June 17, 2024 | Articles

Looking ahead

At Mount Nebo in Jordan, thousands of years ago, Moses was allowed to look ahead to The Promised Land. Today, monks from the Franciscan order are car­ing for this special place. From this spot, I, too, was allowed to look out over this area, but I was focused on the cultivation and marketing of potatoes…

June 17, 2024 | Articles

Growers in the Middle East are looking ahead

The Arab Spring affects all countries in the Middle East. Although some countries are affected more than others, the consequenc­es are visible everywhere. Including in the Lebanon and in Jordan to which we recently trave led with the five seed potato growers from the Advisory Board of trading company Stet Holland, Unrest and uncertainty are…

May 29, 2024 | News

30-th of May is International day of Potato

Today is an important day for the potato sector worldwide. On May 30 of this year, the first International Day of Potato will take place. In 2018, the World Potato Congress took the initiative for an International Day of Potato. Together with Peru and a number of other countries, this initiative for an annual potato…

May 21, 2024 | News

Potato planting PotatoEurope 2024 France completed under good conditions

In between the many rain showers, the organisation of PotatoEurope 2024, the international potato event that will take place on 11 and 12 September in the northern French town of Villers-Saint-Christophe, has completed the planting work.

April 29, 2024 | Articles

Quality is always necessary

In the free potato market, the price for potatoes was much lower in Europe than last year. In view of the export of French fries all over the world, such a year also offers opportunities for developing new markets.

April 29, 2024 | Articles

ESPG argues for collective acceptance of seed potato tests

Just imagine that you are a Belgian seed potato grower and you export a batch of potatoes to another EU country. Upon sampling in that other country, the possible pres­ence of ring rot is reported. It is then mid February. All doors, including those at home, on the farm, are then locked. You are visited…

April 29, 2024 | Articles

Stammen’s quality table potatoes all year round

Together with his son Christoph (25), Heinz Stammen (60) grows 170 hectares of table potatoes in the German town of Geldern in Niederrein (Germany). They start each new growing season with early potatoes under plastic. The yield of the later main harvest is put into storage until the end of May. To improve storage, the…

April 29, 2024 | Articles

Packed Agritechnicafull of innovations

Expectations were high and were satisfied. Agritechnica, the world’s largest agricultural mechanisation show, recently attracted over 415,000 visitors, around a quarter coming from all corners of the world. A pleasing factor for all those thousands of visitors was that the exhibitors had a great many innovations on show. The ‘kartoffel’ HALLE 2 was also crammed…

April 25, 2024 | Articles

Sustainability takes shape

In the competition for the best Dutch Fresh Marketer of the Year, this time the founder of the local brand Gijs was nominated.

April 25, 2024 | Articles

Sustainability will soon be better known than DuRPh

‘It is all in the game’, said the well-known Dutch poet Bredero, when things didn’t go as they should. Anton Haverkort (59), a scientist at Plant Research International (PRI) and since recently, Professor of crop and soil sciences at the University of Pretoria (SA), knows a thing or two about that. For example, the agronomists…