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12/04/2025

📣 Calling all potato professionals! 🥔🌍

The World Potato Congress invites you to an inspiring webinar:
“The Ecosystem Elements of Potato Sustainability”

🗓 April 16, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM EST

Join John Mesko, CEO of the Potato Sustainability Alliance, as he shares how PSA is going beyond metrics to tell a more complete, authentic story of sustainability—from soil health and biodiversity to climate resilience and farmer livelihoods.

Whether you're a grower, agronomist, processor, or supply chain stakeholder, you’ll leave with fresh insights and real-world strategies. Don’t miss this!

Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q03h5LKG0
World Potato Congress Inc.

The World Potato Congress continues its commitment to advancing global potato knowledge and sustainability with its upcoming webinar titled “The Ecosystem

29/11/2024

On December 6 World Potato Congress Inc. is presenting a 🥔webinar about: Supporting 15,000 small holder farmers in Kenya through a Hub Site Model. Christopher Gasperi, Founder & Managing Director of Limited, will explain the service delivery model.

On December 6 2024 the World Potato Congress is presenting a webinar on ‘Supporting small holder farmers in Kenya through a decentralized Hub Site Model’.

05/11/2024

Breeding resistant potato varieties such as those with late blight resistance, is a key objective of Agrico Research’s breeding program. 'Our innovative Next Generation varieties, with their natural late blight resistance, are the result of these efforts. This significantly reduces the risk of crop failure, leading to higher yield certainty for our growers.'

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wq21r0 Agrico Potatoes

04/11/2024

Danespo, emphasizes on sustainability and varieties that are strong and efficient: 'We are investing heavily in better breeding techniques for more precise potato breeding in the future. That also includes trial work and continuous testing in different climates. In most cases we have implemented the use of drones for better and more precise variety screenings.'

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02WpZWF0 Danespo

04/11/2024

In the future, Europlant expect to present varieties with a more durable resistance, not only based on main and secondary genes, but supported by field resistance, a resistance based on many genes (polygenic), more difficult to breed, but also more difficult to break. In other words, the sustainable solution rather than the quick win.

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02WpYhP0 Europlant Aardappel BV

02/11/2024

The 10 late blight resistant varieties from Geersing Potato Specialist have an average score of more then 8 and belong to the strongest available. 'Every new variety much reach this score, otherwise we don’t call them resistant. A new one in the pipeline being resistant is the red skinned Chloé. We are a fast growing company and already a market-leader in this type of varieties together with the biggest', explains Geersing Potato Specialist.

To protect the resistance of our varieties we started a sustainable potato platform (SPP) together with . The decreasing number of actives and phytophthora being resistant to some of those as well, makes that we need to go to a system where resistant varieties become the standard.

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wkh0h0

01/11/2024

Resistance to biotic and abiotic stress is very important for potato breeding. This year has been highly favourable to late blight and black leg, as opposed to the previous years when we had to face heat and drought. Biotic and abiotic stresses are linked, with pest and diseases specific to wet or drought conditions.

Germicopa breeding is working on resistance to blight, virus, and new diseases occurring with climate changes. In the meantime, quality traits must not be forgotten. Cooking, eating, frying qualities and yield are always priorities for relative markets.

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wkf190 Germicopa

01/11/2024

Main trends in breeding work of Interseed Potatoes are to provide new improved varieties which are presenting a sustainable progress for the consumer, for the grower and for the processor as well!

Interseed Potatoes is specialized in breeding new varieties for the processors to French fries and Chips. With the background of climate change we are looking for robust low-input varieties with highest output!

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wk2Nv0

31/10/2024

Beyond market developments, climate change, potato diseases and consumer needs, informatics and data are important factors in breeding new potato varieties at Meijer Potato. In fact, data-driven work is becoming increasingly important. 'Our own data platform is up and running, which offers us new and improved possibilities in developing the best potatoes of the future.'

Breeding robust potato varieties is essential to provide a growing world population with healthy food in the face of climate change. Thanks to our own robustness index, a tool that includes seven items of different variety characteristics, we can objectively compare the robustness of varieties. The Meijer Potato Robustness Index helps our customers and us to decide together what variety fits perfectly in their business and markets. The potato variety characteristics of the robustness index are based on data that has been collected for years in our breeding program.

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wk2rP0 Meijer Potato

31/10/2024

In addition to the traditional way of crossing and breeding, Schaap Holland participates in ‘ ’, that provides seeds including resistances against i.e. late blight, virus, wart disease and nematodes. The use of DNA marker technology is part of this. But we should not be blinded by using these techniques, agricultural properties are just as important for a new variety to become successful.

Read more in our Potato Variety Days ebook: https://hubs.ly/Q02Wj_5g0 Poldergoud

26/10/2024

From November 6-8, the Potato Variety Days 2024 will take place in the Netherlands. During these days, international trading and breeding companies present their (new) varieties to their existing and potential clients. https://hubs.ly/Q02VRN3N0 Agrico Potatoes | Danespo Meijer Potato | Poldergoud | | EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH | Germicopa |

From November 6-8, the Potato Variety Days 2024 will take place in the Netherlands. During these days, international trading and breeding companies present

23/10/2024

On Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 and Friday 8 November 2024, the annual Potato Variety Days will take place in the Netherlands. During these days, trading and breeding companies will present their (new) potato varieties and developments to existing and new customers.
As a very closely involved partner in the Potato Variety Days, PotatoWorld magazine would like to share this complete schedule, including all participants in the upcoming event, with you. Below you may therefore find the information regarding the companies that have arranged in person and/or online activities during the Potato Variety Days 2024. Be prepared and donwload our latest e-book: https://hubs.ly/Q02Vjk5L0
Agrico Potatoes | Danespo Meijer Potato| Poldergoud | | EUROPLANT Pflanzenzucht GmbH | Germicopa |

From November 6-8, the Potato Variety Days 2024 will take place in the Netherlands. During these days, trading and breeding companies present their (new)