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February 20, 2024 | Articles

Innovative Potato Presentation at Jumbo’s

Two years ago, HZPC started an initiative to change old sales traditions into a more contemporary presentation of potatoes in the supermarkets. It would mainly help young consumers to make the right choice. For this purpose, the company has developed a potato cooler with bright-coloured doors and clear texts. This season, Jumbo installed a first…

February 20, 2024 | Articles

Seed potato grower says goodbye to inspection room

After 25 long winters of manual work in the inspection room, Johannes Sijtsma has decided to outsource his seed inspection work to an electronic grading and inspection machine from now on. ‘To get on with your business, you shouldn‘t go for the old systems, but move forward’, Sijtsma explains his 450,000 euro investment in a…

February 20, 2024 | Articles

Participants choose PBSE course for more knowledge and personal contact

The Potato Business School Emmeloord (PBSE) recently organised another international potato course. Switzerland, Sudan, Cyprus, Canada, Ukraine, America, from all corners of the world participants came to the enterprising village in the polder to increase their knowledge about the cultivation, mechanisation and storage of this important crop. However, the lectures weren’t the only reason for…

February 19, 2024 | Articles

Production increase

In 2050, we will need twice as much food to feed all the people on earth than we need today, we are told by scientists such as Professor Anton Haverkort. As the amount of agricultural land won’t increase, the production per hectare will have to expand considerably to be able to feed us all. Because…

February 19, 2024 | Articles

Agrico wants to be the largest in the world

‘We want to become market leader in the worldwide seed potato trade.’ We’re talking with Jan van Hoogern (51), general manager of the Agrico cooperative, which was founded 40 years ago. He aims high for ‘his’ celebrating cooperative. Perfectly relaxed, in his office, he explains why he wants to be the largest seed potato trading…

February 19, 2024 | Articles

Variety presentation 2012: in search of innovations

What is innovation? Van Dale’s Dutch Dictionary is brief. Innovation is simply a synonym to introducing a novelty. The usual run of things for the Dutch potato breeders, you would say. Certainly, if you consider the full trays of new varieties and numbers that were being admired at the variety presentations in Emmeloord at the…

February 19, 2024 | Articles

Qualituber supplies transparently-grown, basic seed to order

Potato seed selector Frank de Schutter from Vierhuizen in the province of Groningen and seed potato merchant Agroplant in Medemblik jointly set up the Qualituber company last year. Parties interested in top-quality seed at home and abroad can order transparently-grown disease-free, high-quality basic seed of various varieties from Qualituber. ‘We’re a service company that brings…

January 31, 2024 | Articles

Sharing knowledge

Many visitors to Fruit Logistica in Berlin showed considerable interest in the special new potato variety for the young consumer with the robust name Colomba.

January 31, 2024 | Articles

Volatile potato market requires deliberate choices

Volatile potato market requires deliberate choices ‘In an increasingly volatile potato market – one with constantly-changing prices – it’s important for the entrepreneur to make properly-informed management choices to cover any possible risks’, says Professor Ruud Huirne, Food & Agri director of Rabobank Nederland in a personal interview with Potato World Magazine. He bases this…

January 31, 2024 | Articles

Nematodes change UK market

For many years, British consumers have been eating potatoes from the old, free Maris Piper and King Edward varieties. They are accustomed to their shape, skin and special taste. They would prefer to keep it this way, but rapidly-increasing nematode problems in cultivation will make changes necessary in due course.

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