VegetablesRangpur potato farmers spend Tk 825 a sack to store it, and sell it for Tk 660
Potatoes are selling at Tk 12 a kg at cold-storage gates in Rangpur; growing and storing a 55 kg sack costs about Tk 825, but it fetches Tk 660.
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VegetablesIron-rich potatoes grow through Lima's hot winter under rice-straw mulch
The International Potato Center showed biofortified, blight-resistant varieties grown on untilled soil under rice straw with sensor-led drip irrigation, practices it says cut production costs by about 20%.
HealthCIP scientist honoured for proving the iron in biofortified potatoes is absorbed
Gabriela Burgos received the World Food Prize Foundation's Top Agriculture Pioneer Award for establishing iron bioavailability in two new Peruvian potato varieties.
VegetablesHow a Cambridgeshire grower plans to keep 5,000t of drought-stressed potatoes in store
Steve Edgley is spreading his crop across five store types, using maleic hydrazide, DMN and orange oil to hold sprouting, as spot prices near £360 to £380 a tonne bring relief after two hard years.
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Potato centre launches purple top website and risk map as Peru braces for outbreak
CIP's new website explains the psyllid-spread purple top complex and maps where it could spread in South America; an AI app linked to automated insect traps is in development.
CropsEU project BIOCRAFT will use AI and biotech to breed tougher potatoes and rice
A four-year, EUR 3.81 million EU project led by Fraunhofer IME will combine AI, biotechnology and soil microbiome research to develop potato and rice varieties that withstand drought, heat, salinity and disease.
Market ManagementSouth African potato and tomato prices tumble in a week as avocados jump 24%
Tomatoes fell 40% to R8.97 a kilo and potatoes 23% to R63.46 a 10kg bag on heavy arrivals and weak demand, while avocados rose to R20.07 a kilo, the weekly GroundRules market update shows.
VegetablesWild Andean potato relatives to help Kenya breed a blight and heat tolerant variety
A new phase of the Crop Trust's BOLD project, led by the International Potato Center in Kenya, will take 54 breeding lines carrying traits from wild potatoes towards a new variety and build the seed chain to get it to farmers.
VegetablesCanadian trials find some diploid potatoes match or beat standard varieties
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists screened 721 diploid potato clones and found that up to 29% of table and chip types yielded as well as or better than commercial four-chromosome-set potatoes, with good storage dormancy.
VegetablesPotato trials test late foliar potash, biostimulants and flower strips against aphids
At Dyson Farming Research in Lincolnshire, trials are testing late foliar potassium for dry matter, seaweed and microbial biostimulants, low-emission nitrogen products and floral tramlines that draw hoverflies to eat aphids.
AgrotechCropX sensors to track an eight-year regenerative potato trial in New Zealand
CropX will equip the Lincoln University McCain Foods NextGen Regenerative Farm with soil moisture probes, weather stations, satellite imagery and its AI agronomy platform to compare regenerative and conventional systems over a full potato rotation.
VegetablesPukekohe potato and onion grower Peter Reynolds wins horticulture's Bledisloe Cup
Peter Reynolds, whose family has grown potatoes, onions and pumpkins around Pukekohe for generations, received New Zealand horticulture's highest honour for his work for growers, research and environmental care on farms.
CropsNew UK potato blight fungicide also primes the plant's own defences, launch set for 2027
Certis Belchim's Areli, combining cyazofamid with valifenalate, a fungicide that also acts as a plant-defence elicitor, is registered in the UK for late blight in potatoes, with a full commercial launch in spring 2027.