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In Rwanda, where potato consumption exceeds 100 kg per person per year, yields remain low mainly because farmers recycle their own tubers and lack access to high-quality seed. A poster by Evariste Nsabimana (Seed Potato Fund Joint…
Average yield reached 291 c/ha as the region's harvest campaign enters the home stretch, the regional agriculture ministry said.
Harvesting was 87% complete; the Urals was the exception among regions as heat alternated with excessive rain.
One of Siberia's largest agricultural regions has closed its vegetable season, the regional agriculture minister said.
Potatoes.News welcomes Associate Professor Nomali Ngobese (North-West University, South Africa) to the Potato Expert Panel. Her answers on sprout suppression, spatial sciences for smallholders and what the industry can learn from Africa.
EUROPLANT Potatoes UK Ltd, led by newly appointed managing director James Paice, aims to deepen work with local growers and expand licensing of the breeder's varieties.
Diesel prices are 40–73% higher than a year ago in the US and major EU markets, adding to harvest, haulage and contract pressures for potato growers. Governments are responding with temporary tax cuts and relief schemes, but…
Hybrid true potato seed has reached commercial release in Kenya, promising disease-free, easily stored planting material shipped in grams instead of tonnes.
Ontario's P&K Vander Zaag Farms is 92% through harvest with strong yields, but the Canadian Federation of Agriculture warns surging diesel, steel and aluminum costs are squeezing growers' margins.
Poland's statistics office GUS has cut its national potato harvest estimate to 5.9 million tonnes, 15.4% below 2025, after satellite imagery confirmed lower yields in the main producing regions.
The potato industry's ambitions — dependable supplies, better varieties, sustainable production, expanding markets — all rest on one precondition: that people can make a viable living growing the crop. That is the premise of "Who Will Grow…
Punjab's seed potato calendar — planting in early October, haulm cutting by late December — keeps aphid-borne viruses out of India's largest certified seed program.
