Officials with the Idaho Potato Commission are pleased by a lofty new role for their commodity – promoting world peace.Prior to meetings about unrest in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a gift of two large Idaho bakers. “We were obviously very thrilled to see this picture of Secretary Kerry using two very[Read More…]

The Jersey Royal Company, which produces 25,000 tonnes annually and is 50 per cent owned by Scottish-based and family owned Albert Bartlett, one of the biggest potato suppliers in the UK, has apparently had a £12million bid approach from AIM-listed potato grower and distributor Produce Investments, which closed 5p better at 215p, valuing the business at around £42million. Dealers heard[Read More…]

Met de introductie van Oerfrites op de komende Horecava gaat Aviko de strijd aan met de zelf voor- en afgebakken frites. De fabrikant uit Steenderen is er naar eigen zeggen in geslaagd een vers voorgebakken frites te ontwikkelen die qua uiterlijk, smaak en beleving niet onder doet voor zelf voorgebakken verse. De belangstelling voor verse frites neemt toe onder cafetariahouders.[Read More…]

Potato growers in south east South Australia will pay double their normal freight costs to move produce interstate for processing. McCain closed its potato factory at Penola at the end of last year, meaning potatoes now need to be transported more than 300 kilometres to a Victorian plant at Ballarat. SA farmers forecast they will get paid an average of[Read More…]

Les deux dernières saisons de récolte ont connu une production record avoisinant les 5 millions de tonnes. Pas moins de 320 000 tonnes de pommes de terre de consommation ont été stockées et redistribuées sur le marché, durant l’année écoulée, par les services de l’Office national interprofessionnel des légumes et viandes (Onilev). Les deux dernières saisons de récolte ont connu,[Read More…]

Potatoes account for 25 per cent of Peru’s agricultural gross domestic product, and are produced by large commercial operations on irrigated land north of the capital Lima and by traditional subsistence farmers in the Andes, where the tuber originated thousands of years ago. More than 4500 varieties of potatoes exist worldwide, with 2500 of these native to Peru. Far more[Read More…]