
EEUU: Heat takes toll on spud harvest
MOSES LAKE — While potato farmers in the Columbia Basin could call on all the water they needed during this year’s drought, the heat still posed risks and has left its mark on this year’s potato crop.
MOSES LAKE — While potato farmers in the Columbia Basin could call on all the water they needed during this year’s drought, the heat still posed risks and has left its mark on this year’s potato crop.
After a very wet summer, slow and difficult harvesting conditions in Belgium, Holland and Germany.
"Although yields per hectare are lower than in previous years, there are larger quantities of PGI potatoes from Sila as crops currently cover 600 against the 520 of 2020," reports Albino Carli, director of Consorzio Produttori Patate Associati (PPAS)
Minister of state for Agriculture and Rural Development Mustapha Baba Shehuri has declared that Nigeria will be among the world’s top three potato producing countries by 2025.
U.S. exports of frozen potato products increased by 30% for the July – September 2021 quarter compared to 2020.
En proie aux pénuries, le pays a vu le prix du kilo de patates presque tripler. Une inflation qui attise la colère des ménages et laisse entrevoir l’inefficacité du gouvernement.
In marketing year (April - March) 2020/21, Japan’s fresh potato acreage was 71,900 hectares (ha) and production was 2,204,000 metric tons (MT).
For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy.