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After the winter, we often need to boost our resistance.
A plate brimming with vitamin C is something we can certainly
do with. Potatoes and chervil are both rich in vitamins,
while garlic builds up our resistance.
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The most important part in the tare of chip potatoes of the 2007 Harvest was ‘green’. A repetition can be prevented. For soil cultivation specialist Jos den Boer of machinery manufacturer AVR from the Belgian village of ...
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The total area under potato in East African Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda doubled from about 160,000 ha in 1986 to well above 300,000 ha in 2006. The potato keeps up with the speed of population increase over this twenty year period. This,...
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The Dutch four-year project ‘Bacteria-free potato seed cultivation – a challenge’ ended last autumn. A great deal about Erwinia was researched, but much more still remained unexplained. The members of the project h...
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Despite the credit crunch problems and the current bad market situation, the speakers at the Potato Demonstration Day Conference expected sufficient future perspectives for the potato sector. Only if you are focused on the future, p...
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In the past few years, the turnover, workforce and the activities of Tolsma have increased to such an extent that the company has had to expand and renovate its premises. The company, which is active in the development and production of storag...
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It will be possible for the first time this year to have seed tested at the NAK – with the exception of virus infections – for all three types of Erwinia. This will be carried out with the aid of PCR technology, which makes it poss...
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Knowledge is power is a well-known and wise saying. But this saying is not taken to heart by everyone. If you look at the current consumption potato market, everyone can see that the structural over-production is causing prices to fall. This i...
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Last issue we wrote about the Xisen potato company in China. In an exclusive interview mister Xisen revealed his ambitious plans. This year he is already growing 7,000 hectares of potatoes.
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New Zealand restaurants often have a ‘peas, pie, spud’ dish on their menus. This is a savoury pie – often with lamb, of course – with mashed peas and mashed potatoes. With fresh mint, it is a delicious, fresh, alm...
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Potato production is about harvesting the sun. It is about capturing solar energy with green leaves where photosynthesis takes place. Solar energy there is used to fuse water and carbondioxide into sugars that alone may make starch and when co...
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On 9 July, seed potato merchant Meijer BV opened its renewed breeding station at Rilland. In doing so, the company took a drastic step forwards in the development of varieties. The brand-new laboratory, fully equipped with mode...
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In Maori, the language of the original inhabitants, New Zealand is called Aotearoa: the Land of the Long White Cloud. In this country, indeed with many Long White Clouds, we also find potatoes. Not an awful lot, mind you, only ...
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PotatoEurope 2009 in Emmeloord, with 11,000 visitors has become a success. What really surprised both the organisation and the exhibitors, was the enormous number of foreign visitors: a third of the total came from no less than fifty dif...
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A soil dry as dust and potatoes susceptible to bruising because of a hot summer period without a drop of rain have resulted in many visitors to the PotatoEurope 2009 Congress now being faced with a big problem. The congress’ conclusion i...
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The especially-tasty Pommonde potatoes have been available at more than 250 Albert Heijn supermarkets for some time. Onemore point-of-sale has been added to that number: the Albert Heijn web shop www.ah.nl
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Potato World 2009 • number 4 JOPPE Pregerm™ system* quick start* 20 years experience* early harvest www.chitting.com. During the Agritechnica Miedema introduced a newbox filler, the MB 33. This boxfiller is ...
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We already described the technique and first test experiences with the site-specific second growth potato sprayer developed in Wageningen last year in our magazine. The ‘second growth of potatoes in beetroot land test period’ has n...
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At the end of 2004,
the Dutch Potato Organisation (NAO) submitted a complaint to the
European Commission against France for alleged violation of Community
law. The fact is that France imposes an extra levy on certified seed
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The new potato season started a few weeks ago, the holidays are over, the consumer is back at work, and the farmer is now extremely busy harvesting his crop. This is a long sentence that has a special underlying message. When talking about the...
