China: Small Potatoes, Big Industry
Potatoes pull people out of poverty in Gansu
Asia 27/05/2015
EEUU: Minnesotans concerned about potato pesticides turned away from McDonald’s meeting
A group of rural Minnesotans hoping to present their concerns about McDonald’s use of potato pesticides were denied entrance to the company’s shareholder meeting Thursday, they said.
Norte Am. 27/05/2015
Ucrania: "Oekraïense aardappelsector wordt langzaam volwassen"
Oekraïne is een echt aardappelland. Jaarlijks produceert het meer dan 22 miljoen ton aardappelen, waarmee het de vierde aardappelproducent ter wereld is.
Europa 27/05/2015
Canadá: Canadian gardeners enlisted help billion-dollar potato industry
The (Prince Edward Island) Department of Agriculture and Forestry is asking gardeners to plant only tomato varieties with a proven resistance to a new strain of late blight.
Norte Am. 27/05/2015
Canadian and US producers traveled to Argentina to observe potato crops
Some Canadian and American growers and McCain Foods executives travelled south to get a first-hand look at the country’s flourishing processing industry. What did they learn?
Argentina 24/05/2015
Polonia: Irish farming opportunities abound in western Poland
There are tremendous prospects for young people from Ireland to establish attractive share farming opportunities in western Poland, according to Tim Bergin of Pomerania-based PSD Produce.
Europa 23/05/2015
Bulgaria: Potato acreage down 30%
Bulgarian potato producers are predicting another 30% reduction in the acreage in 2015; an understandable result of a collapse in their income over last year and the cost of growing this vegetable in the country.
Europa 23/05/2015
EEUU: A potato chip nobody wants
Researchers on lookout for potato psyllid, a new pest that could infect crop with zebra chip, which has wiped out entire fields in other parts of the world
Norte Am. 22/05/2015