Drought, a recent hot spell and damage caused by frosts last winter have led to a significant reduction in this season’s early new potato crop in southern Spain, as Maura Maxwell reports for Eurofruit.
De hoogtijdagen voor de moestuiniers zitten er nu echt wel aan te komen. De zon en de wind zorgen ervoor dat de bodem stilaan voldoende droog wordt om hem zonder schade te kunnen bewerken.
Meer dan 20.000 kleinschalige aardappelboeren in Nakuru County in Kenia zullen profiteren van verschillende programma’s die gericht zijn op het afstemmen van klimaatslimme innovaties en technologieën.
The demand for potatoes produced in different areas of Bangladesh is increasing in different countries of the world.
Eddy Ouko, a potato farmer from Jimo location in western Kenya, understands how climate change affects global food systems.
Growers are being warned about high slug risk in potatoes where crops have been planted into cloddy seed beds and are urged to counter the threat with a good quality pellet as soon as tubers reach golf ball size.
The Netherlands’ nitrogen policy puts the production of french fry potatoes at risk, according to Andries Middag, director of the Association for the Potato Processing Industry (Vavi).
The Sicilian new potato season started a few weeks ago. Davide Prietto Batturi’s company from Syracuse is among the businesses that specialize in this product.
