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Agrico director Jan van Hoogen has been elected chairman at the first official meeting of the new seed potato commission of Europatat, association of European potato traders. He will fulfill the post for a period of 2 years.
Agrico director...
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The microwave sometimes offers an easy solution for when you are in a hurry. Food is cooked faster than normal.A quiche is ready much faster in the microwave. If you also use pre-peeled potatoes from the shop’s fridge, you’ll be ready even f...
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The Agrobacterium tumefaciens (At) bacterium can induce its host to produce galls in which the bacterium itself thrives. When the plant tissue is heated somewhat the bacterium dies but the plant continues to rapidly multiply cells in the gall. Appar...
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After having been a family business for many years, D.T. Dijkstra BV was taken over by Agrimach investment company at the end of last year. Robert Ponte and Maartje Dijkstra are the current owners. They now form the Dijkstra management team, w...
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Down to Earth! That certainly is an accurate portrayal of trading company Albert Elligsen from the German village of Peine. The English description pretty much orresponds with words such as pünktlich (punctual), sauber (clean) and unkompliziert (...
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Researchers Henk Jalink and Rob van der Schoor of Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR) have developed an innovative MIPS-LED camera, with which fellow researchers of the university can quickly record photosynthesis in plants. Vivianne Vle...
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Busy, busy, busy. Chock-a-block aisles with a great many Russian visitors this year, who are still purposefully looking for suppliers of food such as consumption potatoes. So Fruit Logistica in Berlin is the place to be. Also for the Dutch potato trade. T...
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At the beginning of February, Agrinbo-Geerkens, the Belgian agricultural building company, organised an open day in the new potato and onion storage at the farm of Daan Dees, a crop farmer in Den Bommel. The building is particularly striking...
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In Mocow Oblast, Kolomna region, the snow was still on the fields, but the APH Group Service and Installation team assembled the first T-L irrigation system of this year. The T-L irrigation system for this customer consists of two season-towable piv...
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Miedema machine manufacturer from Winsum has recently added two sharply priced trailer models to its range. These are a two-axle vehicle, the Miedema-Stronga BL700, and a three-axle one, the Miedema-Stronga BL850.The BL700 has a capacity of 24 cubic...
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India has recently opened up breeders’ rights to various crops, among which the potato. This opening-up process gives potato breeding companies the possibilty to seriously apply for breeders’ rights in India.
The opening up of breeder...
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The Chinese radish green manure crop has long had a reputation as a host plant for problem nematodes in potatoes. Recently, however, this problem was relegated to the past as a result of the arrival of the Doublet variety, according to plant selecti...
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If we want to maintain our current export position for seed and consumption potatoes, we must continue tosupply the best quality at the best price. The first thing growers often think of when cost reduction is brought up is lower costs per hectare. ...
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Professor Ruud Huirne is director of the renownedAgricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) of the Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR). At the end of 2009, at the Potato Demonstration Day Conference, he spoke in his capacity of an...
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Runner’s World, the runner’s favourite magazine, recently published a positive article about the consumption of potatoes.The magazine even promoted the potato as the perfect food for runners. This praise lavished on the potato comes from the...
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Fusion cooking combines many different tastes and cooking techniques from various cultures. A dish of Chinese wok-fried ‘Dutch’ potatoes, topped with Thai fish sauce and coriander, and served with Italian pine nuts is not only easy, it also take...
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Last year, the machine was already being admired at several European agricultural shows and it is now ready for real work. Machinery manufacturer Miedema demonstrated its new CP 42 P planting combination in the Netherlands during the recent planting...
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The level of carbon-dioxide (CO2) in the air in the northern hemisphere was 315 parts per million in 1958 and currently it is 390 (0.039 %) and continues to rise despite global efforts to reduce it; among others with carbon rights trading between...
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European financial support will also cease for the Danish starch industry in 2013. To be able to continue to grow and process starch potatoes, the chain costs will have to drop, is their view. A visit to the AKV cooperative association in Aalborg, i...
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Organisational digitalisation is steadily rising in the world. The Dutch inspection sector, too, cannot avoid it. The NAK Inspection Service is doing rather well, according to an interview with Eric Casteleijn, Jan Eggo Hommes and Ad Toussaint. They...
