Supermarkets ‘slow’ to embrace PCN-resistant potatoes

Despite talking a good game on sustainability and encouraging growers to reduce the use of pesticides, UK supermarkets have so far been slow to embrace PCN-resistant varieties of potato.

This was the assessment of a major potato breeder who told FPJ that seed houses have generally been disappointed with the limited traction for resistant varieties in Britain.

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