Potatoes

The association Princesa Amandine Ibérica has been responsible for marketing the Princesa Amandine potato in Spain and Portugal for the last four years. In the last 2022/2023 season, the volume of potatoes marketed has exceeded 7,000 tonnes, which represents a 27% increase over the previous year.
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New requirements will allow Scottish seed potatoes back into the Northern Irish market from 30 September. Following the Windsor Framework, Minister of State at Defra Lord Benyon said that previously banned seed potatoes will be able to move from GB to NI as they do in the rest of the UK. read more

The Canary Islands are witnessing a severe shortage of potatoes. Even worse, the supply from Israel and Egypt, which has temporarily replaced the supply from England, is on its last legs. British potatoes are still unable to enter the Canary Islands, leaving the closest local source as the
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The Government of Bangladesh has fixed the prices of of potatoes, onions and other basic items such as sugar and eggs. read more

While niche crops such as tropical fruits, garlic or sweet potatoes have gained a lot of importance in recent years, table grapes from German production are still a rarity. In the greenhouses of the Kremers farm in Heinsberg, directly on the German-Dutch border, dark, red as well as light grapes
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The first half of the year is stingy with satisfaction for the Italian trade balance, which is increasingly in the red in volume, where we lose another 20 percentage points from one year to the next, while in value the balance is still positive (+ 86 million) but has shrunk by almost 30% compared to 2022. read more

The PCN forum has been set up recently to tackle the potato cyst nematode, that causes major problems for potato growers and affects almost half of the land used for growing ware potatoes across Great Britain. read more

With more than 90 thousand tonnes of marketed products including fresh, frozen and seed potatoes Pizzoli S.p.A. is the reference player in the potato production and marketing sector in Italy and one of the main players abroad. In its first report, the company photographs the
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In late 2022, factories in China's well-known potato cultivation region stood ready to be equipped with a Grisnich receiving, cleaning, and sorting line. This project's delivery scope comprises as many as 37 sea containers shipped from the Netherlands to China. The plant will eventually process
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Waitrose is set to lower prices on 250 popular autumn lines this week, including a number of fruit and veg products. read more

Riccardo Martini, managing director of Dcs Tramaco, describes to IFN a very lively domestic import phase due to the weather conditions and the difficulties in domestic supply due to the flooding in Romagna last May. read more

"There is no shortage of sweet potatoes this year," announces Mohamed Maatouk, CEO of the Egyptian Emirati food industries. "This season's volumes exceed last year's, to keep up with the growing demand for this produce." read more

Good Life Organic, a subsidiary of Veg-Fresh Farms, announces the launch of its compostable bio-degradable packaging for organic potatoes. This sustainable packaging is certified biologically degradable by the Rise Research Institutes of Sweden. read more

For the first five months of this year, Uzbekistan imported a record volume of marketable potatoes, with about 75% of this volume imported in March-May this year, analysts of EastFruit note. read more

Earlier this week, the Belgian and French organic potato sectors signed the new 'Covenant on robust organic potatoes 2023 - 2026'. That happened at the international Potato Europe trade show in Belgium in the presence of that country's federal agriculture minister, David Clarinval. It is the
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The vegetable harvest is ongoing in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. In some districts, 70% of the vegetable crop has already been collected. This year, farmers have planted more than 10% additional land compared to 2022, totaling over 110,000 hectares. read more

UK fresh produce foodservice wholesaler Fresh Direct has partnered with British start-up Zess to launch Zess Explore, a range of plant-based deli-fillers for the hospitality trade. read more

"It seems the sky's the limit. There are no issues on the demand side," is how Christophe Vermeulen interprets the current processed potatoes market. He is the CEO of Belgapom, the Belgian potato trade and processing industry's trade association. "Between 1990 and 2020, processing in Belgium
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"Efficiency is a word that comes up repeatedly regarding potato sorting," begins Kees Kelders, responsible for sales at the Austrian company Insort, which focuses on developing customized grading technology for the food processing sector. Jokingly, he cites making two kilograms of French fries
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Twenty U.S. fresh produce and dried fruits producer organizations are exhibiting this year as part of the USA Pavilion organized by the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office in Hong Kong and Macau at Asia Fruit Logistica from September 6 – 8, 2023. read more