Poland

November 24, 2021 | Articles

Polish grower achieves good results with drip irrigation

Due to persistent drought and heat in the growing season, cultivating potatoes in Poland has been a major challenge in recent years. As a result of the dry summers in 2018 and 2019, growers who could not irrigate achieved less than a quarter of the normal yield. In order to be able to deal with…

November 24, 2021 | News

PotatoWorld video impression: Drip irrigation in Poland

When visiting Poland, where cultivating potatoes has been a major challenge in recent years, PotatoWorld magazine made a video impression about drip irrigation.

May 13, 2021 | News

European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) conference postponed to 2022

The 21st Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) has been postponed to July 4-8, 2022.

March 11, 2020 | Articles

Poland on the road to EU-6 membership

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture in Poland has passed legislation to further professionalise Polish potato cultivation. This is intended, among other things, to eradicate the ring rot quarantine disease. The Polish Ministry also wants to improve tracking & tracing and potato promotion at home and abroad. To see what this means for the sector,…

March 11, 2020 | Articles

Potato programme without ring rot should give Polish sector new impetus

Sitting at a table piled high with files in his office at the Ministry in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Agriculture and Development of the rural environment, Jan Krzysztof Ardanowsky talks enthusiastically about his ambitious plans to give the potato sector in his country a new impetus. ‘In the potato programme, which will officially start…

June 12, 2019 | Articles

Varied programme for Potato Poland 2019

This year, Potato Poland will take place in Siemiatki from 23 to 25 August. The main organiser of the event, the Polish Institute of Plant Breeding and Acclimatisation (IHAR), is collaborating here with the company CN Nidzica, one of the largest seed potato producers in Poland. The aim of the organisers is to improve the…