Info Root Vegetables 2015

Info ROOT & VEGETABLES 2015

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Editor:SPE3 - Especialistes en Serveis per a la Producció Editorial, S.L.

Coordination:Alicia Namesny / Antonio Delgado / Pere Papasseit

Realization & Design:Carácter Gráfico, S.L.

Production, Distribution and Copyright:SPE3 - Especialistes en Serveis per a la Producció Editorial, S.L.

Doctor Manuel Candela 26, 11ª 46021 Valencia - SpainPh.: +34-649 485 [email protected] - www.postharvest.bizwww.horticulturablog.comwww.publicaciones.poscosecha.com


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General Index

Index of companies ......................................................................................... 4

Index of news .................................................................................................... 6

Evolution and history of the peeling landscape of processed foods, a story by Tomra Sorting Solutions .............................................................. 8

Global Potato Research for a Changing World ........................................ 18

Delicatessen, Marketing & Ideas with........................................................ 23

Equipment and materials for production and postharvest ................. 35

News ................................................................................................................... 83

Media ................................................................................................................108

Associations and growers ...........................................................................110

Trade fairs and other meeting ...................................................................119


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Index of Companies

Agricoat Natureseal Ltd. ............................................................................... 36

Constructie Bruynooghe .............................................................................. 38

Apollinaire Technologie Ltd. ....................................................................... 67

Compac Sorting Equipment ........................................................................ 40

Decco Ibérica Post Cosecha s.a.u. .............................................................. 42

Domca s.a. ........................................................................................................ 44

Ejido Cartón s.l. ............................................................................................... 48

Fam n.v. ............................................................................................................. 50

Fomesa Fruitech s.l. ....................................................................................... 54

Forigo Roteritalia ............................................................................................ 56

FtNon - Food Technology Noord-Oost Nederland b.v. ....................... 58

Greefa ................................................................................................................ 60

Grupo Giró ....................................................................................................... 47

Ingemaq ........................................................................................................... 62

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Ingeniería Prodol s.a. ..................................................................................... 53

Intersemillas .................................................................................................... 64

Marrodan s.a. ................................................................................................... 68

MAF Roda Agrobotic ..................................................................................... 70

Tomra .............................................................................................................8, 72

T.R. Turoni s.r.l. ................................................................................................. 74

ULMA Packaging S. Coop. ........................................................................... 76

Visar Sorting .................................................................................................... 78

Wyma Solutions .............................................................................................. 80


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Index of News

Dutch Firm Kiremko Enters India’s Crowded Potato Chips Market ... 84

The optimum storage condition for garlic seed-bulb, ambient temperature ..................................................................................................... 85

The new Slitmaster SLL .................................................................................. 86

Sortex A ............................................................................................................. 86

Falcon ................................................................................................................. 87

Glide.................................................................................................................... 87

Controlled oscillation grader ....................................................................... 87

The future of polishing is coming: New Wyma Vege-Polisher in Potato Expo and Fruit Logistica .............................................................. 88

Onion spraying of fungicides especially at 80 days after sowing found to minimise Colletotrichum circinans infection carried to storage .......................................................................................................... 89

New TECNOCEAM Vegetable - Processing Lines in PORTUGAL .......... 90

An increasing number of properties for the edible coatings.............. 91

World carrot production increases a 50% over the last ten years, but decreases in Europe, specially South ................................................. 92

Projects and new results in organic carrots by CIOA............................. 93

Trends in carrot production and breeding in Japan .............................. 94


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Influence of the technique of direct covering with a perforated polyethylene film on yield and earliness of three carrot cultivars .... 95

Improvement phosphate fertilising practices in carrot crops ............ 96

The percepcion of organoleptic quality of the carrot depends variety and location of production ............................................................ 97

U.S.: Sweet potato exports spike over five-year period ........................ 98

19.529 visitors at INTERPOM PRIMEURS .................................................... 98

NIRS, promissory technology to determine starch content of lyophilized potatoes ................................................................................100

Schouten Octabin Filler ...............................................................................101

Grimme VARITRON 470 ................................................................................102

Root distribution in potato may explain drought resistance ............102

Dewulf RJA2060 .............................................................................................103

Management of potato storage conditions to avoid diseases .........103

DC 3000............................................................................................................104

HP Compact™ .................................................................................................104

Spirit 9200 Varioweb ....................................................................................105

Condor Endurance ........................................................................................106


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Evolution and history of the peeling landscape of processed foods, a story

by Tomra Sorting Solutions

http://www.postharvest.biz/en/company/tomra-sorting-solutions/_id:62802,seccion:news,noticia:77263/

Steam peeling was first introduced in the 1960’s in Europe as a method to remove the skin from root crops in food processing as a response to the en-vironmental concerns with caustic and chemical peeling, being the standard methodology at that time.

Subsequently the secondary benefit of steam peeling, higher yields and lower peel losses, was discovered which resulted in the continuous innovation since then to improve yield and reduce peel loss in peeling systems.

The peelers in the early days were relatively small with low capacities up to 10 ton per hour, suitable for smaller processors of potatoes and other root ve-getables, but not for the larger capacity French Fry producers.

ODENBERG, now part of TOMRA Sorting Solutions, first entered the batch steam peeling market in 1974 when they acquired a controlling interest in the Dutch company Komen & Kuin BV. The early batch steam peelers operated at very low steam pressures. They were designed for a maximum pressure of 10 bar (150 PSIG) with many of them operating with pressure as low as 6 bar.

Since ODENBERG’s landmark entry to the steam peeling market in 1974, they have continuously been innovating and developing new designs to achie-ve the remarkable transformation we see in steam peeling technology today. Through ongoing innovation they became market leaders by continuously focu-sing on optimising the peeling process. Due to constant vigilance and desire to do better, TOMRA Sorting Solutions, who now represents the brand ODENBERG, is until today leading the market.

The graph in Fig. 1 shows yield improvements throughout the past 40 years and each improvement on the graph represents a design change or new innovation by TOMRA.

With the theoretical weight of skin [of potatoes] being measured at bet-ween 2 – 3% of the total weight TOMRA had the clear vision of developing pro-cesses and technologies that would facilitate the design of a steam peeling line with this 2-3% peel loss as the target.


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Steam time and peel loss

The biggest single factor by far in the reduction of peel loss in the steam peeling process is the steam time. A reduction in steam time gives an immediate reduction in peel loss with a corresponding increase in yield. Although there has been a lot of anecdotal evidence as to the benefit of reducing steam time by just one second, TOMRA carried out extensive testing on a range of potato quality and age. This was done with the aim of developing their own algorithms in order to establish this relationship for different conditions, raw product and desired peel quality.

The graph in Fig. 2 shows a typical curve comparing peel loss to steam time. The actual numbers will vary depending on a large number of variables, the most important one being potato size. As an indicator there is a general ac-ceptance within the industry that for each one second of additional steam time there will be an increase in peel loss of 0.3 to 0.5% for French Fry potatoes..

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Steam pressure and steam supply system

ODENBERG led the change in developing vessels to handle high steam pressures starting from 6 bar in the late sixties to today, where TOMRA Sorting


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Solutions is the only company offering vessels designed and certified for 24 bar and most French Fry companies will operate up to 20 bar.

The benefits of high pressure (which gives higher temperature steam) are generally accepted to be a reduction in the steam time required with a resul-tant reduction in peel loss. Apart from the higher temperature achieved there is another benefit which is a faster flow of steam into the vessel which will further reduce the steam time and peel loss.

The graph in Fig. 3 shows a typical curve comparing peel loss with steam pressure. Again the actual peel loss will vary depending on a number of varia-bles, potato size being the most important.

The steam supply system i.e. boiler, pipework sizing etc. are really critical in terms of eventual peeler performance and they are often forgotten about or wrongly sized. As part of their peeler selection process ODENBERG carried out an audit of the customers’ existing steam supply systems and made recommenda-tions for the new installation. In summary a poorly designed supply system can add seconds to the steam time required resulting in increased peel loss.

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Peeling vessel shapes and configuration

The most important element of an efficient steam peeling process is to ensure that each individual potato receives equal and uniform heat/steam treatment. If the steam treatment is not uniform then longer steam times will be required with the resultant increase in peel loss. Over the years achieving this uniform treatment of each potato has been a challenge primarily because of the quantity of potatoes [1200 to 1500 potatoes] in a typical batch and the restric-tions of international pressure vessel design codes to the vessel shapes we could realistically use to optimise the mixing of the steam with the potatoes.

ODENBERG has worked with various bottle style configurations (oblique, straight up, squat etc.) up until 1999 when they introduced the patented round vessel with internal agitators. This vessel, called the Orbit was probably the most revolutionary change in rotating steam peeler technology ever and immediately


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achieved reductions in peel loss of 1.0-2.0% over the bottle design for high pre-forming French Fry operators.

Vessel rotational speeds

Vessel rotational speeds have increased from 4- 6 rpm in the mid 70’s to rotating speeds of 22rpm in the new TOMRA Eco steam peeling designs. The cu-rrent high speeds are only made possible because of the finely balanced orbi-tal vessel shape. The high speed combined with the vessel shape and patented lifters/agitators ensure all potatoes are continuously in a state of motion, thus allowing all potato surfaces equal exposure to steam during the complete steam time.

Cycle times and capacity

The capacity of a peeler is determined by the batch weight and the num-ber of cycles or batches per hour. The batch size in turn is determined by ves-sel size. The other capacity variable is cycle time which determines the number of batches per hour. The cycle time for a batch comprises simply of the steam treatment time plus all other non-steam times. In the mid-seventies these non-steam times varied from 40 to 60 seconds.

However since 1999, the Orbit and more recently the new Eco peeler have been reducing the non-steam times up to 22 seconds. This gives approximately 15 -20% more batches per hour compared to the older bottle design which in turn gives a similar percentage increase in size capacity for size vessel compari-son or perhaps more importantly allows a smaller vessel size to be used for the same capacity.

Steam time management and control

All new developments and innovations since the 1970’s have been driven by the need to reduce the steam time required to remove skin from the potato. The control of this steam time, even today in most plants is a manual operation performed by an operator or QC person based on their analysis of the peeled potato. Depending on the operator, this can be hit or miss and in order to play safe and meet the end product specifications, the operator tends to increase the steam time to more than is required which results in peel and yield loss. In the mid 90’s ODENBERG recognised the need for accurate control of steam time changes and designed a peel quality scanner the Peel Scanner², which uses a high resolution CCD camera system to inspect peeled potatoes and based on a pre-set quality control set point, it decides when more or less steam time is re-quired. In plants where current steam time management is good, the introduc-tion of the Peel Scanner² can achieve a peel loss reduction of 0.25 to 0.5%, and in plants where current steam time management is poor, the savings can be much greater. As the scanner can differentiate between peel and all other defects it en-sures that the steam peeler is only peeling for skin and not defects (Fig.4).


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FIG.4

THE FIRST COMPANY TO INTRODUCE BATCH STEAM PEELERS TO THE USA

In 1975 ODENBERG sold and installed the first steam peeler to McCain Foods in Easton, Northern Maine. This was followed in quick succession with a number of similar size and design installation in the USA. The reason for the ex-tremely fast adoption of this new technology in the USA was simply a dramatic reduction in peel/flesh loss compared to the peeling technology in use at that time.

Lye, the alternative peeling process at that time

Prior to the arrival of the first batch steam peeler into the USA in 1975 the technology of choice for most French Fry processors was Lye. This process uses a caustic solution at 80-95° C to chemically attack the skin/ peel of potatoes. The chemically treated potatoes were then passed through a series of brushers and washers which removed the treated skin/peel while at the same time removing a significant percentage of good flesh from the potato. It was not uncommon to see peel and flesh losses of up to 20% or more! Compared to flesh losses of 12-14% with the new steam peeling method you can see why these savings ensured there was a near immediate acceptance of this new steam peeling technology throughout the French Fry industry in the North America. Another benefit was a reduction/elimination of environmental issues in dealing with effluent from the caustic peeling process.

Early adopters of the technology

The early adopters of steam peeling technology were processors of all kinds of root vegetables who were mainly using chemical peeling with plant lo-cations in urban areas. The French Fry industry only adopted the new technology


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when the higher capacity, higher pressure, higher yield machines were develo-ped in the 1970’s. From that point on there was a continuous change from che-mical to steam peeling right across the root vegetable food processing industry.

THE ORBIT REVOLUTIONThe driving force behind the revolution

Because approximately 50% of the final cost of the French Fry is the raw potato product, any savings in this raw material has a major effect on the cost of the end product. Peeling is and always has been the one area in a plant where savings are still achieveable and targeted. If one looks at the graph (Fig.1) you will see that over the years there has been a constant drive to reduce the losses in the peeling area so it is not surprising that the main driver of innovation was the French Fry industry where even a small reduction in peel loss was important because of the high volumes and the cost of the raw materials. All through the years in this continuous drive for innovation ODENBERG had one simple design objective when they were developing their machines and it was “Every potato must receive exactly the same thermal treatment during the peeling process and this treatment period (steam time) must be the shortest time possible”. Over the last 40 years ODENBERG/TOMRA Sorting Solutions adhered rigidly to this goal. Other areas of the potato processing industry such as dehydration, chilled pro-ducts and other root vegetables such as carrots, swedes, celeriac etc. reaped the benefits of the innovations introduced for the French Fry industry however with a lower return on investment due to shorter seasonal run times and lower costs for the raw materials. One non-potato product which influenced the innovation and design of the Orbit peeler was baby carrots particularly in Europe, where yield improvements of 4-6% were achieved. Baby carrots were the ultimate test for a steam peeler because of their small size and large surface area compared to French Fry potatoes.

Was there a point when you questioned if further improvements were possible?

Yes, by the end of the 1990’s most of the major plants had adopted this technology and no one believed that further peel loss reductions were possible. However ODENBERG was not satisfied that improvements could not be achie-ved and as part of a new peeler design project ODENBERG made a decision to review/revisit the peeling process rather than jump to actual machine design itself. To do this ODENBERG built a process oriented laboratory where tests were carried out over a twelve month period, checking multiple process parameters and different machine and steam supply characteristics. The results were extre-mely interesting and positive, in terms of the optimum process to achieve the lowest peel loss. However they were then faced the challenge to see if this pro-cess could be converted to a new machine design and scaled to production ca-pacities knowing it would be difficult but if 50% of the laboratory results were achieved it would be a winner.


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The Orbit design

After only a short time it was concluded that the current bottle vessel te-chnology would not be able to replicate the laboratory results. After much brain storming 35 different vessel designs were reviewed before settling on the cu-rrent Orbit circular configuration. However the new patented vessel design alone was not considered to be sufficient to achieve the peel loss objectives and the other area of the laboratory results that needed to be scaled up was the near instant exhaust (time to evacuate all steam from the peeling vessel).

This proved to be just as big a challenge as the new vessel design. Howe-ver after two years design and testing the ODENBERG XP valve was born. The new design addressed two major issues: exhaust times of 1 second or less and substantially longer valve life when compared to existing plug and ball valves. In keeping with continuous development, the XP Valve has since been redesigned as part of the Eco project to give an even longer life (at least double).

INTEGRATED APPROACH TO STEAM PEELING – POST PEEL, RE-PEEL, SCANNERS, SORTERS Ultimate high yield peeling module

ODENBERG now TOMRA Sorting decided after ten years supplying only steam peelers that some of the gains achieved by an efficient well run peeler were being lost by the incorrect selection and location of post peel equipment such as brushers etc. This led to the development of a Dry Peel Separator which replaced brushers immediately after the peeler giving a substantial reduction in flesh losses while still achieving the dry peel separation. A peeling line now allows for much shorter and more yield efficient steam times combined with a 3 way sorter which directs defect potatoes to a re-peel line. The development of the ODENBERG/ TOMRA Sorting whole potato sorter range, particularly the 3 way Halo sorter has revolutionised the whole re-peel concept. Re-peeling allows the producer to steam peel optimally for the majority of potatoes with low de-fect levels and then send the remainder with unacceptable defects levels to the re-peel line. The overall result is an overall lower peel loss with higher yields.

