The people shaping potatoes, in their own words.

ITC's seed-technology subsidiary Technico is adding 60 controlled-environment greenhouses to push its aeroponic TECHNITUBER output to 100 million disease-free mini-tubers, a scale-up aimed at the earliest, most fragile link in the seed potato supply chain.

Four new potato lines bred in Pakistan cross the 22 percent dry-matter threshold processors demand for fries and chips, offering a domestic alternative to imported Dutch varieties that currently dominate the country's processing supply.

Bryansk region's 2026 potato harvest is running well ahead of its grain harvest, with more than a quarter of the planned area already dug and yields tracking near 28 tons per hectare while wheat, barley and rye remain in earlier stages.

Russian potato growers are no longer debating whether to adopt AI-powered sorting — the conversation at a recent Kostroma field day had already moved to comparing vendors, payback timelines, and measurable results.

A disease-resistant Maris Piper line has become the UK's first potato approved under the Precision Breeding Act, opening a path toward fewer fungicide sprays and a possible reshuffling of where British seed potatoes get grown.

Two of the world's largest French fry factories were built by the same in-house engineering team over eight years — and the person who led that work then left to advise the industry at large. That trajectory says something about how capital projects in potato processing are actually staffed now.