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ITC's Technico Scales Aeroponic Seed Potato Output to 100 Million Mini-Tubers

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.

potatoes.me Editorial Desk · Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read

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AnalysisCIP China/Asia-Pacific Marks Third International Potato Day With Coordinated Pushpotatoes.me Editorial Desk · Jul 26, 2026

AnalysisPeru's 17 Protected Potato Varieties Show IP's Narrow Reachpotatoes.me Editorial Desk · Jul 25, 2026

AnalysisDKHV and UNIKA Appoint Dr. Illya Kolba as Joint Managing Directorpotatoes.me Editorial Desk · Jul 24, 2026

AnalysisChile's Push to Fix Its Agricultural Emissions Inventorypotatoes.me Editorial Desk · Jul 15, 2026

Research & Innovation

UK's First Precision-Bred Potato Clears Defra Approval

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.

Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Processing & Manufacturing

What One Engineer's Career Reveals About French Fry Megaprojects

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.

Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read

Processing & Manufacturing

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AI Sorting Technology Targets Potato Post-Harvest Losses in Russia

Freight and labor costs are climbing faster than potato margins can absorb, and expanding acreage isn't a reliable fix. That's pushing attention toward post-harvest sorting, where computer vision and AI are starting to replace manual grading lines.

Jul 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Policy & Industry Leadership

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Amur Region Offers Up to 70% Machinery Subsidies for Potato Growers

Russia's Amur region is backing its potato and vegetable growers with a layered subsidy system — per-hectare payments, machinery cost coverage of up to 70%, and storage-building grants — pointing to two farms with 30-year track records as evidence the approach works.

Jul 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Trade & Markets

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Ukraine's Potato Consumption Figure Was Off by Nearly Half

A joint KSE–UAVK research project finds Ukrainians eat roughly 68 kilograms of potatoes per person a year — less than half the 120–140 kg figure long cited across the industry, with implications for how the domestic market and processing potential get measured.

Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Trade & Markets

Chile's Potato Trade Gap Widens as Planted Area Shrinks

Chile's potato imports outran its exports by roughly 38 to 1 in the first half of 2026, even as wholesale prices jumped 44% year over year and the country's own planted area contracted.

Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read

Growing & Agronomy

The Living Soil Beneath the Potato Crop

Potato fields are also underground ecosystems, and decades of intensive tillage, fertiliser and monoculture have quietly worn down the microbial communities that keep that soil productive — a pattern an industry analysis says is now showing up as rising disease and diminishing returns from fertiliser.

Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read