El portal de la papa en Argentina
Harvest: The plummeting potato prices by almost seven times at the auction yard in Phuentsholing this year has come as a big blow to farmers, with some varieties even failing to meet the transportation costs.
I’ve seen a lot of potato varieties come and go during my years as a potato scientist. Many of them never made it to the big time, in spite of the fact they survived the lengthy and rigorous battery of tests that need to be passed before a new variet
Potato cyst nematodes (PCN) are a significant threat to the UK fresh and processing potato markets, with an annual estimated cost of £50 million to the potato industry.
Agriculture: Potato growers in Tashi Gatshel village of Bjachho gewog in Chukha are unhappy about this year’s poor harvest. Their stand is that the Tashi Agriculture Sales and Services (TASS) distributed poor quality seedlings this year.
The Irish and UK sugar beet and potato yield for 2015 is to be above the five-year average, according to the European Commission’s latest MARS Bulletin.
Farmers of Dinajpur and adjoining districts have started cultivating early variety potato with a hope of good profit this year.
Auf dem Weg von der Scholle bis zum Teller geht mehr als die Hälfte der Kartoffelernte verloren. Das zeigt eine neue Studie von Forscherinnen und Forschern von Agroscope und der ETH Zürich.
Am Freitag, 23.10.2015 haben die Agroscope und ETH je eine Pressemitteilungveröffentlicht der zu entnehmen ist, dass rund die Hälfte der Schweizer Kartoffelernte als Lebensmittel verschwendet werde.