The South African potato community will gather in Cape Town for its annual Seed Growers Forum and general Congress in September of this year. Some of the presenters at the event will […]
Potato farmers in five African counties can now access certified planting material after a Dutch-based horticultural firm introduced new technology to mass produce high yielding and disease resistant seed varieties in Nakuru, […]
About 35,000 hectares of Irish potatoes are grown annually in Kenya. Potato farming has high potential that remains unexploited. Potato is the second most important food crop, after maize, in Kenya, cultivated […]
By Régis Umurengezi of The New Times – Nine banks and other financial institutions in the country will, effective next planting season, start issuing various financial services to Irish potato cooperatives through […]
For almost a decade, Potatoes SA has assisted black emerging farmers in building their own potato production businesses. To date, the non-profit company has already invested in and helped more than forty upcoming potato […]
The government of Kenya has reportedly signed a US$6m deal with BASF, one of the world’s leading chemical companies, as well as IPR Consulting Establishment in Kenya – to develop a potato cooling […]
Many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs and investors are intensely interested in the preparation of new regulations on the production and marketing of planting materials for vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs), such as potato and […]
The price of potatoes has skyrocketed in the last two weeks and this is attributed to heavy rains that disrupted harvesting in the Free State province in South Africa. Chief executive officer […]
Regular fluctuations in potato prices and exploitation by brokers might be a thing of the past for potato farmers from Kinangop area in Kenya’s Nyandarua County following the construction of a private […]
Irish potatoes have prevented another major humanitarian food crisis in one of the poorest and most remote parts of Ethiopia, the Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide has said. The humble spud, introduced […]
Potato farmers in Nyandarua County in Kenya are betting on new varieties with higher yields to boost their incomes. In an initiative by the Embassy of Ireland and Nyandarua County Government dubbed […]
The HortIMPACT project and its partner Agrimech Africa Ltd. organised its final demonstration day to showcase different agricultural machines and promote their use amongst horticultural farmers. More than 30% of potatoes in […]
According to the Kenyan news publication Daily Nation, the government in that country has rolled out a project that will see the Prisons Department and the National Youth Service (NYS) take active […]
A potato and vegetable processing plant will be built soon in Ol Kalou town. The factory, a collaboration of the Department of Correctional Services and Nyandarua county government, will mitigate post-harvest losses […]
According to a report by the Lusaka Times, a German company that will locally produce French fries for both the Zambian and regional export markets is expected to commence operations this year. […]
Are potatoes South Africa’s favourite veg? It certainly seems like it, based on how inflation-proof our demand for this versatile vegetable is. Despite increases in food prices that has seen many South […]
Egypt’s Central Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture issued a report last Wednesday revealing that Egypt’s exports of agricultural products, especially potatoes and citrus, rose to 1 million and 111,000 tons, an […]