Value of a 1% reduction in peel loss

While processors have many detailed and sophisticated formulae for cal-culating yield savings and total line efficiency, the largest potential for savings is with the peeling module i.e. the complete peeling line and not just the steam peeler. In its simplest form a reduction in peel loss of 2% means that 2% less potatoes are required for the same output at the end of the line. Clearly the savings calculation would be different if the same input to the line was main-tained which would result in a higher yield output to packaging however this calculation varies from producer to producer and is dependent on the end pro-


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duct specification, variety of potatoes and numerous areas of line efficiencies of which we would have no knowledge. For the savings calculation we will assume a reduction of 1% in peel loss for a line rate of 30,000 kg/hr and 6,000 operating hours. The other major factor in the calculation is the price of potatoes. Histori-cally the price fluctuates from year to year. As an example for raw product cost of €125 per ton, the savings for a 1% reduction in peel loss would be €225,000 per year.

(Calculation: 6000 hrs/year Operating Time x 30 ton/hr x 0,01% Peel Loss Improvement x €125/ton = €225,000) and pro rata for higher peel loss saving and potato price.

LOOKING AHEAD The new Eco Peeler from TOMRA Sorting Solutions

The Eco peeler was designed keeping in mind the fact that the steam pe-eler is the second highest user of steam in a French Fry plant. This and the con-tinuous drive for improved yields were the main drivers behind the Eco develop-ment. The Eco peeler was launched at the Northwest Expo in Portland, Oregan earlier this year. Compared to its predecessor, the Orbit which is the universally accepted leader in steam peeling technology since 1999, the Eco has been de-signed primarily to provide lower energy usage and the ongoing attainment of reduced peel loss. The benefits and advantages of the new Eco design can be summarised as follows:

• Reduced energy/steam consumption of up to 25%. [Worth c. €50,000 to €80,000 per year depending on local Energy Costs]

• Improved process/peeling characteristics i.e. faster come up to pressure/shorter steam time/quicker exhaust.

• Peel loss reduction [average] of 0,5% compared to Orbit have been achieved and validated

• Improved and more uniform steam treatment of all individual potatoes with new internal agitator configuration combined with increased/higher vessel speeds (22 rpm)

• New process and steam control software with inbuilt diagnostics and steam optimisation algorithms.

• Reduced cost of ownership with new XPT exhaust valve and new high volume door.

• Higher capacity of up to 25% compared to same size peelers.


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Conclusion

With current average peel losses of 5-6% one must ask the question as to whether the industry and TOMRA can go much lower. If we look at the theoreti-cal amount of peel on a potato we can assume its somewhere in the region on 2-3% depending on the potato size (there is much discussion and disagreement as to what the number is). While the Eco will be the industry leader for some years to come, TOMRA Sorting Solutions will continue to research new ways and methods to improve the peeling process further.

About TOMRA Sorting Solutions

TOMRA Sorting Solutions, http://www.tomra.com/food, the pioneer in the area of optical sorting operating in the mining, recycling and food industry acquired ODENBERG in 2010 and the Belgian BEST Sorting in June 2012. The-se takeovers united two leading companies and strengthened TOMRA Sorting Solution’s position as the food industry’s favourite supplier offering farm to fork solutions.

TOMRA SORTING SOLUTIONSResearch Park Haasrode 1622, Romeinse Straat 203001 Leuven - BÉLGICAPh.: +32-16 396396Fax: +32-16 [email protected]/food


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Global Potato Research for a Changing World

http://issuu.com/horticulturaposcosecha/docs/233549142-global-pota-to-research-fo

Manuel Gastelo, Ulrich Kleinwechter and Merideth Bonierbale,

International Potato Center (CIP)

The report “Global potato research for a changing world” provides an overview on newly available technology options for increasing crop yields and improving yield stability in potato production.

Biotic and abiotic constraints to crop production are discussed in detail and technologies to address these constraints are presented.


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As a principal contribution, the report offers a comprehensive overview of technologies available for potato production. With special emphasis on im-proved varieties, it covers the different types of technologies and approaches, oriented towards yield improvement, yield stabilization as well as aspects of crop quality.

Therefore, it not only represents an encompassing exposé of technolo-gies for further use by CIP researchers, but also offers a starting point for pros-pective analyses of technology impacts.

The authors of the report, published 2014, are Manuel Gastelo, Ulrich Kleinwechter and Merideth Bonierbale, International Potato Center (CIP). It is part of the work the International Potato Center (CIP) carries out in cooperation with other Centers of the CGIAR and external partners in the scope of the Global Futures for Agriculture and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Project. GFSF aims at as-sessing the potential impact of technologies developed by agricultural research for development on crop production, economic welfare and food security, the-reby informing program planners, donors and the technology developers them-selves as to the merits and the expected impacts of their work and investments.

The contents include

NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR POTATO PRODUCTION

- Shifting the Yield Frontier and Improving Yield Stability

- Genetic improvement of the potato crop and advanced clones and va-rieties

- Seed technologies

- Management technologies for pests and diseases

Plus numerous graphics and an appendix about CIP nurseries for advan-ced potato clones

Importance of the potato

In terms of human consumption, potato is the third most important food crop in the world, following only rice and wheat (FAO 2011).


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In 2009, world production reached 330 million tons (Figure 1), of which 18 million tons were produced in Africa, 16 Million tons in South & Central Ame-rica, 59 Million tons in South & West Asia, 9 Million tons in Central Asia and the Caucasus and 89 Million tons in East Asia & the Pacific (FAO 2011).

The total harvested area was almost 20 million hectares in 2009 (Figure 2). While total production area has declined slightly for the world as a whole, it keeps increasing in developing countries, reflecting a shift in production away from developed countries.

Influence of climatic changes in plant diseases

Climate change causes variation in the incidence and intensity of pres-sure from pests and diseases. In the case of late blight, for example, increasing temperatures and precipitation may be the reason that potato crops in many re-gions which previously had no presence of this disease have become affected in recent years. Among biotic stress factors, late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is the most important disease of potato worldwide.

Plant productivity depends on photosynthesis and temperature

Plant productivity depends on the efficiency of photosynthesis; determi-nation of the status of photosynthesis can be measured by chlorophyll fluores-cence to identify genotypes with differences in photosynthetic efficiency under drought (Tournex et al. 2003).

A second important abiotic factor affecting yield stability and productivi-ty of potato is temperature. High temperature affects the rates of photosynthesis and respiration, with the former being reduced and the latter increased. Tempe-ratures of above 20ºC cause reduction of approximately 25% in the rate of pho-tosynthesis and tolerance to high temperatures may be associated more with di-fferences in respiration than in photosynthesis (Levy and Veilleux 2007).

From a production point of view, tuber growth under warm conditions is important. At higher temperatures, typically above 25ºC, tuber initiation and tu-ber growth are inhibited, the former leading to delays in tuberization.


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Certain Solanum species may be exploited as sources for breeding for to-lerance to high temperatures.

Pest and disease management

IPM for potato production systems offers several options which are ready for implementation. These options comprise inoculative biological control and technologies to replace insecticide interventions. Inoculative biological control offers the possibility to increase the resilience of potato agroecosystems to pest outbreaks by controlling for invasive species. For this purpose, a number of para-sitoids are maintained at CIP and available for distribution to national programs.

Examples include Copidosoma koehleri, Orgilus lepidus, Apanteles su-bandinus for potato tuber moth control and Halticoptera arduine, Chrysocharis flacilla and Phaedrotoma scabriventris for the leafminer fly (CIP 2012b).

CIP has developed an integrated management program for late blight control. As Figure 5 illustrates, this program is composed of different elements, including genetic, chemical, agronomic and biological control, which in their conjunction allow a successful control of the disease and help to reduce or avoid losses.

Quotations refer to the the complete document, available in http://issuu.com/horticulturaposcosecha/docs/233549142-global-potato-re-search-fo


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Delicatessen, Marketing & Ideas with...


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ALL THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITHAll the companies taking part in a “filiére” – that utmost elegant French expression to describe an economic sector, an industry or a supply chain – make efforts to satisfy the final customer, which is the real custo-mer. Or is the end user of your customer´s products, when this last one is an input supplier. Products offered in stores or by wholesalers – how are they shown, what is said about them – indicate the aspects in which the industry can best attend consumer´s wishes.Even if we are not aware of that.The following images are gathered accor-ding to categories displaying all of them a common denominator. Diversity, fresh pre-sentation, ready to use produce, and also suggestions and sale arguments.

DIVERSITY

The range of plant variety – its diversity - aims to satisfy those consumers seeking something different. Plant varieties offer value for growers, for post-harvest, for pro-cessing, for retailers, for the gastronomic industry or for the final consumer. Variety confers quality.

The horseradish, a classic in the German cuisine.

Both pictures show a French supermarket, showing the special attention paid to sub-terranean vegetables by the culinary art of that country. The first picture shows, in the foreground, celeriacs; and the second one, plastic packages and loose presentation of salsifies – or maybe scorzonera.


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In the foreground, topinambur, a forgotten vegetable having a comeback.

Sweet onions are a specialty that encoura-ges even the most reluctant consumers. A brand can be seen in the label.

Enhancing the value of the horseradish using a name pointing out to its taste – Kolo Rico -… maybe it is really tasty; isn´t it?

Carrots with different colors to create new products. The plastic lining of the boxes suggests keeping the product´s freshness..


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Shallots, a world of diversity within the Alliaciae.

Those leeks; are they all the same? No way. All are different. Many technicians have participated in the genetic improvement process. Genetic experts from seed compa-nies and agronomists assessing the quality, for instance (in the photograph, a docu-ment issued by the INTIA of the province

of Navarra, in Spain). Besides, growers have chosen the right cultivar to adjust planting season and agronomic traits of the plot…afterwards, the commercial channel down to the consumer shapes the process. What do those players do? Do they asses diffe-rent qualities? Do they show differences at the point of sale? Do they tell the consu-mers about that? What does the industry believe that its clients – the actual consu-mers – know? Regarding aspects like ce-lery, a “White Lisbon” salad onion or a deli-cious shallot.“White Lisbon” onion:http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vege-tables/vegetable-seeds/onion-and-leek-seeds/bunching-spring- onion-white -lisbon/528TMShallot:http://www.xn--igpcalotdevalls-jmb.cat/

FRESH PRODUCE

Companies like the French “Ail du Soleil” take good advantage of packaging mate-rials like nets or labels. This brand uses dis-plays to attract customers to the point of sale.


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A display for onions, garlic and shallots packed in nets, belonging to the brand “Prince de Bretagne”, a French cooperative very thorough with the product presenta-tion. The display has the shape of a mini – pallet that makes transportation and hand-ling in the store easier, while supporting also merchandising actions. In the same way that beauty products are often displa-yed in the drugstore. A real positive point for “Prince de Bretagne”.

The stripe makes a difference in the net package upper part of the picture. Four onions weigh less than a kilogram, only four onions with the price shown on the la-bel. The stripe, if it were larger, could dis-play more information.

Different presentation to make sweet onions more customized. Onions could be more or less sweet, ecological, early har-vested, produced or selected after….an-ything, but let us display it. An example of communication through image.


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Cardboard packaging with large openings and handles, to carry potatoes comforta-bly. With Cyprus quality. The box has a dis-penser that makes easier to keep all clean at home.

Another cardboard package with a mova-ble component that makes product dis-pensing easier. A possible use could be to improve the presentation of ecologically grown potatoes.

Potatoes packed vertically in net tubes (fo-reground) and potatoes for the microwave oven behind. The labels identify the pro-duct. Each net contains about one kilo-gram of produce.In a large number of cou-ntries, individual households make up for more than 50 % of the total. The five pota-toes are easy to carry, and the customer will be back in the store soon…


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The pictures show plastic and net bags dis-playing a broad stripe. Both types of pac-kaging compete in the supermarkets to convey consumers information about the traits of different produce varieties. The size of the units is important. In the UK, one out of five potatoes is thrown away.

Two very new CMSA vessels, a plastic and a paper one. Both have good ventilation and content´s view in common, taking into ac-count consumer´s wishes.

The same variety – “Amandine” – displayed under different forms, according to su-ggested use. In the case of the green pac-kaging, the proposal is to serve them with asparagus. Left, roasting is the proposal.

The packages are nets or baskets made of very thin wood, wrapped in flow pack. The picture shows only a few of the displays of this potato producing company.

Nets with garlics. An attractive set combi-ned with a carboard tray.

Presentation of the Voghiera garlics, a Pro-tected Designation of Origin. The label is bigger than the three garlic heads and most likely it displays a good story about that producing region. Some regional ad-ministrations could pay the same attention to local horticulture that they do with wine production, for instance. A well designed label can suggest different types of infor-mation. In many cases the right labeling coordination, applied to local horticultural produce can enhance the profile of the whole region.


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Nets are also used to package leek. Two di-fferent presentations for endives. Both of them display messages from the grower. One of them on flexible plastic, the other one on the cardboard box.

A classic vegetable. A modern packaging design adds value to the produce. The plastic temperature sealing of the cover is customized.

READY TO USE

In the middle of the picture, a package containing the edible part of leek. This leek variety is very valuable, all can be used.

Turned carrots make consumption easier. And also colored carrots. Messages are of utmost importance to sell these kinds of vegetables.


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Whole carrots, ready to eat as a snack whi-le under way. Snacks to go!

Rutabaga ready to use under any prepara-tion. The labels display information. How many people would be able to use them correctly in the kitchen?

Potatoes are a leading product regarding “ready made “options. Both pictures are examples. Clean and cut. If there is not la-belling or merchandising at the POS, we can conclude that the intended market for the product is the restaurant industry.

Seasoned potatoes. We are talking about V Gama. In the case of potatoes, the gastro-nomic presentation is much more valuable than the raw materials.

Many companies have made of wash and cut potatoes, raw or precooked, their main line of sales.


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The range of ready made options for onions in order to make consumption ea-sier, mostly through the HoReCa channel, is also very large. Somebody else must shed the tears …

Light processed red onions. That packa-ging seems to be used for frozen vegeta-bles. The bags are opaque and do not allow to see the content. The pictures make the contents seem larger and impro-ve its looks. Like ice cream, isn´t it?

Carrots are also displayed with many diffe-rent presentations. Points of sale could be developed displaying a steadily growing number of ready made presentations, to-gether with instruments and instructions on how to prepare them.

Carrots and potatoes in the field have a low value. Nevertheless, some companies prepare and offer them under all different shapes and preparations. Some of these companies have been able of creating brands that open them the possibility to act as growers, processors or even retailers in the future.


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Potatoes are an essential element of some ready made dishes. The person with the packages in the picture looks very innova-tive. He could be an industrialist operating a large kitchen for ready made menus. Where does he come from? From the food industry? Is he a vegetable grower? Or ma-ybe from the protein industry? What do you think?

SUGGESTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

Crunchiness is one of the main appeals of raw carrots. Following this line of sale, one of the essential points should be cropping date. Another important aspect is the ori-gin, explain where does the produce come from or goes to. And be presented as “more fresh.” Almost like fresh cut pro-ducts.

Preparation proposals are essential for pro-motion of consumption. Could you prepa-re some potatoes like the ones shown in the picture? NO. But that is the impulse to buy them, in the first place.


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A clear suggestion in this case is steaming cooking. Not all suppliers have the right varieties for this kind of cooking. Probably the best adapted ones are the extra-early varieties, because they have a thin skin and soft flesh. Potatoes to be steamcooked re-quire to be perfectly clean, carefully was-hed. Never use large pieces, because the guests have to peel them by hand. As it is done in the Canary Islands with the “papas arrugadas” (“wrinkled potatoes”).

Regarding potatoes sold as “steamed pota-toes”, consider cross marketing. The possi-bility of offering sauces could be even more interesting for the trader selling this branded product.

In this case, the proposal is the cooking in microwave oven. This is a clear example of consumers trading value for time.According to a recent survey, in 1980 people cooking home accepted a time in-vestment of 60 minutes to prepare their

meals. In the nineties, that time had redu-ced to 45 minutes and presently nobody wants to spend more than 32 minutes in the kitchen. Besides, please do not raise too much havoc with a lot of pots there.

One potato for each receipt. All are “ex-press receipts”… quickly and to the table. Receipts must be provided. Do not trust much the creativity of the customer…. most likely he or she do not have any. And if that is not the case, it is always interes-ting to pose a challenge and enhance that creativity.


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Equipment and materials for production and postharvest


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AGRICOAT NATURESEAL LTD.

