Potatoes

World Food Day was commemorated with a new sense of urgency in South Africa, spurred by research commissioned by the Shoprite retail group that suggests that 49% of South Africans will go hungry at night in two years' time. read more

Due to the effects of climate change, resulting in an extended growing season, growing sweet potatoes in Estonia might become a possibility. University of Life Sciences researcher Eve Runno-Paurson: "Only 50-60 years ago, we could not have talked about growing sweet potatoes in Estonia. As a
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The storage of this year's onion harvest is coming to an end and the main potato harvest has also been completed in the Freiburg area. "We were very satisfied with the early potato harvest this year. With the storage potatoes, however, we had massive problems with wastage and rot, which is why
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The requirement to inspect all potatoes arriving in the Canary Islands from the United Kingdom, after larvae from red Colorado beetles were detected a couple of months ago, is causing problems at the ports of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the UK, farmers are required
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Potato prices soar by 26% with the collapse in harvests and the farewell of one in four potatoes. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis of Istat data on inflation in September, which also registers a marked slowdown in the retail prices of vegetables
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Egypt became the largest supplier of sweet potatoes to Scandinavia, one of the most premium consumer markets in the world, for the first time in history in the MY 2022/23 (July-June), according to EastFruit. Egyptian exporters were able to provide about a third of all sweet potato imports to
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Fried, roasted or boiled, potatoes are a staple of the Italian diet. These tubers, historically known as 'poor food', have in fact been able to win a place on the Italian table not only for their taste and cheapness, but also for other factors
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At Brickyard Farm near Slingsby, North Yorkshire, Andrew Wilson has just started on his 60 ha of potatoes for McCain. Lifting conditions are okay so far, he says: “We had 10mm of rain on Monday (2 October). It’s a bit damp but we’re travelling okay at the moment; if we have a week of rain
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Belarusian growers workers have harvested 680,600 tons of potatoes; the yields average 352.2 centners per hectare, says the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. read more

Bako Sweet is gearing up for the Global Produce and Floral Show in Anaheim, California. The brand’s harvest season has been off to a promising start, despite the cold and wet conditions that followed the winter months. The standout feature of this year's harvest is the range of sizes to meet
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The 15th edition of Cool Logistic Global is taking place this week in the picturesque Italian city of Genoa. The Ports of Genoa are four ports under a single port authority – Vado Ligure, Savona, Pra’ and Genoa. Together, they form a major regional import and export hub read more

Morocco, as one of the leading global suppliers of fruits and vegetables, is increasing its exports of fruit and vegetable products, but this is not relevant for all the items. In today’s article, EastFruit draws attention to the fact that the Moroccan fresh potato exports have shown a
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An agricultural machine for special tasks, the AVR Spirit 9200 two-row harvester. We saw the machine's capabilities and what it offers farmers with our own eyes during the 1st National Potato Fair in Gronowice, when it went into the field despite difficult conditions.
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Since 2017, regional sweet potatoes have been growing and thriving on the Lower Rhine potato farm Pottbäcker. "In terms of botany and production as well as preparation and post-harvest handling, the crop is incomparable to the table potato," says Andreas Pottbäcker, who grows the root
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The harvest of North Carolina’s sweet potatoes has begun, growing conditions have been good with the right amount of rain at the right time. read more

The UK harvests 5.31 million tonnes of potatoes annually, worth £703m at farm gate, so ensuring crops are free of metal contaminants is essential to any thriving grower. read more

The Bologna Potato Exchange has raised the price of potatoes delivered to the storage account. In view of the commercial situation, and in anticipation of the next potato campaign, the Joint Commission has raised the value of tubers delivered to 0.52 €/Kg. Climate change
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