Veel cafetariahouders ondervinden het nu al aan den lijve: producenten en grossiers verhogen de inkoopprijzen van friet. In sommige landen liggen de prijzen van frietaardappelen al op het niveau van het droogtejaar 1976.
IT goes without saying that the humble potato is a staple of dozens of global cuisines. Almost 92 million metric tons of potatoes are produced on an annual basis.
Southern and eastern Idaho farmers who celebrated a heavy winter snowpack followed by a stormy spring as a reprieve from drought are now finding many of their fields have been hit with too much of a good thing.
Washington potato farmers can’t keep pace with worldwide cravings for french fries, hash browns, tots, potato chips and other processed potato products. And not being able to supply the spuds has meant other countries have gobbled up the market share
Potato planting might only have finished in the last week of May, but our Northern Arable Insights grower James Pick is still reasonably optimistic for the crop this season.
Pulwama, A progressive farmer from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has adopted true potato seed (TPS) technology for cultivation of potato crops.
According to EastFruit analysts, in 2023, a sharp increase in potato production is expected in Turkey, which is among the top 15 world’s largest exporters of these tubers.
No facility of cold storage at the government level in the district is forcing potato growers to sell their produce immediately after harvesting it, as they cannot afford private cold store facility to preserve their produce.