7B Northfield Farm - Great Shefford RG17 7BY BERKSHIRE - UNITED KINGDOMPh.: +44-(0)1488-648988 Fax: +44-(0)1488-648890 [email protected]

Agricoat Natureseal offers products to maintain quality in freshcut fruit and vege-tables

Natureseal dips are composed of food grade vitamin and minerals, developed and formulated specifically for various freshcut products. Natureseal PS10 has been used for some years by processors of a variety of vegetables, but specifically roots, including potato, parsip, celeriac, and sweet potato. The formulation has also been used successfully on some varieties of pepper, and cucurbits such as butternut squash.Although good technical results are seen, and customers do use the products on some of these vegetables, the relatively high cost has meant processors of lower value products, such as whole peeled, or quartered potato, have struggled to make the change from the industry standard for these products, sodium metabisulphite. Although sulphites are still widely used, there is a growing demand for sulphite free alternatives, and Agricoat Natureseal have been working hard to develop a solution that will give comparable results on potato at a lower cost than our PS10 solution. The company is now testing with industry partners new formulations that show promise, especially when used in combination with vacuum packaging or a microperforated MA film.

The use of Natureseal™ PS10 to extend the shelf life of fresh cut parsnip

This trial was used to verify the effectiveness of Natureseal™ PS10 when used on parsnips. Different concentrations of PS10 were tested with prepared samples, and the samples eva-luated over four days.The results suggest that treatment Natureseal™ PS10 solution at approximately 8 %w/w concentration is effective as way of extending the shelf life of peeled and cutparsnip pieces.


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Natureseal™ PS10 en nabos

More information:http://www.postharvest.biz/en/company/agricoat-naturesealltd/_id:49906,seccion:news,noticia:77119/

SR1 as alternative to the sodium metabisulfite in ready to use potatoes

The use of sodium metabisulfite to maintain the quality of peeled and fresh cut potatoeshas the advantage of the economy but it use is increasingly questioned in certainmarkets. Current technology offers potential alternatives as are other types ofpreservatives and modified atmospheres. An essay evaluates Agricoat SR1 as dipsolution, and Amcor plastic packaging with selective permeability.This study suggests that King Edward not only have a longer shelf life than Maris piperwhen untreated, but they also respond better to the treatments. The trial indicates that ashelf life of P+7 for King Edward, and P+4 for Maris Piper can be achieved when usingSR1 at 2.5 % with Amcor microperforated film.

The picture belongs to the discolouration assessments in King Edward.More information:http://www.postharvest.biz/en/company/agricoat-natureseal-ltd/_id:49906,seccion:news,noticia:77118/


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CONSTRUCTIE BRUYNOOGHE

Bruggestraat 74B-8840 STADEN - BELGIUMPh.: +32-51 70 50 88Fax: +32-51 70 51 [email protected]

PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FRESH CARROTSGENERAL

Constructie Bruynooghe has a long term history in the supply of complete processlines for fresh carrots. In our range we can deliver lines or individual machines from 5 up to 25 tons per hour.Our machines are simple in operation and of the highest quality. In our latest developments we included new features and we adapt constantly our designs according our customers experience and advice. Our complete range can be designed in a flexible way and delivered at different sizes.

We are a family business with 45 experienced employees that are building processlines for vegetables since 1976. Based in the South-West of Belgium, we realise a turn-over of 8 million Euro and export worldwide. We keep our experience indoors and have proper trained salesmen, engineers, constructors and mounting crews. All machines are build in our modern equipped workshop where we are able to assemble complete lines, since we have big and high buildings.


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PRODUCTS

Our range of machines to process fresh ca-rrots:- dry or wet reception of carrots coming from the field in walking floor trucks, pivo-ting trailers or crates- boxtipper- even flow system- dry desander- conveyor- and elevatorbelt- cyclone- and boxdestoner- drumwasher - dry or submerged- separatingsystem floating objects- soakingtanks- wet buffertanks- weedremover - belt or rollers- rollergrader- gradingshaker- inspectionbelts and -rollertable- in-line hydrocooler- coolingtanks with big buffercapacity of the packable product- falling film coolingsystem- mechanical filtering - static or rotative- dry buffertanks of the packable product- hydraulic systems

Generally we can say the models vary on capacities from 5000 kg up to 15 T/h.Integration of optical sorters.Complete lines including gangways, stairs, electrical cabling and automation.

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COMPAC SORTING EQUIPMENT

11 Spring Street - P.O. Box 13516ONEHUNGA - AUCKLAND - NEW ZEALANDPh.: +64-9-634 0088Fax: +64-9-634 [email protected]

Compac Sorting Equipment manufactures high speed, high precision sorting equipment for fruit and vegetables.

Its permanent compromise with research and development, coupled with its desire to be your best international supplier of graders have turned Compac Sorting in the world leader of that industry.

Compac graders are high quality systems, reliable and easy to maintain; and its programs and technologies are developed according to each client´s needs. In this way, the Compac systems reach the highest levels of efficiency and processing, obtaining the best possible result for each crop.

Besides, Compac has a technical team and a network of agents all over the world.After sales support is considered of vital importance.

Products: graders for fruits and vegetables, sizers and sorters after types; single, double and multiple line graders, electronic retrofitters, classification systems using color and spots, NIR (near infrared) technologies, taste technologies, packaging systems and different solutions for packaging plants.

Selection and grading of white and pink washed potatoes

The efficiency of Compac solutions for washed potatoes is the reason of its success since 1997. Through the exact weighing systems of InVision 9000 of Compac, it is possible to clas-sify the crop after external quality, shape, size, colour and individual weight before manual classification comes to play.

Compac reachs a yield of 3.5 metric tons / hour (3.8 tons / hour in the USA).


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Grading system for onions

Working along the whole process with Compac technology, the final processing stageresults in bags with exact weights and uniform shapes, obtaining a final product with aunique quality, with onions showing an excellent external aspect.


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DeccoFor decades growers and packers have trusted DECCO with the fruit of their labor. And Decco has come through with the quality post harvest products, equipment and services, helping process countless billions of citrus, apples, stone fruits, potatoes and many others... treating each piece like it was the most important one ever grown.

Whether you are packing citrus, apples or other fruits and vegetables, the Decco post harvest solutions provides you with coatings, cleaners, sanitizers, fungicides, growth regulators and antiscald. In several countries Decco has also developed equipment solutions with teams of mechanical representatives available to assist you with your packing needs.

The Decco quality does not end with the product sale. We back all of our treatments with the most knowledgeable, most experienced technical service teams in the industry. We also provide assistance with residue analysis and monitoring of fungicide residues, tank concentrations and weight loss studies to spore assays, resistance management and IPM programs.

DECCO IBÉRICA POST COSECHA, S.A.U.Villa de Madrid, 54 - P.I. Fuente del Jarro46988 PATERNA (Valencia) - SPAINPh.: +34-961 344 011Fax: +34-961 321 [email protected]


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DOMCA, S.A.

Camino de Jayena, s/n18620 ALHENDÍN (Granada) - SPAINPh.: +34-958 576 486Fax: +34-958 576 [email protected]

Peeled potatoes processing plant

DOMOX BASE DMC

Product presentation (peeled potato, peacemeal, cutted or whole) is a relevant aspect that can improve consumption of such product.DOMOX BASE is an effective product against oxi-dation of peeled potatoes, extending noticeably the shelf life of the tubers.

The present report is based in the present conditions of the industry and on potato produc-tion in the area, and also on the technological traits of the produce and on its demand, focu-sing on a high quality product to be adapted to that demand system and its requests.

Potato varieties to be chosen

A determinant factor is the chosen potato variety (Solanum tuberosum L) to be used. Agreat number of potato varieties are available and their relevant traits are also verynumerous. Color and texture of the skin, color of the flesh, number of eyes, shape ofthe tuber, cooking characteristics, type of sprouts, aerial stems, productivity, precocityin sprouting, tuber growth and cropping season, resistance to disease, etc. But themost commonly used agronomic trait in order to establish potato varieties is theduration of the cropping cycle: extra-early, early, average length and late varieties.


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As a rule, the variety Agria is a convenient one to be used, because is rather resitant tooxidation. More than other varieties, like Monalisa, for instance. Though Mona Lisa iseasier to clean.

Temperature and storage time for potatoes

Fuente: P. Rouselle, Y. Robert, J.C. Crosnier. 1999

Description of peeled potato processing plant

Regrading process technology, following stages are to be considered:

- Supply and unloading of raw materials: It can be done in bulk or unloading using a hopper. It can also happen in crates, through special mechanisms designed for direct unloading. It is more convenient to unload directly at the processing plant, because it makes the storage procedure easier in case they are not sent directly to the processing lane. At the same time, the industrial facilities needed are more simple.- Storage of the raw material: the potatoes are stored in the cold chamber loaded in the same crates in which they were taken to the facility. They can also be directly processed. Ta-king into account the behavior of the potatoes under storage and possible losses during that time, it is decided to keep them in crates during its storage period.

- Peeling: Potatoes can be peeled using different procedures. Most commonly used are pro-cedures base on steaming, bleaching or abrasion. Abrasive peeling is done through contact of the tubers with rolls of silicon carbide, an abrasive material made of carbon and silicon.


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Advantages of these procedure is its low energy cost (it is made at room temperature), low investment required and good external appearance of the produce peeled in that way. The skin is gathered in two buckets and the water from the peeler is collected, filtered and 50 % of it recycled.

In the next step, the peeled potatoes are inspected on a conveyor belt, where a worker can remove damaged tubers or tuber parts. Those damaged units, and also not processed ones, are sold to the food industry as raw materials for mashed potatoes, soups and other proces-sed products. Resiudual water goes to the sewage system, after being freed from grease and mud.

- Fresh cut. Wet or dry industrial procedures can be applied at this manufacturing stage, de-pending on the raw material to be used. A soft wash, through water immersion, takes place at the beginning of the process, in order to get rid of peel and starch reminders from the surface of the potato slices. These procedure does not damage the raw material and does not involve the use of chemicals.The peeled potatoes go to a hopper and from the hopper to a variable speed vertical conveyor, that takes the input to a cutting machine. The cutter has stainless steel rotating blades that cut to pieces the potatoes moving below them. The blades give a clean cut, giving the potato slices a thickness of about 1.2 and 3.5 mm. After cutting, starch still present in the potato slices must be removed. The slices are submerged in water again, a soft washing procedure.

In order to recycle that water, it must be freed of starch. The water is gathered and filtered, and 50 % of it reused in the process. The starch is also collected.

- Drying: the potato slices are spread on a conveyor belt and the remaining water is taken away using a drying fan.

- Packaging: the finished product is packaged in flexible bags using a packaging weigher, either automatic or manual. Preferably under vacuum. Packaging material should be the right one for the product and also be accepted by the market.

- Storage and dispatch: For manufacturing and processing, an advanced technology should be used, in order to obtain a high quality product, competitive on both national and inter-national markets.

- Application of DOMOX BASE DMC. Due to its contents on antioxidants and preservatives, and also to its antimicrobial properties, it is possible to lengthen the conservation time of peeled potatoes and other vegetables. Up to 30 days, depending on storage conditions.

(Use 1.3 kg DOMOX BASE DMC in 100 liters water) With one immersion it is possible to pro-cess five times its weight oh potatoes or other vegetables.


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GRUPO GIRÓ

Jaume Ribó, 35-37, 1º B08911 BADALONA (Barcelona) - SPAINPh.: +34-933 841 011Fax: +34-933 899 [email protected] / www.giropack.com

Giró is a group of enterprises whose aim is to supply technology and advanced systems for the industry of packaging of fruits and vegetables, leading the development of modern distribution and creating value added along the supply chain.Today Giró is present in more tan 50 countries in the five continents and is the world leader in packaging of fruit and vegetables.

HD Printing, a step forward in printed materials

The HD, High Definition, printing technology is used by GIRO both in Girfilm printing and la-bel printing. It offers a big step forward in printed materials for horticultural packaging ma-nufacture.

HD main printing features are:- Higher definition: more dots per surface unit gives high precision images- Natural colours: images with greater realism- Better contrast: allow much better colour gradient and soft transitions.

HD technology by Giró offers images very close to the reality and highly fidelity with the ori-ginal graphics to enhance the packages.


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EJIDO CARTÓN, S.L.

Pol. Ind. La Redonda, 95 04700 EL EJIDO (Almería) - SPAIN Ph.: +34-950 580 712 Fax: +34-950 580 669 [email protected] www.ejidocarton.com

The products of Ejido Cartón are specially designed for pre-packaging, made of microcorrugated board – the picture shows one of many possibilities – or of moulded cellulose.

Punnets made of microcorrugated board are ecological vessesl 100 % recyclable, with large capacity, humidity resistant, versatile, that could be printed in high quality using a large range of colours that enables to convey messages to the consumer. It is also possible to use them in different forms of packaging. Heat sealed or horizontal flowpack, among those forms.

Packaging of agricultural products is our main market, but we also deliver to thepackaging industry. Packages with special shapes for any kind of fruit and vegetables are our main field of interest. We have more than 50 models, but we consider each client a special case, in order to provide a taylor made solution, if no one of our available options fit his/her their needs..

Carrots are worth

For carrots, as is the case with all products, adding value is the way to get a differentiated product, with option to better prices. It is a process that starts with the variety and is accom-panied in the remaining stages through good farming practices and careful postharvest handling.


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The finishing touch is the packaging, which function is not only to contain the product, but to focus on the content and add value through the aspect, information, keeping the fresh aspect, etc.

Ejido Carton is specialized in consumer packaging in microwave cardboard, with customi-zed design and high quality printing, based on PEFC and FSC certified cardboard, a packa-ging material that respects the environment.

Onion punnet with a personality

Onions are a rather common vegetable. Growers make an important effort to supplynew varieties according to the consumer´s needs: taste, season, color….in summary,product differentiation.

Correct packaging goes together with all these efforts, adding value to the product.Cardboard trays made by Ejido Cartón – like the one shown below -, can be mademore personal with all kinds of pictures or messages, printed in high quality colours.The trays are made with water resistant cardboard and environmentally friendly “Kraft”paper – whose raw material is obtained in sustainable woods, FSC and PEFC certified.

Vessels, trays and punnets….very useful and environmentally friendly, at the same time.http://www.poscosecha.com/es/empresas/ejido-cartonsl/_id:36627,seccion:catalogodeproductos,producto:9887/


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FAM N.V.

Neerveld 2 2550 KONTICH - BELGIUM Ph.: +32-(0)3-450 92 20Fax: +32-(0)3-450 92 [email protected]

FAM and Stumabo are specialized in precision cutting of food products. Both companies are integrated in the Hiffermann Group.

FAM develops and manufactures precision cutters for the food industry. More tan 50 years of innovation and work in the industry speak for us. Presently we are leading the European market. We command an extended net of dealers and spare parts suppliers that allow us to support our customers all around the world.

Stumabo leads in precision blades for industrial food processing machines. The company has more than 60 years of experience and sells each year more than 1.2 million blades for industrial cutters. Stumabo offers blades made of stainless steel for uses where hygiene and cut quality are of utmost importance.

The company has dealers in France, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.

Stumabo, leading the market of precision blades

Stumabo offers longlasting blades, made of very special kinds of steel.

Some special blades are used by manufacturers of potato peeling machines. Stumabo has also designed special blades for cutting and peeling of onions.

All Stumabo blades are made of specially selected stainless steel.


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FAM Centris® 315, a Brand New Centrifugal Slicer / Shredder, for small to mid-sized companies

FAM has developed the innovative FAM Centris® 315, a new centrifugal slicer & shredder with a high-quality execution. The machine is very compact and has the smallest footprint of any industrial centrifugal shredder in the market.

A patent pending cutting head technology guarantees a consistent slice and shred thick-ness throughout the slicing process. The unique design of the cutting head (*) will facilitate change of blades, handling and cleaning.

The product can be cut into a variety of shapes. Both slices (flat cut, crinkle cut and V-sha-ped ) and strips ( V-shaped , oval, julienne and wide ribbon-cut ) are available on a wide ran-ge of products.

The machine, its cutting head(s), knives and parts are all offered at a very competitive price.

The Centrifugal Slicing and Shredding Principle improved by FAMA number of new patents and innovations lead to improved ways of centrifugal slicing and shredding.

