El portal de la papa en Argentina
Canada’s potato industry joins a growing number of food sectors that finds itself in crisis, a crisis sparked by the near elimination of demand for french fries.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a once strong potato market to make an abrupt about-face, leading some Idaho growers to dump surplus spuds from storage cellars or to feed them to cattle.
Eine weitere Frostwelle hat kürzlich Polen getroffen, obwohl die Temperaturen im Vergleich zur vorangegangenen Frostperiode nicht unglaublich niedrig waren. Dennoch wird es Schäden an einer Vielzahl von Obst und Gemüse geben.
New potato harvest started in last week, in Portugal. Due to the higher temperatures recorded in February and March, compared to last years, the earliest varieties reached the commercial size in advance,” says Sérgio Margaço, Director of Advice.
The Greek potato season has slowly started, but business is steady. Thanks to a magnificent period of weather the Greeks expect larger volumes than last year, an increase of about 20 per cent.
The potato acreage in Canada and the United States could take a dramatic hit in 2020.
Sergey Banadysev, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Head of the selection program of the SSC “Doka - Gene Technologies
The potato industry has been a close reflection of the lockdown, given the entrenched role of potatoes and its particular vulnerability to the closure of restaurants and food service outlets.