There are three main potato varieties: starchy, waxy and versatile all-purpose. Understanding these different types of ...

After harvesting, it's important to remember the next step: curing. "Curing toughens up a potato’s skin and extends its ...

When Wellars Habiyaremye, a 42-year-old farmer from Nyakiriba Sector in Rubavu District, first encountered the Kinigi potato in 1995, he had no idea it would define his livelihood and shape his family ...

There’s a new potato variety in town, and it’s said to be so creamy that you don’t need to add butter, cream, or anything else to dress it up—it’s delicious right from the field.

Solynta’s varieties, which are resistant to late blight, the fungus that caused the great Irish potato famine, have the potential to double yields “immediately,” according to Kruyt.

We want to see potato varieties that will turn a better profit for growers. So an example of this would be– we’re looking for maybe potato varieties that use less fertilizer or are less impacted by ...

How we test potatoes. We grow lots of varieties alongside each other and a sample of each variety grown is cooked and assessed for taste. They are then individually tasted by a group of trained ...

Gujarat has become India's capital of french fry production, home to huge factories churning out chips, including facilities belonging to Canadian giant McCain Foods and India's biggest maker of ...

Results of the 2024 Organic Specialty Potato Variety Trial conducted at Rogers Farm Forage and Crop Research Facility in Old Town will also be presented.