FAM ILC.2, a flexible, high capacity cutter for dices and other shapes

The FAM ILC.2 is a versatile and accurate high-capacity food dicing machine. It can easily be integrated into a production line because of its compact design. This heavyduty machine is available in different executions for e.g. French fries, tomatoes and curly kale.

http://www.fam.be/en/mach/9The applications of the of the FAM ILC.2 cutter cover slicing in dices, slices and strips, accor-ding to the different kinds of fruits to be processed: apricots, cherries, strawberries, pome-granates, green mangos, apples, different kinds of peaches, quince, oranges, papaya, pears, pineapples, watermelons, coconuts….

http://www.fam.be/en/mach/9

Among vegetables, the machine works with sweet potatoes, potatoes, celery, aubergine, courgette, pumpkins, onions, mushrooms, chicory, different kinds of cabbage, cauliflower, endives, green beans, turnip, cucumber, peppers, leek, radish, beets, tomatoes, carrots…


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The FAM Mantis.2, slice cross cutter, with V-belt, is designed for precise cutting of elongate and oblong products

The FAM Mantis.2 is a cross cutter with V- conveyor belts, highly flexible, hygienic, used to cut a wide range of vegetables and fruits. It cuts any product with a firm texture to 115 mm in diameter, and compressible leafy vegetables to 160 mm in diameter. It also specializes in cutting potatoes for spicy potatoes, potatoes in slices, and potatoes in halves. It also realizes straight or wavy cuts.

http://www.fam.be/en/mach/274The capacity of the FAM Mantis.2 varies between 500 and 6000 kg per hour depending on the product and form of feeding. The FAM Mantis.2 is the first cutter with touch screen and PLC, allowing easy storage and retrieval of production data and cutting programs.

The FAM Mantis.2 has a good reputation for its safe and accurate operation, even in harsh factory conditions, and the hygienic design makes it very suitable for various food sectors.


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INGENIERÍA PRODOL, S.A.

Ruta 25 a 1,6 km Panamericana hacia Matheu B1625BZP BELÉN DE ESCOBAR (BS.AS.) - ARGENTINAPh.: +54-348 4420175Fax: +54-348 [email protected]

Ingeniería Prodol develops packaging lines for fruit and vegetables.

In 1988 it developed the first electronic size sorter by weight. Afterwards newimprovements and installations were build in more than 135 countries: Australia, Spain, Portugal, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panamá, Brazil and Chile. Including smart chain electronic sizers.

In 1999, Ingeniería Prodol starts the marketing of the sorting system by weight andcolor, taking a step forward against competitors and obtaining a clear mprovement in export conditions. Presently, the company also works in internal quality.

Processing lines for garlic and onions

Prodol´s garlic and onions processing lines have a Smart chain electronic sizer designed for those products. It is a high precision piece of equipment. The result is a line with a high pro-duction capacity and a very low operational cost. The classified product is packed automati-cally with crate or bag fillers.

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Fomesa FruitechFOMESA FRUITECH, S.L., is a world-leading Group in post-harvest treatments of fruit and vegetables. Their commitment goes beyond the sale of our products. We also offer professional advice in various fields, such as diseases and pathologies caused by pathogen agents, the application of authorised products for post-harvest treatments for different varieties of fruit, degreening, as well as systems and treatments for cold storage of fruit and vegetables. Technical Assistance.

FOMESA FRUITECH manufactures postharvest chemicals for fruits and vegetables. Waxes, fungicides, disinfectants, detergents and the range of smoke cans “Fruitfog”, with fungicide and disinfectant formulations for application in cold rooms and transport. Automatic control equipment for cold rooms.

FOMESA FRUITECH, S.L.Camí del Racó, 10 - Pol. Ind. Norte46469 BENIPARRELL (Valencia) - ESPAÑAPh.: +34 96 121 18 62Fax: +34-96 121 41 [email protected]


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FORIGO ROTERITALIA

Via Brennero Nord, 946035 OSTIGLIA (Mantova) - ITALIAPh.: +39-0386-32691 / Fax: +39-0386-31250www.forigo.it

Roter Italia is a young and dynamic company still led and managed by Forigo brothers and family. More than 80% of the turnover is given by the export in the whole Europe, North, Central and South America, North and South Africa, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

The most important feature – especially for the horticultural sector – is the attention paid to the specific needs of the market with a tight focus on the final user, providing “tailored” solutions to satisfy the requests of this highly specialized and performing field.

Nowadays the horticultural world considers the brand Forigo - Roter Italia as a leader of the innovation and development in the manufacturing of machinery for soil preparation and sterilization before seeding or transplanting, thanks to an efficient and skilled technical staff.

Our range is divided into two main product lines. The first line for traditional agriculture is made by power harrows, rotary tillers, universal shredders for grass and pruning and straw choppers for crop residues (i.e. corn, rice, wheat stubbles etc.). The second line includes horticultural machines i.e. stone buriers, bed formers, sterilizers for the distribution of solid or liquid fumigating products and other special machines for gardening, landscaping and soil renovation.


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The Mix Tiller Dry

- Specific machine specialized in distribu-tion of micro-grains (Basamid or Dazomet) and granular products.- Mechanical batcher and pneumatic sorter (Venturi System) projected to work with micro-grains and granular products.- The machine has the Possibility of modi-fying the rate during the work progress.- Its distributors located before the rotor of the stones burier (mixing in all the worked soil).


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FTNON – FOOD TECHNOLOGY NOORD-OOST NEDERLAND B.V.

Bedrijvenpark Twente 207602 KA ALMELO - SPAINPh.: +31-546-574 222Fax: +31-546-574 [email protected]

FTNON – Processing equipment for fresh salads, herbs, aromatics, fruits, vegetables, potatoes, mushrooms etc.: pre-process, slice, wash, dry, mix, blanch, cover, chill, decontaminate, clean, package.

Versatile solutions for potato based products

FTNON has a deep knowledge and large experience, especially obtaining better qualityand yields, low residues and cost efficiency in all steps of the processes.

Energy efficient steaming, blanching and cooking

Steam cookers, screw or tape conveying, using the Dynamic Cloud Control System (DCC Sys-tem). Even quality and energy savings between 30 and 40 % are obtained.


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Blanching systems with screw and belt conveyors

Blanching with energy efficient systems and a constant product flow.

Cooling systems with belt and screw conveyors for fried potatoes and other potato based products

Efficient flow through the product, resulting in better heat removing and more efficient use of cold water.

Excellent de-stoning

Obtaining a safer process and less weight in the subsequent production stages.

For each kind of contamination, the best cleaning method available

The FTNON drum cleaning systems clean all potatoes perfectly well.


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GREEFA

Langstraat, 12 - 4196 JB Tricht P.O. Box 24 - 4190 CA GELDERMALSEN - THE NETHERLNDSPh.: +31-(0)345-57 81 00Fax: +31-(0)345-57 82 [email protected]

Greefa has specialized in research and design of high-tech sorting equipment for fruit, vegetables and potatoes for over 60 years. The company is active through a worldwide dealer network in more than 40 countries, giving the highest priority to an efficient after sales service.

We collaborate closely with our clients and constantly analyse the changing market needs. This enables our customers to supply the right quality of fruit in a homogenous presentation.

The large number of patented machines has given GREEFA a prominent position in the market. Our unique modular system allows you to compose a sorting machine that is tailored to suit your actual needs.

It also offers you the opportunity to extend your machine later on, by simply adding one or more sorting modules.

What is unique about Greefa

- Flexible, tailor-made sorting solutions ensuring accurate results and high efficiency

- Gentle handling of your delicate fruits is our priority

- Robust and reliable machines which do not require much maintenance

- After sales service support available through our worldwide dealer network

- Special software, Windows based, for user-friendly easy to handle operation

- Apart from intelligent chain roller sizers and cup sizers Greefa offers the high end GeoSort and SmartSort sizers with the unique Greefa patented transfer system


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Sorting modules available on Greefa machines

- Sorting by size (multiple measurement system with infra-red camera)

- Sorting by weight with 3-point weighing system

- Colour sorting with CCD cameras and special software

- External quality sorting iQS which takes up to 60 photos of each fruit

- Non-destructive internal quality sorting iFA (internal flavour analyser)

- See our website for the other models of machines which Greefa offers

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INGEMAQ

Ruta 60, km. 22QUILLOTA - CHILE Ph.: +56-33-2-314 924 [email protected]

INGEMAQ-SAIM®, is an engineering company established in Quillota in 1995, dedicated to design, fabrication and sales of industrial and agroindustrial machinery.

The implementation of complete lines for the selection, grading and conditioning of whole fresh products for the agroindustry and of machinery and equipment for the food industry guarantees quality, efficiency, dependability and sound technology of our products.

Grader for onions and other round products

The grader for onions and other fruits and vegetables is a machine designed according to each customer´s needs. Ingemaq designs and supplies equipment with production capaci-ties between 1.500 and 20.000 kg/h. The type of grading net is chosen according to product and variety. They are made of galvanized steel, with clasps made of stainless steel.


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Grader for carrots, lemons and potatoes

The Ingemaq graders used for carrots, lemons and potatoes are pieces of equipment desig-ned and developed to classify round, semi-elongated or elongated products with irregular shapes according to their size. Sizes and grading outlets are chosen according to each client´s needs.

String crate dumpers

The string crates dumper of Inquemaq measures 1300 x 1300 x 3000; it is filled at floor level and unloads at 900 mm. The dumping system works with galvanized steel wires of Ø3/8”.


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INTERSEMILLAS

Pol. Ind. de Loriguilla - Calle Nº2, esquina con Calle Nº546393 LORIGUILLA (Valencia) - SPAINPh.: +34-96 164 01 01Fax: +34-96 166 84 [email protected]

INTERSEMILLAS was created 30 years ago in Valencia, a region of Spain with strong agricultural traditions and with the aim of producing and trading seeds.From the beginning of the company we began developing a selection of vegetable materials which enables us to produce varieties of interest to the agricultural market, and so becoming consolidated as one of the major national seed-producing companies.

INTERSEMILLAS is a young and dynamic company which is directed towards offering the most efficient and productive service to its customers, with seeds which are highly resistant to sickness and plagues.

Expertise: producing vegetable seeds

We have a very large variety of species now available for professional use. We are strong mainly in onions, watermelons, broccoli and processing tomatoes. Our varieties are supplied by INTERSEMILLAS’s own production in Spain and supplemented by hybrid varieties obtained from both Spain and breeders worldwide.

Commitment: Quality

All our seeds are required to undergo rigorous trials to attain the optimum physiological and genetic quality of each commercial batch. In this way we can guarantee the purity and uniformity of our hybrids.

Research and Development

We are constantly conducting research in order to improve the quality and variety of our products.


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IntersemillasRADISH R-10035 F1 - Red round radish

Hybrid variety of red round radish. Per-fectly round root of deep red colour, clean and shiny, completely white flesh. It is very sweet and doesn’t burst. The plant has me-dium vigor. Intensive production is there-fore recommended, even in seedbed whe-re it offer exceptional uniformity.

RED MOON F1 - Red hybrid onion of short day

On the Mediterranean coast it is sown at the end of September and harvested at the beginning of June. It is noted for its high production of large bulbs with pear shape, slightly flattened, and intense red colour in all its layers. It endures well bolting, still in early sowing.

SPRING STAR F1 - Yellow hybrid onion of short day. Extra early variety

It is suitable for spring onions and dry bulbs. Spherical shape, half flattened, uni-form caliber. Medium yellow external co-lour and yellowish white internal colour. Short storage period and delicate and mild flavor, very high production. Tolerance to bolting. On the Mediterranean coast it is sown in September for harvesting early April.


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AGRO-TECHNOLOGIE

Zone industrielle76440 FORGES LES EAUX - FRANCE Ph.: +33-(0)2-35 09 20 35 Fax: +33-(0)9-72 26 19 [email protected]

Designer and manufacturer of quality control devices for food: Fruits and vegetables, cheese, meat and alive animals, yeast, mushrooms, fishes.Scientific instruments for manufacturers, retailers, distributors, universities and research centers. Direct sales worldwide.

AGROSTA®100Touchscreen

The latest innovation from the creators of the “DUROFEL” connected to a tactile console with 32GB memory, the AGROSTA®100Touchscreen measures the firmness of soft-skinned and soft fruit. It stores and analyses a huge amount of data.It is the most technologically advanced instrument on the market to measure fruit and soft and semi-hard materials.


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MARRODAN, S.A.

Polígono Industrial Los Cabezos - Ctra. de Mendavia s/n31580 LODOSA (Navarra) - SPAINPh.: +34-948 693 142 / Fax: +34-948 693 [email protected]

MARRODAN has more than 65 years of experience manufacturing machinery for the food processing industry specializing in the areas of vegetables, refrigeration and dehydration of products, canned fish, and precooked meals, ready to eat product, meals and sauces. During the last years MARRODAN also started to provide processing lines for minimally processed products (IV range).MARRODAN is based in a main area of the Spanish food processing industry and works worldwide. MARRODAN also counts on a pilot plant for the development of new products.

Processing linesLines for preparation of minimally processed products (IV Range); Canning lines for tin, glass, flexible packaging, etc.; Lines for processing frozen foods; Lines for dehydrating vegetables; Complete lines for the production and processing of compost for growing mushrooms, etc.

EquipmentCleaning systems, silos, peeling, elimination of skins/peel, cutting (slices, strips, cubes). Equipment for concentrating, drying, packaging, grading, to cool the preparation of syrup for canning. Product transport (fruit and packaging, etc.). Washing machines, dryers, pallet cage, palletising of packages. Vectro, a modern sterilisation systems (under pressure and atmospheric) that mantains the quality of the products.

Technical AssistanceService, based on the repair and maintenance of machines, both in and out of our installations.

The VECTOR range of retorts is a system designed for pressure sterilizing of preser-ved vegetables, fish and meats; children meals, ready cooked dishes, etc.


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MAF RODA AGROBOTIC

Impasse d’AthènesZAC Albasud II - BP 6011282001 MONTAUBAN - FRANCIA Ph.: +33-5-63 63 27 70Fax: +33-5-63 63 07 85 [email protected]

The MAF RODA GROUP, a world leader, specializes in design and manufacturing of grading, palletizing, conditioning and handling equipment for fruit and vegetables.

We offer our customers high quality equipment, investing 3 % of our yearly revenue in research and development, in order to be updated with the needs of our markets.

Our success story started in 1905. Today, the MAF RODA Group has 18 subsidiaries and 45 agents in the world, a workforce with more than 900 persons and complete control of its installations.

Products: Weighing and prepackaging machinery and for displaying fruit and vegetables at the point of sale. Complete equipment for the handling of fruit and vegetables: depalletizers, dumpers, stackers of pallets and boxes, baling machines, screening and processing lines; colour, diameter, quality and/or weight electronic graders; weight packagers, palletizers, packing lines, strappers, fruit conveyors, batch managers.

Trade mark: MAF Roda Agrobotic ®.

Oneway II - 114, for products between 40 y 120 mm in length

The grader Oneway II, of Maf Roda, is designed to grade fruits and vegetables with lengths between 40 y 120 mm, such as potatoes, apples, pears, tomatoes, kiwis, avocados, garlics, etc. It has the possibility of dumping the trays on both directions.

Other characteristics of Oneway II include:- High speed: 600 trays/minute/working line- Simple and reliable mechanics- Easy maintenance- It can feed more tan one prepackaging machine, like net, punnet or bag fillers.- Also optical analysis. Colour, diameter and spectroscopic analysis in the nearinfrared range for sugars. (NIR).


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The range of Oneway graders includes equipment with different capabilities.

Pomone Universal

Pomone Universal optimizes the process results according to the grader´s outlets.It adapts to different selection criteria: colour, diameter, density, shape coefficient, quality, sugar contents index, consistency, labelling, traceability, yield of the packaging machines.


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TomraSENSOR BASED SORTING AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FRESH AND PROCESSED FOOD INDUSTRIES

TOMRA Sorting Solutions has unified two champions, ODENBERG and BEST, to become undoubtedly the preferred supplier for the food market’s sensor-based sorting and peeling needs. ODENBERG and BEST have created an invincible alliance when it comes to delivering sorting, safety and quality solutions throughout the process chain, as well as solutions for peeling, process analytics and chilling & freezing.

