of the International Potato Center (CIP).
Latam 13/12/2025
Peru (Ayacucho): Severe hailstorm causes serious damage to potato crops and other production
“We have lost almost everything. The farmland is white as if it had snowed. Now we don’t know how to recover what little we had.”
Latam 13/12/2025