According to agricultural marketing department data, the seed potato stock declined to 5.67 lakh tonnes by late October, against the annual demand of 7.5 lakh tonnes ...

When you eat a baked potato at a restaurant, or bite into a french fry, there is a good chance the seed it came from started ...

When you eat a baked potato at a restaurant, or bite into a french fry, there is a good chance the seed it came from started in Montana.

“We have five potato processing plants in Gujarat with an annual capacity of 2.5 lakh tonnes. Stating that potato seed ...

One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...

Seed dormancy allows plants to hedge their bets on the future ... Andes traveled to Svalbard to deposit seeds of their sacred potato varieties in the vault. In songs and prayers, they said ...

Bangladesh requires around 770,000 tonnes of seeds to grow potato every year, but public and private agencies can meet only 20 percent of the demand. Seeds kept by farmers and informally meet 80 ...

“A potato plant stressed by drought will consume itself,” she explains ... These pure white turnips which do best when ...

potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties ...

As the BADC prepares to distribute 2,800 metric tonnes of potato seeds in five districts of the greater Rangpur area, farmers are calling for government intervention to control seed prices.