TOMRA Sorting Solutions now has more than 6,500 machines installed worldwide in the food market. Customers are reassured by the company’s even more comprehensive support and service network, close to its customers. TOMRA Sorting Solutions now offers a wider segment of application coverage and expertise, as well as boasting the leading sector experts and knowledge in research and development. This will enable the company to continue producing efficient, reliable state-of-the-art and customized solutions. In addition, the company has eight test and demonstration centers worldwide, where customers can trial their own products.

TOMRA Sorting Solutions can offer a complete sorting solution for different industries; one example is the potato industry, where we propose solutions in different positions in the process line. We offer a holistic approach maximizing yield and efficiency; collecting real-time information from the farm to the end of a French fry line. We provide high quality equipment to optimize the production flow, resulting in consistent high quality final consumer product.

TOMRA SORTING SOLUTIONSResearch Park Haasrode 1622, Romeinse Straat 203001 Leuven - BÉLGICAPh.: +32-16 396396Fax: +32-16 [email protected]/food


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T.R. TuroniFor over thirty years T.R. Company has satisfied the needs of all who are involved in fruit-growing, horticulture and floriculture, by manufacturing analysis, control and measurement instruments which have become well-established in the Italian and foreign markets, thanks to their precision and reliability.

The T.R. Company offers a complete range of instruments helping the customer in all phases of agricultural production: Instruments for the analysis of the chemical-physical characteristics of soil and water such as pHmeter (acidity), conductivity-meter (salinity), soil moisture meter, etc; Meteorological instruments such as thermometers, hygrometers, electronic frost indicators, anemometers, pluviometers, etc; Harvest control instruments such as refractometers for reading the sugar concentration, fruit pressure tester to detect proper picking ripeness and control fruit softening during cold storage, etc.; Control instruments for the preservation and transport of goods both in refrigerators and in refrigerating trucks such as high-precision thermometers, hygrometers, psychrometers, thermographs, etc.

T.R. TURONI S.R.L.Via Copernico 2647122 FORLI (FO) - ITALYPh.: +39-0543-724848Fax: [email protected]


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ULMA PACKAGING, S. COOP.

Barrio Garibai, 28 - P.O. Box 14520560 OÑATI (Guipúzcoa) - SPAINPh.: +34-943 739 200Fax: +34-943 780 [email protected]

ULMA Packaging, S. Coop., Packaging solutions

With more than 50 years of experience and a team of high qualified professionals, as well as the most advanced design and manufacturing technologies, ULMA offers extensive and in-novative solutions in packaging equipment and systems with a main objective: providing additional value to its customersULMA Packaging is currently focused on a wide variety of markets, including machinery, in-tegral solutions and inputs; which it addresses through its eight product lines: Flow Pack, Thermoforming, Traysealing, Vertical, Dairypack, Shrink Wrap, Stretch Film and Sleeve Wrap-ping.

4 potatoes packaging in gusseted pack with laminated film

The 4 potatoes packaging in gusseted pack, by ULMA PACKAGING, used laminated film. It is a high speed packaging, by a continuous motion machine at 100 pack/min.

The machine is a VTC 700, a vertical packaging machine (VFFS) which makes a three sealing pack. Designed for continuous packing at high production speeds up to 140 cycles/min.


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Carrot packaging in traysealing in rigid trays

The packaging in traysealing allows an attractive printing of the sealing film, on top of a ri-gid tray containing the carrots.

The machine used is a Scorpius 400, by ULMA PACKAGING. It is an automatic single line tray-sealing machine for all kind of preformed regular trays.

Can make modified atmosphere (MAP) and vacuum packing.

Tray transport system with arms.

Suitable for first steps in integrated process automation.

Cutted carrot, … and a range of other vegetables minimally processed

The cutted carrot and a list of different minimally processed vegetables are packed by a ver-tical machine (VFFS).

Formats with an average useful life of 10 days, which can be longer by MAP, modified atmos-phere packaging.

The VTI 200 is a vertical packaging machine (VFFS), by ULMA PACKAGING, which makes a three sealing pack. Medium production speed performance up to 70 cycles/minute with an excellent quality/price ratio.


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VisarELECTRONIC SORTING SYSTEMS - SORTOP CARROT

VISAR EUROPE is active in the agri-food industrial field having designed an automatic carrot sorting machine: the Sortop Carrot system. Our electronic carrot sorter sorts, grades and weighs with the highest efficiency in the market!

The accuracy of this system means that it is the only one capable of efficiently sorting any type of carrot, whatever the quality of the batch. Not only will you find fewer rejected carrots, but you will gain in the long term because of the consistency of the system, not to mention the elimination of labour costs!

Sortop Carrot is a response to market requirements in offering a reliable and economically profitable system.

VISAR EUROPELa Tuilière 81047 Oppens - SWITZERLANDPh.: +41-(0)21 887 03 01Fax: +41-(0)21 887 70 [email protected]


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WymaWYMA designs, manufactures, distributes and services post-harvest vegetable handling equipment and solutions worldwide. When you buy Wyma, you buy proven technical quality as well as a deep understanding of post-harvest handling.

From consultation through to design, manufacture, installation and support; you know that with Wyma, you get the benefit of our fresh thinking culture wherever you are in the world.

WYMA ENGINEERING (NZ) LTD.27 Foremans Road - PO Box 16-707HORNBY - CHRISTCHURCH - NUEVA ZELANDAPh.: +64 3 344 6403Fax: +64 3 344 [email protected]

Whether your pack-house handles, potatoes, carrots, onions or other bulk vegetables, our fresh thinking is always available to help you keep improving the way you handle and process your vegetables.


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Dutch Firm Kiremko Enters India’s Crowded Potato Chips Market

Saturday 14 June 2014 - New installa-tions in Fryo Foods

KIREMKO B.V., the Netherlands, a leading Dutch food processing equipment firm, has entered the crowded segment of pota-to chips in India by supplying the potato chips line to Fryo Foods Pvt. Ltd., a 45 years old potato producing firm, by installing a state of the art potato chips manufacturing line in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. First of its kind in the region, the potato processing line is now ready to be fully operational for industrial use. The capacity of the proces-sing line is 500 kg potato chips per hour output.

The raw material for this line is primarily potatoes along with edible oil for frying with salts and flavours. Special varieties of potatoes are required for the production of high quality of chips. The state of Uttar Pra-desh, where this line has been installed by Fryo Foods, stands 9th in the world in terms of potato production individually. The line is located in Meerut, 65 km from New Delhi at Mohkampur Industrial Area in the state of Uttar Pradesh. This business to business cooperation between these two companies compliments the long standing bilateral cooperation between In-dia and the Netherlands, a release from the embassy of Netherlands said.

As the third largest producer of potatoes, India holds enormous potential for proces-sing the root vegetable. On one hand it seeks to increase potatoes per capita con-

sumption in the country and on the other it will help reduce waste and assist in pro-fessionalization of the entire potato indus-try. Fryo Foods Pvt. Ltd. and its Managing Director Sunil Kumar have been pioneers of the modern potato industry in India. Ha-ving been in the industry for more than 45 years, the Fryo Foods family has been the forerunners in adopting modern and im-proved technologies for the potato indus-try such as improved seeds, CIPC, leno bags for packing etc. Mr Sunil Kumar has also been one of the most important advo-cates of the modernization of the Indian potato industry with more than 100 tech-nical papers nationally to his name.

Kiremko B.V. is one of the most important worldwide players in the market for food processing equipment. Kiremko is the lea-ding Dutch company in agro-food industry worldwide since 1965. The company is de-dicated to the design, manufacture and installation of industrial potato processing equipments.

The Netherlands is one of the world’s lar-gest exporters of agricultural and food products, thanks to its innovative agro-food technology. The agri-business is one of the driving forces behind the Dutch eco-nomy.The bilateral trade in agriculture commodities between India and the Netherlands is expected to touch a volume of EUR 1 billion in the coming years. This is part of a joint work plan on agricultural cooperation 2011-2015 which was signed between India and the Netherlands.

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the potato processing line on 14th June. The Ambassador has been accompanied by Mr Wouter Verhey, Counsellor for Agri-culture, Embassy of the Netherlands, India. Mr Paul Oosterlaken, Director Kiremko B.V was also present at the occasion.

The event has been chaired by Mr J.P. Mee-na, Additional Secretary, MOFPI, Govt Of India.Other important dignitaries, like Mr Bald-win Jappe Alberts, Mr G. Bhujbal, Econo-mic Adviser, , MOFPI, Govt Of India, Ms Bhawana Vishvanath, Country Director (In-dia) Kiremko B.V, Mr. Ravindra, NAFTC – In-dia and senior officials from the govern-ment of Uttar Pradesh.

The optimum storage condition for garlic seed-bulb, ambient tempe-rature

S. Harper, and Hall, Z., IHC 2014

A trial was initiate to evaluate the effects of garlic seed-bulb storage temperature on subsequent crop growth at 2 plantings (early 21 March 2013 and late 29 April 2013).

To assess the optimum storage conditions for garlic planting material whole bulbs (cv. Glenlarge) were stored at 5ºC, 15ºC and ambient conditions.

A further treatment where bulbs were either heat treated or not heat treated was imposed in factorial combination with the storage temperature treatments to give 6 treatments each replicated 4 times. The heat treatment was imposed 43 days prior to planting and included 7 days at 32ºC, 14 days at 36ºC and 21 days at 38ºC.

The planting material was grown under field conditions to maturity and assessed for total plant number and bulb yield.

In the both plantings the optimum storage condition was ambient temperature fo-llowed by storage at 15ºC.

Heat treating bulbs provided minor but positive increases in yield in both ambient and 15ºC storage conditions.

Cold storage (5ºC) minus heat treatment was an unsuccessful storage option with plants maturing rapidly and producing only one to two cloves per bulb before se-nescing. Heat treatment of cold stored gar-lic produced yields comparable to garlic stored at 15ºC in the first planting but in second planting heat treatment did not re-verse the negative effects of cold storage.

Original title and sourcesEFFECTS OF SEED-BULB STORAGE TEMPE-RATURE ON GARLIC GROWTHHarper, S1, Hall, [email protected] of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Gatton Research Facility, Queens-land, AustraliaIHC 2014, International Horticulture Con-gress, 17-22 August 2014, Brisbanehttp://www.ihc2014.org/

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The new Slitmaster SLL

Cuts even better

The Slitmaster cuttingmachine, by Marce-lissen, www.marcelissen.nl, is allready for many years the leader in potato cutting. Even though we managed to improve this machine. It’s now completely constructed out of Stainless steel and cuts even better. Yet it will keep cutting the potatoes in the length for the optimal yield. Due to the im-provements we have less breaking, higher capacity, bigger range knives, easier to clean, fully stainless steel and fully CE.

Sortex A

Superior detection of subtle colours and foreign material

Sortex A, by Buhler, www.buhlergroup.com, is the ultimate sorting solution for processors with difficult sorting require-

ments. Breaking the mould - featuring Bühler’s most sophisticated and versatile sorting capabilities, the innovative SORTEX A range is the first choice for processors with the most challenging sorting applica-tions.

Showcasing Bühler innovation with new advanced inspection and lighting systems, this state-of-the-art technology has a su-perior detection of subtle colours and fore-ign material.

The SORTEX A range delivers an extraordi-nary performance for difficult applications such as reducing toxins from Grains, Seeds, Nuts, Coffee and other commodities as well as providing the finest quality end product to increase profitability.

This SORTEX A range has been designed to meet the highly demanding standards of food safety and quality, and for non-food industries, to deliver maximum product purity for best value.

The SORTEX A range benefits:- Empowering sorting performance- Ensuring consistent operation- Optimising productivity, lowering cost of ownership

Designed to suit all capacity requirements, the SORTEX A range is available from one to five modules in three frames sizes.


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Falcon

Pre-sorter for the Fresh Cut Industry

The Falcon sorter, by TOMRA, http://www.tomra.nl, processes high volumes, tailored to our customers’ business. The Falcon re-moves unwanted material brought into the production line from the field (droppings, rodents, bugs, plastic, wood, soil clumps, stones …).

Glide

Less waste, higher output for fries

The process of optical sorting fries involves waste products. The goal is to keep this percentage as low as possible. OptiServe has developed a shrewd cutting system which will increase output. And reduce waste to a bare minimum. Discover what the Glide has to offer.

Curious as to how quickly the Glide pays off? Just fill in the Calculation Chart on www.optiserve.nl

Controlled oscillation grader

The new NOBLE, www.noble.fr, grader with controlled oscillation is adapted to all si-tuations encountered in the Potato sizing.

It is EFFICIENT and PRECISE even in the most difficult cases such as the sizing of long varieties and or Potato Seed. It does not wound potatoes thanks to its exclusive grids cleaning system and its balanced os-cillation. It is PRACTICAL because its grids laid out one after the other can be chan-ged by the top.

Available in many widths and numbers of grids, there is a model for each need. It can be equipped with different models of square screens according to the applica-tions.


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The future of polishing is coming: New Wyma Vege-Polisher in Potato Expo and Fruit Logistica

Potato Expo, Florida, USA; Fruit Logisti-ca, Berlin, Germany

WYMA, http://www.wymasolutions.com, is proud to present a Vege-Polisher that is smarter, easier to maintain and more hy-gienic than ever before. Twenty years of re-finement and insightful customer fee-dback, combined with Wyma’s internal dri-ve to develop innovative leading technolo-gies, have led to the redesign of the Vege-Polisher. In 1994, the Vege-Polisher journey began with a simple need to lighten the manual workload of a local potato farmer. The search for improvements has never ceased.

The new Wyma Vege-Polisher offers smart and automated operation, controllable via a touch screen. The touch screen is on a cantilever swing arm, eliminating the need for loose cables around the machine. Re-mote control via smart phones, tablets or desktop is possible.

The automation software provides drive load feedback, with the user able to set their own optimal torque settings to main-tain a consistent level of polish. Favourite settings can be saved for a variety of pro-duce types and conditions for quick touch-of-a-button changeover between produce batches. Other automation aspects include data logging (running hours, water usage etc...), service and cleaning reminders, au-tomatic brush reversal and rinse cycles to prolong the life of the bristles, and connec-tivity to Wyma After-Sales for online servi-

ce and technical assistance.

The side doors and drive guards have been completely re-designed to provide full ac-cess without the need for tools, reducing cleaning and maintenance time. The side doors are two-leafed folding doors, hinged horizontally. They provide unobstructed access along the full length of the drum and brush shafts. The doors are dual-de-pendent and rise and lower vertically. They have a 180 degree positioning angle, gi-ving complete access to the door’s internal surface area for cleaning. They also have a unique slam guard mechanism which en-sures the doors stay in any open position they are left in.

At the in-feed and out-feed ends, the end guards are on hinged cantilevers to provi-de quick and easy access for maintenance without the need for tools. The top end guard lifts vertically while the two side guards open out and can be folded back against the side of the machine to minimi-se obstruction.

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main features is a partitioned wash zone around the brushes, isolating the drive, belt and electrical zones. This partitioned wash zone reduces the amount of waste at out-feed and in-feed ends, and minimises waste and water from penetrating into the drive areas.

The side doors have been re-shaped to re-move catch points and other risks for was-te accumulation. Consequently, the inside of the wash zone can be easily washed down and debris is guided to the catch-ment tray or recycle base underneath the machine.

The spray bars are now positioned external to the drum to minimise debris both on and inside the spray bars. This can be sup-ported by a fresh water spray purge upgra-de to easily flush excess dirt out of the pi-ping. There are two fresh water nozzles at the out-feed end to provide a final rinse of the produce prior to further processing. An optional soak nozzle is placed at in-feed to provide extra water lubrication and remo-ve excess soil on entry.

Numerous other improvements will be re-vealed at global trade shows in early 2015. Wyma’s American customers will have the opportunity to view the new Vege-Polisher at Potato Expo in Florida, 7 to 9 January 2015, whereas European customers will be seeing the machine at Fruit Logistica, Ber-lin, 4 to 6 February.

The pictures schow:1 - WYMA Vege Polisher general view2 - Control panel3 - Platform4 - Wash zone

Onion spraying of fungicides espe-cially at 80 days after sowing found to minimise Colletotrichum circi-nans infection carried to storage

R.K. Mesta, L. Kukanur

Onion is one of the important vegetable crops of India. In Karnataka state, onion farmers are facing severe postharvest los-ses due to infection of Colletotrichum circi-nans. The bulbs get infected in field and start rotting when carried to the storage units for drying.

