Seed potatoes

September 23, 2020 | Articles

‘In ten to fifteen years’ time, the whole variety package will have been turned upside down’

‘In breeding work, the standards are set higher and higher and the development of varieties is getting faster and faster. This means that in ten to fifteen years’ time, the whole variety package will have been turned upside down. As a result, a variety such as Spunta will also be minimised over this period’, says…

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

Don’t forget to look beyond your own world!

Looking back on my two years in the seed potato sector, with considerable experience in related sectors such as crop protection and fertilisers, I’ve noticed that the potato sector is rather self-contained and inward looking. You can view this in different ways.

June 12, 2019 | Articles

South Korean micro tubers are successful in China

During a field visit in the 2018 harvest period at the Chinese company Beidahuang in the province of Heilongjiang, Epi Postma, agent for ZAP-Semagri in China, was surprised at the very good results with micro tubers called ‘eggtubers’ from the South Korean company E Green Global.

June 12, 2019 | Articles

Agrico invests in quality evaluation

‘To deliver the right lot of seed potatoes to the right customer.’ That, according to Agrico’s managing director Jan van Hoogen, was one of the main objectives for investing 2.3 million euros in a brand new quality centre. ‘Every year, we incur costs of, on average, between 1 and 2 million euros for resolving complaints…

June 12, 2019 | Articles

Potato from seed opens new markets

The hybrid potato has often been announced as a revolution in potato cultivation. The technology speeds up breeding and a packet of seed travels around the world much more easily than tubers. What will this mean for the position of the Dutch seed potato grower? At the request of the members of the Seed Potato…