Canadá: Squeezed harvest causes potato shortage in Manitoba
Manitoba potato growers had expected to produce about 22 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2018, but the actual total will be about nine percent less.
Norte Am. 25/11/2018
Holanda: Breeders Trust detective work catches seed potato company mixing in table potatoes
Earlier this month, Breeders Trust - an organisation looking after the interest of a.o. potato breeders - revealed a major fraud, concerning the switching of at least 200 tons of potatoes meant for consumption, to seed potatoes.
Europa 25/11/2018
Canada: Short harvest causes potato shortage in Manitoba
Manitoba has a potato shortage. Potato production dropped heavily because of poor conditions at harvest.
Norte Am. 23/11/2018
Noruega: A solution found for the acrylamide problem?
Acrylamide in refined food is a growing and serious concern among international health authorities.
Europa 23/11/2018
Peru: Researchers developing potatoes resistant to disease and climate change
Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) are using wild potatoes to develop climate-resilient varieties.
Latam 23/11/2018
Holanda: The future of late blight control: A research vision
In a recent interview with the Global Potato News magazine, Prof Francine Govers at the Laboratory of Phytopathology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands says she believes it is essential to approach the problem of late blight control.
Europa 23/11/2018
Alemania: Historic low potato harvest seriously impacts seed, processing sectors until 2020
After completion of the potato harvest in Germany the expected low yield of the crop due to the extreme drought this summer became a reality, the German association of fruit, vegetable and potato processing industry (BOGK) says in a press
Europa 23/11/2018
Filipinas: Deciphering potential climate change impacts on potato production
Allan Siano is a Senior Science Research Specialist at the government of the Philippines, undertaking a PhD programme in Horticultural Science at the School of Agriculture and Environment of Massey University, New Zealand.
Asia 23/11/2018