Since the infection is from field fungus which infects just prior to harvest and ag-gravate disease during storage, an experi-ment was conducted at the Horticulture Research Station Devihosur, Haveri, India, to minimize the losses in onion due to pre- and postharvest smudge by practicing fun-gicidal spray in the field before harvest.

Seven different fungicides were tried to manage the disease.

The results revealed that spraying of hexa-conazole (0.1%), difenconazole (0.1%) and kresoxim methyl (0.1%) have given best control of the disease in field as well as in storage. Normally onions are given fungici-dal sprays at 30 and 60 days after sowing.

However, in the present study it was found that spraying fungicides at 40, 60 and 80 days after sowing were found effective. As onion is normally harvested after 90 days of sowing, spraying of fungicides especia-lly at 80 days after sowing found to mini-mise infection carried to storage which in-tern recorded significantly least smudge in storage.


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SourcesMesta, R.K. and Kukanur, L. 2013. MANAGE-MENT OF POSTHARVEST SMUDGE INFEC-TIONS IN ONION THROUGH FUNGICIDES . Acta Hort. (ISHS) 1012:627-632

The picture is by plantwise.org

New TECNOCEAM Vegetable Processing Lines in PORTUGAL

Adult salad line, Potato line, Onion and garlic line

3 New Complete Lines supplied on Turn the Key basis in North Portugal (Oporto) was started up with very satisfactory re-sults by SYSFEN, Tecnoceam’s Representati-ve in Portugal (Picture 1).

The New TECNOCEAM Facilities supplied to CALCOB includes:- Adult Salad Line- Potato Line- Onion and Garlic Line- Packaging Machineryand shall allow CALCOB to enter into Fresh processed vegetables market with new products.

Salad LineThe Salad Line is very flexible and compact and it can process Adults Salad and Baby Leaf with good rate, 600 kg/hour (2nd. Pic-ture).

The Salad Line is provided of:Preparation belt, Gently Blade Cutter, PreWasher, Washer, Automatic Centrifu-guese Dryer, and 14 MultiHead Packer.

Potato LineThe Potato Line was designed to process 1000 kg/hour of raw potatoes up to the va-cuum bag (whole peeled potatoes or dice or french fries cut).

The line includes Destoner Tank, Rotating Washer, Abrasive Peeler, Dicer, Sanitazion Tanks, and Vertical Packer (bag size range: 0,5 – 5 kg).

The line is very compact and requires only 4 people working in the line. The 3rd and 4th pictures show the potatoes after the washer, and one of the final products (more pictures in the attached document, below).


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Onion & Garlic LineThe Onion Line (5th picture) can peel all size of onions and any quality (one more picture in the attached document).

ContactsTECNOCEAM SRLVegetables Processing PlantsSala Baganza (Parma) - ITALY Tel.: +39 (0)521 833738Email: [email protected]: www.tecnoceam.com

An increasing number of proper-ties for the edible coatings

Raffaele Porta et al., J Biotechnol Bio-mater 2013

The application of edible coatings is incre-asingly demonstrating to be a relatively

new and simple technology, effective in preventing the appearance and textural deterioration of several products. The use of different types of films based on a varie-ty of single biopolymers, or on their combi-nations, results to be extremely advanta-geous even though all data obtained so far indicate that the coatings need to be tailo-red and optimized for each kind of foods. The paper by Porta et al., published 2013 by the magazine J. of Biotechnology & Bio-materials review the strategy using edible coatings to extend the shelf-life of minima-lly processed fruits & vegetables.

Edible coatings show an increasing num-ber of protective effects like delay ripening in some climacteric fruits, reduce enzyma-tic browning, counteract oxidative degra-dation, antimicrobial properties, carrier of a wide range of food additives –anti-brow-ning agents, colorants, flavors, nutrients, spices, … - to extend the self life but also to improve the safety and acceptability. An example mentioned by the authors indica-tes prevention of the dehydration and mi-crobial proliferation in fresh-cut carrot coa-ted with sodium alginate, followed by a fi-nal packaging into a microperforated poly-propylene film under passive or active MAP (more details in the complete paper, below). Furthermore, from the sensory point of view, coated carrots were appre-ciated for about two weeks, whereas all the uncoated ones were refused after only two days.

Another example is the effectiveness of soy protein coatings in reducing oxidative browning and moisture loss of cut apples and potatoes during their storage at 4ºC.

“In conclusion, we want to highlight that a relatively simple technology, such as the application of edible coatings obtainable from inexpensive raw materials, is effective against both browning development and textural deterioration happening during the management and storage of fresh-cut products. The use of various combinations of treatments may be certainly advanta-


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geous, even though they should be opti-mized for each plant species and someti-mes probably even for each cultivar.”

Edible coatings for minimally processed productsAgricoat, http://www.postharvest.biz/en/c o m p a n y / a g r i c o a t - n a t u r e s e a l - l t d / _id:49906/Domca, http://www.domca.com/index.php?lang=en

SourcesEdible Coating as Packaging Strategy to Extend the Shelf-life of Fresh-Cut Fruits and VegetablesRaffaele Porta1*, Giovanna Rossi-Mar-quez1, Loredana Mariniello1, Angela So-rrentino2, C. Valeria L. Giosafatto1, Marile-na Esposito1 and Prospero Di Pierro1J Biotechnol Biomater 3:e124. doi: 10.4172/2155-952X.1000e1241Department of Chemical Sciences, Uni-versity of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy2Department of Agriculture, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, ItalyCorresponding Author : Raffaele Porta, [email protected]

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Complete article, linkhttp://omicsonline.org/open-access/edi-ble-coating-as-packaging-strategy-to-ex-tend-the-shelflife-of-freshcut-fruits-and-v e g e t a b l e s - 2 1 5 5 - 9 5 2 X - 3 - e 1 2 4 .php?aid=22423

World carrot production increases a 50% over the last ten years, but decreases in Europe, specially South

Christian Hutin & Danièle Scandella, Carrot and other Apiaceae Internatio-nal Symposium

Europe’s main Apiaceae crops are carrot (5 million tons), with fennel a distant second (522,000 t), followed by celeriac (400,000 t) and blanching celery (274,000 t).

World carrot production is estimated at 35.5 million tons (FAO, average 2010-2012), which means a 50% increase over the last ten years. China is by far the largest produ-cer, with a volume of 17 million tons. It is followed by Russia and the United States (ca. 1.5 million t each). Poland ranks fourth in the world (800,000 t).

In Europe, carrot production is evaluated at a little over 5 million tons, which is a 2% decrease compared to the early 2000s. France is positioned behind Poland and the UK, together with Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

Production in France and Italy has been declining since the early 2000s, whereas Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium have raised their volumes. For the EU-27 as a whole, imports from third countries are very low as compared to intra-EU trade vo-lumes, which represent almost one fifth of the European production.


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Overall French production (fresh + proces-sing) remained fairly stable between 2000 and 2007, at about 700,000 t, but decrea-sed in subsequent years, with a total of ca. 532,000 t in 2013.

Production for the fresh market dropped from almost 500,000 t in 2000 to 300,000 t in 2013.

In ten years’ time, import volumes increa-sed by 30%, reaching ca. 133,000 tons, whi-le exports decreased by nearly 10%, and now represent 100,000 tons (average 2011-2013).

As an average for 2011-2013, 43% of im-ports (to France) came from Belgium, 19% from Spain, and 8% from the Netherlands and Portugal respectively; 39% of the (French) exported volumes were destined for Belgium, 15% for the United Kingdom, and 8% for the Netherlands.

Original title, authors and sourcesKey figures of international production of carrot and other ApiaceaeChristian Hutin and Danièle ScandellaCtifl

Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/

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Projects and new results in organic carrots by CIOA

Philipp W. Simon, John P. Navazio, Micaela Colley, Lori Hoagland, Philip A. Roberts, Lindsey du Toit, Tim Waters, Erin Silva, Jed Colquhoun, Joe Nunez, Cathleen McCluskey and Jared Zystro

U.S. organic farmers surveyed listed impro-ved seedling germination and Alternaria leaf blight resistance as top breeding prio-rities for field production of organic ca-rrots. Nematode resistance is also very im-portant formgrowers. Flavor was deemed the most important consumer trait to im-prove in carrots, and nutrition the most im-portant product quality variable for consu-mers.

To address these needs, field trials of 34 di-verse carrots varying in top size, disease and pest resistance, root shape and color, flavor, and nutritional value were evalua-ted by the Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture (CIOA) Project on both organic and conventional farms in California, India-na, Washington, and Wisconsin. Wide ran-ges of seedling growth rates and canopy sizes were observed in this diverse carrot germplasm that includes, not only orange carrots, but also novel purple, yellow, and red storage root colors.

Top height varied two-fold among entries at a given location, and fresh carrot flavor (sweetness and harsh, turpentiney flavor) also varied widely among the genetic stocks evaluated across the locations and production systems. Relative top height ranking among genetic stocks was quite consistent, with no system-by-variety inte-


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raction detected for this trait. Relative ran-king of flavor scores was also relatively consistent across locations. Soil assays comparing the organic and conventional trials at each site indicated significant di-fferences among locations, and between organic vs. conventional paired trials in all four locations, including labile organic matter pools, and bacterial, fungal and ar-cheal community composition. Nematode and Alternaria leaf blight resistance trials demonstrated a wide range of variation among genetic stocks. Other diseases ob-served in some of the trials were bacterial blight, Cercospora leaf spot, and powdery mildew. The CIOA Project reached approxi-mately 160 farmers in 2012-13 with educa-tion on organic breeding and variety trials.

Original tittle, authors and sourcesThe CIOA (Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture) Project: Location, Cropping System, and Genetic Background Influence Carrot Performance Including Top Height and FlavorPhilipp W. Simon1, John P. Navazio2, Mi-caela Colley2, Lori Hoagland3, Philip A. Ro-berts4, Lindsey du Toit5, Tim Waters6, Erin Silva7, Jed Colquhoun7, Joe Nunez8, Cathleen McCluskey2 and Jared Zystro91-USDA, Madison, WI,2-Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, WA,3-Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,4-University of California - Riverside, River-side,5-Washington State University, Mount Ver-non, WA,6-Washington State University Extension, Pasco, WA,7-University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI,8-University of California Cooperative Ex-tension, Bakersfield, CA,9-Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, WA., USACarrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/Picture by www.carrotmuseum.co.uk

Trends in carrot production and breeding in Japan

Taro TAKAGI, Haruna NAGASHIMA, Ayako NOGUCHI Mikado Kyowa Seed Co., Ltd. 2069-40 Kawaharai Sodegau-ra-Shi, Chiba, Japan

Carrot is one of a most important vegeta-ble in Japan. Despite medium size acrea-ges of carrot root production (19000ha), extensive hybrid varieties use and high seed price make Japanese market as one of a biggest carrot seed market (more than 3 billion JPY = 20 million Euros at wholesale level) in the world. Total root production reaches 570 kilo ton and more than 85% are used for fresh purpose.

There are three major cropping seg-ments in Japan, “Summer sowing”, “Main season” and “Early sowing”. In main carrot production area, cultivation is mechanized from sowing to harvest. In some big pro-duction places, washing and packing are also getting highly mechanized. In all seg-ments, Kuroda type and Chantenay type hybrid varieties are used. But leading varie-ties varies depending on segments and re-gion. Also breeding requirements are slightly different basing on segment. In all segment, slightly conical shape with 16-18cm root length, very uniform root shape with appropriate root size are preferred, in order to achieve high marketable yield.


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Recently, seed use per hectare is decrea-sing (450 kilo seeds per hectare) to minimi-ze thinning costs. As the result, demand for seed quality and germination are also get-ting higher. Today, major carrot seed suppliers in Japanese carrot market are five Japanese seed companies, and a few other seed companies are rising. Trends in carrot breeding axis at Japanese seed companies seem to be exploiting new hybrid varieties with adaptability for mechanical harvest and with highly uniform root shape and size to give high income profit to growers. These trends seem obvious in “Summer sowing” and “Early sowing” segments. Cu-rrently, some hybrid varieties used in Japan are also taking significant market share at hybrid carrot seed market in China that has potential to be the biggest carrot seed market in the world.

Original tittle, authors and sources

Trends in carrot production and breeding in Japan

Taro TAKAGI, Haruna NAGASHIMA, Ayako NOGUCHI Mikado Kyowa Seed Co., Ltd. 2069-40 Kawaharai Sodegaura-Shi, Chiba, Japan

Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/

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Influence of the technique of direct covering with a perforated polyethylene film on yield and earliness of three carrot cultivars

Saturnino, S. & Dias, J. S., Carrot and other Apiaceae International Sympo-sium

In Universidade of Lisboa was estudied the influence of the technique of direct cove-ring with a perforated polyethylene (PE) film on yield and earliness of three carrot cultivars was studied. The economic viabili-ty of the technique was also assessed.

The field trial was conducted in randomi-zed blocks, with three replications and it wasperformed in Alcochete. Both factors, cultivar and technique of direct covering with coverage removal of 91 DAS (L1) and 114 DAS (L2), were studied simultaneously. In order to quantify the effect of factors, the following variables were assessed: number of plants per m2, number of leaves per plant, length and diameter of roots, and green and dry weight matter of aerial parts and roots.

To determine the earliness, the temperatu-re under the covers and on the ground was monitored and the temperatures sums were determined. The technique of direct covering significantly influenced the num-ber of leaves per plant, length and diame-ter of the roots, the root dry matter, yield and earliness. The Flakkee and Nantes cul-tivars presented the higher yields with 50.8 t/ha and 41.2 t/ha, respectively. The Flakkee treatment with L1 was the most productive with 63.6 t/ha.


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The technique of direct covering proved to be economically viable in Flakkee and Nan-tes. In Chantenay, the less productive with 32.1 t/ha, the technique is only viable on a differentiated product.

Original tittle, authors and sourcesInfluence of the technique of direct cove-ring with a perforated polyethylene (PE) film on yield and earliness of three carrot cultivarsSaturnino, S. & Dias, J. S.Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universi-dade de Lisboa.Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/

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Improvement phosphate fertilising practices in carrot crops

Raynal Lacroix C. & Denoroy P., Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium

Vegetable species are generally classified in the category of plants with high phos-phorus (P) requirements. Such is the case for carrot, and the no-fertilisation thres-hold is 70 mg P₂O₅ (Olsen)/kg soil for crops in Sandy soil. Current practices are based on that value, but there has been no vali-dation of the initial hypothesis and the en-suing practices.

Four trials were conducted in the Aquitai-ne region (southwest France), a major growing area characterised by organic san-dy soils with acid pH, in order to analyse

the crop’s response to a wide range of P le-vels in the soil. The resulting response cur-ves show that the current P₂O₅ (Olsen) threshold is too high in relation to the ac-tual requirements of carrot crops. New in-dicators of phosphorus bioavailability, ba-sed on water-soluble P dynamics, were evaluated in spring and summer crops, and experimental references were established. As a result, the minimum P concentration of the soil solution, defined by the Cp indi-cator, is evaluated at 1 mg P/l. Above said value, carrot crops show no loss of yield. This response threshold, currently under validation for the diversity of agronomic si-tuations, indicates true potential for pro-gress in phosphate fertilisation practices.

Furthermore, the trials have made it possi-ble to determine the optimum P consump-tion level, i.e. 26 kg P/ha or 60 kg P₂O₅ /ha (for 50 t of commercial production); excess P will not enhance crop yield or quality. Fi-nally, soil reserves represent a significant source of P. For instance, in soil considered as phosphorus-poor (20 mg P₂O₅ Olsen/kg soil), more than half of the phosphorus used by the crop to ensure optimum yield is supplied by the soil’s own resources.

The newly acquired knowledge and tech-nical references offer a means to update P fertilising practices in carrot crops which, based on the results of this study, may be used as a model for extension to other spe-cies.

