El portal de la papa en Argentina
The competent Russian authorities in the Russian port of Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, have seized three shipments of Egyptian potatoes weighing 439.5 tonnes due the presence of living larvae from the sweet potato butterfly.
It may come as a surprise, but China is already the world’s largest grower of potatoes with almost one third of the 330 million tons harvested worldwide per year coming from the Middle Kingdom.
For more than two weeks, Nepal residents have lived in fear that the earth beneath them would once again shake after a mighty earthquake hit west of Kathmandu last month
Potato planting season in P.E.I. has been pushed back by about two weeks due to the record-setting snowfall this winter and spring.
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Un pequeño campo de la isla holandesa de Texel, azotado por los vientos del mar de Wadden, podría aportar una respuesta al hambre en el mundo con su plantación de papas cultivadas en agua salada del mar.
Las consecuencias de las infecciones virales pueden ser variables, algunos no causan pérdidas significativas mientras que otros como el virus del amarillamiento de las venas de la papa(PYVV) pueden ocasionar pérdidas de hasta un 50 % de la producción
Produtores de Curitiba, Irati, Ponta Grossa e São Mateus do Sul (PR), de Ibiraiaras/Santa Maria (RS) e do Sul de Minas Gerais iniciam em maio a colheita de batata da safra das secas 2015.