"We produce more potatoes in our region than we could sell here"
Farmer and member of the Pfälzer Grumbeere producer group, Alexander Friedrich, grows early potatoes on about 60 to 65 hectares. For the most part, he says, the firm-cooking variety Annabelle is

Weather plays tricks on seed potatoes
The paradox of the situation is that when in Spain there was not even a hint of rain in April and May and the drought became the protagonist of the crops, in the main European seed potato

In Dagestan, the largest pear orchard in Russia was established
On June 4, Sharip Sharipov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Dagestan, visited the southern regions of the republic. He got acquainted with the work on increasing the area of pear

Fast growing Canadian lettuce vertical farm aims to dominate local market
Vertically farmed lettuce represents the future of agriculture as regular supply chain disruptions in traditional crop farming due to the weather, climate, and contamination remain as uncertain as

Today marks 64 years since New Zealand re-branded the Chinese gooseberry as kiwifruit
Today marks 64 years since New Zealand re-branded the Chinese gooseberry as kiwifruit. The first kiwifruit seeds were brought to New Zealand in 1904 by the principal of Wanganui Girls' College,