Original tittle, authors and sourcesUpdating phosphate fertilising practices in carrot cropsRaynal Lacroix C.(1), Denoroy P.(2)(1) CTIFL,Centre de Lanxade, Prigonrieux F-24130(2) INRA UMR TCEM, Domaine de la Grande Ferrade, Villenave d’Ornon F-33883Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/Picture by www.flickr.com


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The percepcion of organoleptic quality of the carrot depends varie-ty and location of production

B. Navez et al., Carrot and other Apia-ceae International Symposium

Through three years of testing, 2010-2012, the sensory variability of carrot was investi-gated. The quality assessment is based on descriptive sensory quantitative analysis and measurements of sugars and firmness.

The sensory space built on many batches from the various types of carrot and two production areas is characterized by a first axis opposing products perceived sweeter to products perceived bitter, pungent with a “chemical” aroma and by a second axis based on texture with juicier products op-posed to firmer products with remains in the mouth. In this space, an overall global aroma criterion associated with a high le-vel of sugar characterizes consumer-prefe-rred products (Cottet et al. Cf presentation on consumer preferences).

Meanwhile some batches are measured cooked (steaming). The sensory space of cooked carrots is strongly determined by the criteria of texture that oppose firm pro-ducts to those appreciated as melting.

Despite a cooking protocol taking into ac-count the size of carrots, it is difficult to distinguish the varietal characteristics effect from the cooking factor. For the other criteria of the cooked product, the sweetness perception opposed to the bit-ter one is more discriminating than the aroma criteria.

The various types of carrot are distributed throughout the sensory space. However, the location and year of production are im-portant factors in the expression of varie-ties quality criteria. The varietal choice ap-pears dominant, and in this work model varieties have been identified; they either have a low variability, or an aromatic or sweet expression influenced by the envi-ronment.

Original tittle, authors and sourcesOrganoleptic quality of the carrot. Impor-tance of variety and location of production in the perception of sensory quality of ca-rrotB. Navez 1, V. Cottet 2, F. Villeneuve 3, M. Jost1, F. Latour2, S. Huet 4, E. Geoffriau 41, 2,3 Ctifl4 Agrocampus Ouest, Institut de Recher-che en Horticulture et Semences (IRHS)Carrot and other Apiaceae International Symposium, 17-19 September 2014, An-gers, France, http://www.symposium-ca-rrot-apiaceae2014.fr/

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U.S.: Sweet potato exports spike over five-year period

Freshfruitportal, December 2014

The value of U.S. sweet potato exports has surged 80% in the past five years to reach a record US$95 million, the American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute (ASPMI) repor-ted.

Exports have jumped sharply to regions targeted by the association’s international market development efforts and are conti-nuing to rise this year.

“There’s no doubt that global demand for U.S. sweet potatoes is on the rise,” ASPMI president Johnny Barnes said.

“And thanks to our efforts at introducing American sweet potatoes to health-cons-cious consumers around the world, we be-lieve we’re on the cusp of seeing unprece-dented exports over the coming years.”

The ASPMI was formed in 2013 to promote the attributes of U.S. sweet potatoes do-mestically and abroad, and is already seeing progress in the targeted European markets.

Research shows that awareness of U.S. sweet potatoes in Europe is low, but cu-rrently on the up. Exports to the EU are up 17% so far this year.

The ASPMI leverages US Department of

Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)-administered programs to promote exports of the vegetable. These cost-share programs, such as the Emerging Markets Program (EMP) and Market Access Program (MAP), allow the association to re-ach emerging markets that were untapped until recently.

“Most sweet potato operations are small to medium family owned farms. EMP and MAP funds give them the assistance nee-ded to access new export markets,” Barnes added.

Sourceswww.freshfruitportal.com, with the picture by www.shutterstock.com

19.529 visitors at INTERPOM PRIMEURS

Demonstrate strong confidence in the future

The 17th edition of INTERPOM | PRIMEURS in Kortrijk Xpo has again chalked up record visitor numbers with no less than 19 529 visitors, representing an increase of 10.5%. In spite of the difficult market situation to-day, these growth figures (the last edition was also up 25.7%) together with the many new products at the event show that there is strong confidence in the future of our potato, fruit and vegetable sector. There is nothing random about the theme of the event, ‘together for sustainable growth’ – everyone is aware of the importance of sustainable growth and the many innovati-ve products on display at INTERPOM PRI-


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MEURS are further proof of this. There was a very positive atmosphere and a striking increase in interest from foreign visitors from all over the world.

A complete range of exhibitsThis year, INTERPOM PRIMEURS was com-pletely sold out, with 278 exhibitors (+ 7.7%) from 15 different countries occu-pying a total stand area of 16 171m² (+14%). In all, the organizers welcomed a total of 19 529 visitors: 8 987 on the Sun-day (+ 4.3% compared with the last edi-tion), 5 661 on Monday (+ 10.5%) and 4 881 on the closing day (+24%). This means that INTERPOM PRIMEURS is now the lar-gest indoor trade platform in Europe – and even worldwide – for all professionals in the potato, fruit and vegetable sector, where the whole chain is represented, from growing to processing and marke-ting.

Hindryckx and Condi-plants win Inno Pota-to Award 2014 Good ideas deserve to be rewarded! Especially if they make our agri-culture more efficient, sustainable and hig-her quality. This is why the entire potato chain has come together again to present the third Inno Potato Award. The prize is awarded by the sector to potato producers with innovative projects, as a means of en-couraging potato growers to continue to work on innovation in the sector.

Jeroen Hindryckx of Koekelare and Condi-Plants of Gembloux are the winners of the third Inno Potato Award. Their projects were selected over the first two days of the event by their fellow potato growers and a professional jury as the most innovative projects on show. Hindryckx impressed everyone with his spreader for effluent

containing nitrogen and he is the winner in Flanders. For Wallonia, Condi-Plants won with its preventative treatment of seed po-tatoes against rhizoctonia. The second and third prizes in the Flanders category went to Dirk Serry and Tim Bockstael respecti-vely, and to Sébastien Deknudt and Jean-Pol Tellier for the Wallonia category. Repre-sentatives of the Ministers of Agriculture presented the awards and cheques for € 1 500, € 1 000 and € 750 provided by the Fle-mish and Walloon governments to the pri-zewinners at the official prize-giving cere-mony on the closing day of the event. You can find a short description of these pro-jects at www.innopotato.be.

Inspiring and informative seminarsIn addition to the extensive range of exhi-bitors and unlimited scope for networking, INTERPOM | PRIMEURS also presented a va-ried programme of three seminars on the Monday. Dr. Annette Förschler (QS), Bri-gitta Wolf (Vegaplan) and ir. Bert Waterink (VVA/VVAK) gave a presentation on the ex-changeability of quality systems for potato, fruit and vegetable products. Fedepom and Belgapom organized a panel discus-sion with Sascha Siegel (Eurex) and Edwin Burgers (DCA) on the the question of ‘Is the futures market a risk-spreading instrument for trading and processing?’. Katrien De Nul (Vlam) and Luc Roisin (Apaq-W) gave a pre-sentation on ‘Generic promotion of pota-toes and potato products’. For comparison, Kate Cox of the British Potato Council (the British counterpart of Vlam & Apaq-W) pre-sented her own British promotion cam-paign and the impact it has had. Finally, the brand new promotion campaign ‘Bel-gian potato products from the land of po-


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tato chips’ was presented by Belgapom. You can download all these presentations from the INTERPOM | PRIMEURS website under ‘seminars’.

The next edition of INTERPOM | PRIMEURS is planned for 27, 28 & 29 November 2016 in Kortrijk Xpo.

INTERPOM | PRIMEURS is an initiative of Belgapom, the official trade association of the Belgian potato trade, from growing to processing. The practical organization is in the capable hands of Kortrijk Xpo.

SourcePress release - Kortrijk, 26 November 2014

Pictures1 - Potato processing technology by Kire-mko2 - AVR, a main player in the field technolo-gy equipment3 - Storage equipment in the front, and processing technology by Tomra4 - The main number of visitors was on Sunday (8987), followed by Monday (5661). The main increases related to the 2012 edi-tion were on Monday (+10.5%), and the

closing day, Tuesday (+24%)5 - Promotional campaing explained du-ring the seminars.

NIRS, promissory technology to determine starch content of lyo-philized potatoes

C. Jarén et al., VII Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas

Starch is the main carbohydrate present in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.). It repre-sents the 75% of the dry matter content of these tubers. Starch content in potatoes is considered of great importance since their final quality is directly related to that com-pound. Its importance derives from the fact of being one of the sources of carbo-hydrates in the human diet. Traditionally starch content in potato has been determi-ned by chemical analyses which are labo-rious and time consuming. However, near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technologies have become a powerful tool in the predic-tion and estimation of the different consti-tuents of the plants over the last years. NIRS is a fast and reliable technique easy to use and non-contaminant as it does not generate residues with its use. Some authors have studied the determination of starch content in potato samples; however, literature concerning the use of lyophilised samples is scarce.

The objective of the present work is to pre-dict the starch content of lyophilised sam-ples of potato by NIRS.

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potatoes. Chemical analyses to determine starch content and the lyophilised of the samples were carried out at the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and De-velopment (NEIKER Tecnalia). NIR spectral data were collected using a Luminar 5030 Miniature “Hand held” AOTF-NIR (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter-Near Infrared) Analyser (Brimrose Corporation of America) in the reflectance mode. Each sample was scan-ned twice and a spectral range of 1100-2300 nm was used. Spectral data were analysed using Unscramble software ver-sion 8.0.5 with the aim of developing a ca-libration model able to estimate the starch content of the samples.

As a result, the correlation coefficients r obtained ranged from 0.78 to 0.86.

The conclusion is that NIRS seems a pro-missory technology for starch determina-tion.

Original tittle, authors and sourcesDeterminación del contenido de almidón en liofilizado de patata por tecnología NIRSC. Jarén1, A. López1, S. Arazuri1, J. I. Ruiz de Galarreta2, P. Riga3 y R. López21Universidad Pública de Navarra, Campus de Arrosadía, 31006, Pamplona, [email protected] Vasco de Investigación y Desa-rrollo Agrario, Arkaute, Vitoria-Gasteiz3Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desa-rrollo Agrario, Derio, Vizcaya

VII Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas, Madrid, 26-29 agosto 2013, http://sechaging-madrid2013.org/eposter/?seccion=search

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Schouten Octabin Filler

A complete system to automatically weigh, fill and stack

The Octabin Filler is a complete system to automatically weigh, fill and stack Octab-ins. The Octabin Filler, by Schouten Sorting Equipment, www.schoutenkampen.com is controlled by a PLC.

Each elevator is split in two parts, one of 350 mm and one of 150 mm width. Both parts are used to fill the hopper. As soon as a preset weight in the hopper is reached, only the small part will continue to fill the hopper until the correct weight has been reached. While the hoppers are being fi-lled, the pallet with the empty octabins is lifted into the upper position. When both hoppers have been filled with the correct preset weight, the bottom of the hoppers open and the boxes are lowered.

The operator assembles a pallet with octa-bins in the first station.

If the buffer station is empty the pallet will be moved in that position until the octabin can be filled. The forklift in the stacker will lift the pallet in the upper position. The next pallet will be moved in the stacker and the top pallet will be lowered gently onto the bottom one and the forks will be removed from the pallet.


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Grimme VARITRON 470

Self-propelled harvesters

The self-propelled harvesters of the VARI-TRON, by Grimme, www.grimme.de, series give a high variability with the various op-tions of different separators (MultiSep, Ro-ller Separator, fine haulm elevator) and high performance. The driver has all the time a good view onto the intake unit and main webs from the comfortable cab.

The very agile VARITRON 470 is equipped with wheels. The Mercedes-Benz engine fulfils the exhaust emission standard Tier 4 and the automotive driving ensures redu-ced fuel consumption.

Root distribution in potato may explain drought resistance

Puértolas Simón et al., VII Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas

Potato consumes the most irrigation water in the United Kingdom, so improving crop

water use efficiency could be essential for sustainable agriculture. Potato is a relati-vely drought-sensitive species. However, water saving irrigation techniques can be applied to drought resistant varieties in the later stages to maintain yield despite applying less water. Optimising irrigation practices requires a good understanding of the physiological mechanisms allowing su-perior performance of drought tolerant va-rieties.

Within the framework of the EU-funded project SIRRIMED, a series of experiments aimed to explain why the Horizon variety is more drought resistant than the com-monly used Maris Piper variety. Plants were grown in a polytunnel (to prevent rainfall compromising the experimental design) and irrigation was automatically scheduled based on defined soil moisture thresholds. Both varieties received four different irriga-tion treatments during the tuber bulking stage (full irrigation (FI), partial root-zone drying with the dry side alternating (PRD-A), partial root-zone drying with sides fixed (PRD-F), and full root-zone drying (DI) in decreasing order of amount of water applied). Treatments that applied 60% and 0% water of FI (PRD-F and DI respectively) decreased tuber yield (by 20% and 50% respectively) in Maris Piper but not in Hori-zon. This was related to the higher root density of Horizon in deep (> 40 cm) per-manently wet soil layers.

When plants were grown in 5 L pots in a glasshouse experiment during two months, no differential responses to water deficits of gas exchange, leaf water poten-tial, leaf xylem abscisic acid concentration, specific leaf area, and shoot biomass were found. However, under well watered condi-tions, root growth during the first month was three-fold higher in Horizon compared to Maris Piper and two-fold after two months of experiment. Water deficit redu-ced this difference to two-fold in the first month and no difference after two months. Therefore, Horizon seems to maintain yield by rapidly securing access to water stored


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in deep moist layers. However, this advan-tage may require particular environmental or cultural conditions to be expressed, such as sufficiently deep soils or adequate water conditions (achieved by irrigation or rainfall) in the early stages after emergen-ce.

Original title, authors and sourcesInfluencia del vigor de la raíz sobre la resis-tencia a la sequía de dos variedades de pa-tataJaime Puertolas Simón; Carlos Ballester; David Elphinstone; Ian C. [email protected] Congreso Ibérico de Agroingeniería y Ciencias Hortícolas, Madrid, 26-29 agosto 2013, http://sechaging-madrid2013.org/eposter/?seccion=search

Picture of cv Horizon, by http://varieties.potato.org.uk/varieties/view/Horizon

Dewulf RJA2060

Trailed potato harvester

This sublime offset trailed potato harves-ter, by Dewulf, www.dewulfgroup.com, is equipped with a harvesting unit driven discs instead of diabolo rollers and an inte-grated haulm chopper. Thanks to this unit, it’s possible to harvest under all circum-stances in one time. Cleaning is based on 3 sieving webs, lower hedgehog belt fo-llowed by axial rollers and a flat upper hed-gehog belt with 4-row finger system. The R2060 has the biggest wheel tires in its segment and is equipped with unloading on the move as a standard.

Management of potato storage conditions to avoid diseases

Dr. Khalil I. Al-Mughrabi, Potato Development Centre, Canada

“Control of Potato Storage Conditions for the Management of Post-harvest Losses due to Diseases “ is a 9 pages document of the Canadian Horticultural Council sum-marizes, in a clear and practical way, the potato storage conditions to minimize postharvest losses due diseases.

Temperature is mentioned as the single most important factor in the keeping qua-lity of stored potatoes. Respiration, sprou-ting, water loss, relative humidity, chemical composition and the development of sto-rage diseases are all influenced by tempe-rature. The majority of storage diseases are partially or completely inhibited by stora-ge temperatures below 7.2ºC, but the re-port indicates that depending on the varie-ty, consult an agronomist.

The indications for Wound Healing and Cu-ring Period depend on the sanitary condi-tions of the potatoes, with indications for the storage of healty potatotes or problem potatoes.


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For the cooling and holding period, the optimum conditions depend of the end use of the crop: seed, table stock, proces-sing stock.

Potatoes should be warmed to at least 7.2oC, and preferably higher, before hand-ling.

The ventilation is the 2nd tool to be mana-ged, beside the temperature. The report explains the air movement during the sto-rage period, humidity management and storage monitoring.

As contact person the report indicates Dr. Khalil I. Al-MughrabiChair, National Late Blight Working GroupPotato Development CentreE-mail: [email protected] report is available inhttp://issuu.com/horticulturaposcosecha/docs/potato_storage_management_fact_shee

DC 3000

Crate unstacker

The crate unstacker DC 3000, by Tosca, www.tosca-france.com, was developed to complement our range. It is engineered to be general-purpose and able to distribute crates from 2 stacks up to 2 meter high, thus offering

much autonomy. The storage unit allows to adequately position the stacks of crates before they move into the unstacker. The self-learning mode of the touch-screen makes it easy to program and memorize the set-up of a new crate. The DC 3000 co-mes with tooling to unstack any kind of crate or platter and is easily interchangea-ble.

