Opinion

October 16, 2019 | Articles

Invest in marketing

What is a potato? Is it the crop that fed the world in times of hunger? Is it the tuber that can suit any climate? Is it the crop that can yield more nutrients per hectare than any other? Is it the basis of a global industry that reaches nearly every country on Earth?

October 16, 2019 | Articles

A lot of change in short period of time

The decision has been made. After years of uncertainty, the European Commission has decided to ban CIPC, a product that has been used for decades for the storage of ware and starch potatoes.

June 12, 2019 | Articles

Establishing continuity

With the opening of a new quality centre, cooperative Agrico wants to get a better picture of the quality and vitality of its seed potatoes.

June 12, 2019 | Articles

Improving tropical potato production..

Potato crops are still performing relatively poor in hot climates. The majority of the global potato production is therefore found in temperate climates, in tropical highlands or in cooler sub-tropical seasons. So large areas in the world are not yet suitable for potato production because of these high temperatures. These regions are also the places…

February 27, 2019 | Articles

Give storage the attention it deserves!

In agricultural research and development, we are now working hard on optimising potato cultivation by means of location-specific processing, planting and fertiliser application and crop protection, based on data collected by, for example, drones.

February 27, 2019 | Articles

Protecting world heritage

Basically, there is enough food in the world but, unfortunately, it isn’t distributed well, which means there’s also a lot of famine.