Potato news archive – Page 78
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ArticleLondon markets back to their roots
Traders on London’s Portobello and Golborne Road markets linked up with New Covent Garden Market for the second time to celebrate home-grown roots last week.
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St Nicholas mash raises Tesco cash
Kent potato company St Nicholas Court Farms joined forces with Tesco last Friday in raising funds for the Help For Heroes charity with a special event.
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Fairtrade moves forward as category shows resistance
The rise of Fairtrade has been one of the biggest success stories in the produce industry in the last two decades. With the recent addition of melons to the Fairtrade offer, coupled with the category’s strength in the face of the recession and an impressive line-up at its conference, 2009 was a positive year for the Fairtrade Foundation. Alex Lawson caught up with executive director Harriet Lamb to find out more
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ArticleHow can the industry future proof fresh produce for tomorrow?
Future proofing any industry is a difficult challenge and substantial skills are required to ensure ongoing survival and growth. Doris Lee Butterworth reports
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ArticleProduction rise for US sweet potatoes
US sweet potato production rose in 2009, with severe losses in some areas tempered by record yields elsewhere.
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ArticleJoint promotion for Spanish potatoes
Spanish potato group Andalusian Early Potatoes is to run a promotional campaign with major packers aimed at shoppers
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NIAB unveils new glasshouses
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) is to officially open its new modern glasshouse development, the MacLeod Complex, this month.
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ArticlePotato campaign gathers speed
Grow Your Own Potatoes, the largest primary school growing project from the potato industry, is well on its way to smash targets for 2010 - but there is still time for industry to recruit local schools before registration closes on 5 February.
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ArticleBritish Roasties make comeback at Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s and Greenvale AP have teamed up to create the Roasties range from traditional British potato varieties that were popular when home cooking peaked.
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Innovation nominations unveiled
The 10 Fruit Logistica 2010 Innovation Award (FLIA) finalists have been selected by a panel of experts.
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ArticleNew potatoes battle to reach UK consumers’ plates
The imported new potato season usually offers UK consumers that extra special something to push away those post-Christmas doldrums, but this year tells a different tale. With UK stored maincrop in abundance, exporters are finding it tough to tempt the market back to new product. Elizabeth O’Keefe reports
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ArticleIrish potatoes suffer in big freeze
Potato growers in the Irish Republic are facing financial ruin, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), after what has been described as the worst weather for more than 50 years.
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Korean potatoes enter Singapore
Korean sweet potatoes have hit the Singaporean market with a shipment of 17.5 tonnes
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ArticleFresh produce players reveal their expectations for 2010
As the fresh produce industry gears up for 2010, FPJ catches up with leading figures from across the sector to find out their New Year’s resolutions for the industry and their expectations for the next 12 months
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ArticlePotato seed in spotlight
New developments in potato seed treatment and the technology for its application could provide growers with better control of skin diseases and reduce incidences of common scab, new findings have shown.
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ArticleThe freshinfo year - July
MBM in administration... All change at Total Produce... Branston unveils prepped factory... Keelings man retires... What else did July throw up?
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Egyptians back UK loyalty
The UK will never abandon Egyptian produce due to traditional trade links, despite considerable competition from rival exporting countries and the pressures of recession, according to Charripak’s president Antoine Chaer, who is also a board member of the Egyptian British Chamber of Commerce.
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Article'Supercarb' bid officially launched
The potato industry officially launched its campaign for spuds to be renamed as ‘supercarbs’, in order to clarify their standing with UK consumers at British Potato 2009.
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ArticleGreenvale Cascades to green success
Greenvale AP has said its radical new vegetable-cleaning system, Project Cascade, could save the industry billions of litres of water.
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WarmStor introduced to trade
A revolutionary store-warming system was introduced on a wider scale last month.