HP Compact™

The solution for total hygiene

HP COMPACT™, by Chiorino Benelux, www.chiorino.com , is a new belt concept in the field of conveyor and process belts – smooth or positive drive – assuring total hygiene and maximum resistance in any application.

It goes beyond the application limits of both modular and monolithic belts, rein-forced or not, commonly found in the mar-ket.


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Spirit 9200 Varioweb

Cleaning module

AVR, www.avr.be, has applied its patented Varioweb cleaning module to the newest member of the successful Spirit family, the Spirit 9200 Varioweb, a first for a pulled 2-row machine. This allows for flexible clea-ning!

Varioweb cleaning module, ready for all harvesting conditions.

The Varioweb replaces the cross roller set/in-line pintlebelt combination, and con-sists of a standing pintlebelt and axial ro-llers. A unique feature is the ability to con-tinuously set the product flow volume that travels across the axial rollers from the ca-bin: from 100% when intensive cleaning is required to fully removing the axial rollers from the product flow when hardly any cleaning is required. This is achieved by moving the pintlebelt forward or bac-kward.

A long transversal pintle belt transports the product flow to the picking-off table, where two persons can be positioned to execute a final inspection.

KEEN & GREEN: the Varioweb can be adjus-ted to the harvesting conditions, such as wet or dry and light or heavy soil.


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Condor EnduranceCapacity, capacity, capacity and extreme ease of use

http://www.agrifac.com/condor/condor-endurance

Endurance, by AGRIFAC, http://www.agrifac.nl, is about the ability to maintain an effort over a long period. The Condor Endurance has its name be-cause of this. A reliable, high quality, self-propelled agricultural sprayer with ex-treme endurance. The proven StabiloPlus chassis is the basis for the Condor En-durance. With a step-less track width adjustment of 100 cm all track widths bet-ween 190 cm and 460 cm are available. With a standard ground clearance of 125 cm, you are able to work in all crops. The StabiloPlus chassis and the large stee-ring angle make tight turns possible. The radius of the turning circle is not even 4,50 metre! The Condor Endurance is mounted with a 8,000 litre polyethyleen (PE) tank. This creates the possibility to work for long periods in the field and in-crease efficiency and capacity.

Due to the smooth material and the design of the tank, no rest liquid stays behind in the tank or on the tank wall. Optimal use of the tank capacity is made and it is easy to clean. The tank ends in the GreenFlowPlus pump sys-tem. Therefore the tank can be emptied completely. This means no rest liquid. For filling the Endurance has a separate pump system, the HydroFillPlus. Using a lifting arm, the HydroFillPlus can be lowered which means the machine can be filled to maximum capacity very easily. With at least 800 l/min and maximum 1,500 l/min the tank is filled rapidly. The Endurance is equipped with a powerful 235 kW (320 HP) engine. In combination with the strong J-boom and the Stabi-loPlus chassis it is possible to work at high spraying speeds. Boom widths from


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24 to 54 metre are possible. The high road speed of 50 km/h also ensures a high capacity.

Largest sprayer, lowest weight

The tank capacity of 8,000 litres and working speeds up to 36 km/h, make this machine a real capacity monster. Due to the Brilliant Simple development and design, the Condor Endurance is the lightest in its class. This combined with the 217 cm high and 710 mm wide tires give the machine a very low ground pressure. Through the selection of the tyres, the machine can even be driven 50km/h with a tyre pressure of only 1,2 bar!

Capacity

The Condor Endurance has an unprecedented capacity, from less than 4,000 litres (competition) to 8,000 litres, a rise in capacity of more than 100%. High working speeds up to 36 km/h and boom widths to 54 metre give the Con-dor Endurance capacity as never seen before. With the GreenFlowPlus pump sys-tem, fitted with the high speed pressure regulator and self-cleaning filter, plus the clever placing of the system, ensures that the tank can be completely emp-tied of fluid and that the whole tank capacity can be used. Therefore rest liquid is history. Due to the high driving speeds on the road and in the field and with a spray pump of 380l/min, you have in every situation high capacity. Whether you are spraying cereals in Australia with 50 l/ha or potatoes in The Netherlands with 300 l/ha, the Condor Endurance fits into any system.

Extreme ease of use

The Condor Endurance has many “Brilliant Simple” developments that make the use and access of the machine easier, smarter and simpler. For instan-ce, the filling of the tank via the HydroFillPlus system. Filling from at least 800l/min to 1,500 l/min! The pump is located on a lifting arm under the machine and can be operated from the outside. The large ground clearance of 125 cm is pre-served when the system is folded under the cab. For spraying the GreenFlowPlus system is used, compact, simple and easy to access. Operation of the machine is extremely simple through the EcoTronicPlus operation system. At a glance all the functions and parameters are seen, making it easy to adjust settings and operate the machine.

More information, about the capacity of Condor Endurance for different species, an its extreme easy use, HERE, http://www.agrifac.com/condor/condor-endurance.


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Media

Growing, Harvesting and Storing Potatoes with Spudmanhttp://spudman.com/Spudman publishes news and information dedicated to potato farming and production, offering regular, informative articles and advice on growing, harvesting, through regular printed and digital edition and eSpudman.The web site also includes archives starting 2004, multimedia information (videos, pictures, etc.), an yealy updated buyers guide, etc.

PotatoPro: Portal for the global potato & potato processing industryhttp://www.potatopro.comPotato News, Products and Services for the global potato & potato processing industry. Di-rectories of suppliers and manufacturers and in the potato sector.With information about equipment manufacturers, a Global Potato Industry Guide, manu-factureers of french fries, jobs, dehydrated potato products, farm frites, food trends, news on potato starch, and chips and snacks.PotatoPro Weekly, electronic newsletter.

Redepapa, Latinamerica potato electronic networkhttp://redepapa.orgThe Red Electronic Potato, REDEPAPA, was established in the year 1999 as an effort set of va-rious institutions involved in the potato industry, especially from countries of the Andes. It issues regularly a newsletter, and adds relevant documents. Its aim is to provide the different actors in the potato chain in Latin America a space to ex-change information and experiences, disseminate news of interest and develop joint ac-tions.

Farminguk, online information about agriculture, including potatoeswww.farminguk.comWeb site with contents about feed and forage, poultry, animal health, renewables, crops (in-cluding potatoes, and other extensive crops), irrigation, agri safety, etc.

Farmers Guardian, internet information about arable cropshttp://www.farmersguardian.comWeb site with information for arable crops, including potatoes.


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Potato Business, supporting the potato industry worldwidehttp://www.potatobusiness.com/Portal on the Internet specialized in information about potato, with related activities (Potato Processing Intl., Potato Storage Intl., Potato Business digital; IPPSC, Intl. Potato Processing & Storage Convention).

Potato World Magazine: the #1 source of potato informationhttp://www.potatoworld.eu/Potato World magazine is, according to its website, the number one source of potato infor-mation for industry professionals worldwide. All our specialized journalists are proud to re-port about the latest international developments of this main food crop from the potato hart of Western Europe.

Onions and potatoeshttp://www.onionspotatoesWeb page that explains how to add value in each step of the value chain, from harvest up to the product on the consumer´s table. The process is based in the use production and postharvest Dutch technologies for potatoes and onions. The page has interesting informa-tion for each step: harvest, transportation, storage, handing, processing, packaging.The page exists in Spanish, http://www.cebollas-papas.com, and English, http://www.onionspotatoes.com. Its motto is “Mechanization fights inflation”.

ALAP Magazinehttp://www.papaslatinas.org/revista.htmlThe Latin American Potato Association, with headquarters in the research institution INTA in Balcarce, Argentina, prints the Latin American Potato Review since 1988, containing scienti-fic and technical articles.In 2013 the magazine has its 25th birthday, having published 15 is-sues and with plans to increase its frequency.All issues are avaiable under the Association´s web page:www.papaslatinas.org/revista.html

British magazine Farmers Weeklyhttp://academy.fwi.co.ukBritish publication for extensive crops, including information about potato production and large machinery. In the academic section you find texts on potato diseases, among other subjects.

Spudmanhttp://spudman.com/Spudman, web site of the magazine of the same name, writes esclusively about the potato industry and mostly in the USA. Published monthly, the web page has videos, activities schedule and a buyer´s guide with information about input suppliers for the potato indus-try.


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Associations and growers

Abrunhoeste, in the hearth of the fruit growing area in Portugalhttp://www.abrunhoeste.pt/en/galeriaAbrunhoeste S..A. is a production and commercialization company located in the Centre West Region of Portugal, an area of excellence for fruit development. It offers Rocha pear, Royal Gala apple, plum, orange, nectarine, and also cabbage, and onion.

Agristo potatoeshttp://www.agristo.be/producten.asp?l=fr&group=productenAn overview of the products of the company.

All you can do with onionshttp://www.smitsuien.nl/Smit´s Uien is a Dutch company that works with onions of all kinds and shapes. All types that a chef can need. Without having to cry to peel them…

APRE, Alliance for Potato Research and Educationhttp://www.apre.org/APRE is actively building the science foundation concerning the nutritional benefits of the white potato; creating partnerships with critical health professional organizations in the United States and Canada; and educating dietitians and health professionals by providing them with the latest scientific research and information on potato nutrition, consumption, and affordability.

Asparagus, rhubarb and other local UK productshttp://www.cobrey.co.uk/produce.htmlCobrey Farms has a history of investing heavily in the research and development of new crops, varieties and growing techniques. One particular area of expertise is season exten-sion for traditional UK produce, which is being achieved in an increasingly environmental sustainable manner whilst improving the taste, and consistency of the produce.Products include asparagus, rhubarb, potatoes, and blueberries.

Asparapacific, asparagus and potato stockhttp://www.asparapacific.co.nz/Aspara Pacific Ltd is New Zealand’s only asparagus breeder and plays a key role in the New Zealand seed potato industry as a main supplier of high health stock. We also purchase, sell and store table- and seedpotatoes. Asparagus Seed - Aspara Pacific supplies asparagus seed to growers around the world either through our agents in Japan and Europe (www.hargreavesplants.co.uk) or direct.


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Bolthouse Farms, carrots, and morehttp://bolthouse.com/Bolthouse Farms manufactures beverages, dressings, carrots.

Bruwier Potatoeshttp://www.bruwier.be/For more than 50 years, Bruwier Potatoes has been looking for the potatoes that you need, throughout the world, in the required quantity, size, colour and variety at the keenest prices.

Candy carrotshttp://www.harries.nl/Harries B.V. is the Supplier of snack-carrots (cut and peeled) to retail and industry; supplier of carrot parts as raw material to vegetable/salad-cutting companies.

Champion produce, onions and potatoeshttp://www.championproduce.com/Combining decades of packaging expertise with generations of growing experience makes Champion Produce, Tamura Farms, Giant Produce, and Triple J Produce leaders in onions and potatoes. Produce grown in Idaho (September-April), Utah (November-March), and Cali-fornia (May-August).

CêlaVita, ready to cookhttp://www.celavitafoodservice.nlSpecialist in ready to cook potatoes, both for home consumption and the restoration indus-try. Different presentations for different uses.

Daniel Cadiou, specialist in shallots, onions and ailhttp://www.cadiou.org/our-products-en.htmDifferent kinds of shallot, onions, and other products (artichoke). Between the Alliaceae, Half-long traditional shallot, Long traditional shallot, Grey shallot, Echalion (or Banana sha-llot), Pink onion from Brittany, Pink onion from Roscoff AOP, Red onion, Yellow onion, White onion, Sweet onions, Pink garlic from Brittany, and White garlic.

Daukus, more than carrotshttp://en.daukus.plDAUKUS vegetable producer group in Kołaczkowo (between Warsawa and the Baltic Sea) was founded in 2010 by five vegetable producers. As of today, it is one of the largest manu-facturers of spatially groups in the region with more than 200 ha. The main offer is carrot, broccoli, onions, rootcelery, rootbeet; also parsley, leek, and Chinese cabbage. The web site informs about the varieties for each crop.

Dutch Carrot Group, carrot growers and tradershttp://www.topcarrots.comDutch group specialized in carrot growing, storing and processing. In the web are posted


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carrot prices in two vegetable auctions.

Eren Tarim shows the presentation of its productshttp://www.erentarim.com/eren_eng.htmlEren Tarim is a company established in Mersin, Turkey, in 1993 with an extensive offer of fruits and vegetables. Main are citrus, tomatoes, grapes, leeks and water melons, ...The web site shows main packaging forms. The section “Practical knowledge” explains the properties of some fruits and vegetables

FIWAP, CPP, Belgium institutions for the potatohttp://www.fiwap.beThe FIWAP has as aim the promotion and valorization of the potato, and the promotion of the consumption. The web site is in French language.

Garlic with only one clove and other seldom productshttp://www.greenwayfoodstuffs.com/garlic3.htmGreenway Foodstuffs is a Chinese company offering many different kinds of vegetables.Some very common ones, other not much so. Like very trendy Chinese condiments or very curious garlic with only one clove.

Groentenverwerking Bladel B.V., carrots and onionshttp://www.wortelproducten.nlBroad vegetable product assortment. The company’s speciality is mainly carrots and onions. The largest part of the products are prepared for vegetable processing companies.

Heegsma, trade and export of vegetableshttp://www.heegsmabv.nl/index-en.htmlHeegsma BV is involved with the trade of vegetables throughout Europe. The trade is based on two methods. One is the trade between growers and packers/processors and the other is exporting vegetables throughout Europe: carrots, onions, potatoes, cabbage, iceberg lettu-ce, celeriac / celery rooots, and swedes.

Import & export of onions & potatoeshttp://www.acloogman.nl/information-in-english.htmA.C. Loogman & Zn BV is a wholesaler of consumption potatoes and is established in 1953 at the Food Center of Amsterdam. We wash and pre-pack potatoes of all Dutch varietys and deliver them directly with our own transport through whole Europe.

JWK, Wiskerke Onionshttp://www.wiskerke-onions.nl/Wiskerke Onions works together with a distinctive group of onion growers.Our growers are known for their expert knowledge and experience. They consistently achie-ve high quality onions in spite of the (sometimes) unpredictable weather conditions during the growing season.


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Leader in chestnuthttp://www.frusantos.com/Frusantos is a leading company in the chestnut´s business “Soutos da Lapa - DOP”. This Pro-tected Origin Denomination covers a wide area, distributed in ten different towns which be-long to the “Beira Area”. These towns possess many beautiful landscapes and huge agricultu-re resources. Frusantos also sells apples, potatoes, ail, sweet potatoes, melon, watermelon, strawberry, onion, … The chestnuts are sold sterilized, to guarantee a high quality.

Legend Produce, exclusive Origami cantaloupe growerhttp://www.legendproduce.com/Since 1999, Legend Produce has been growing, supplying and shipping the freshest and highest quality cantaloupes, honeydews, variety melons and sweet potatoes to customers throughout the United States and Canada.

Lucas Lemaire, potato trade internationalhttp://www.lucaslemaire.com/LUCAS LEMAIRE SAS is an independent family company, specialized in the trade of potatoes and onions. The offer includes French fries / Mashed potatoes, Soft skins, Tough skins, and for industrial processing, as well as washed and non washed potatoes. The normal production areas are in France and early production areas in Spain, Morocco, Is-rael, Cyprus, Egypt, and Italy.

Lloret Potatoes and Onionshttp://patataslloret.comPatatas Lloret sells potatoes and other vegetables.

Marchite, longlife onionshttp://cebollasmarchite.com/Cebollas Marchite is a family-run company, founded in 1983 by our parents, Ignacio and Ma-ri-Angeles, with a lot of hard work and perseverance, and now run by us, their children, with the same simple mission: to grow onions and use them to make products of excellent quali-ty, which is the only way we approach agriculture. The beginning was not easy but the goal was clear. We began by working with Recas onions for the Spanish market, and peeling them by hand. Over the years we have found new mar-kets in Europe and have begun specialising in exporting onions, and our peeling system has been improved and modernised.

Middle German onion bureauhttp://www.zwiebelkontor.de/index_en.htmlThe site explains the varieties, production area, the prodution, harvest, storage, and pac-king, and that it is onion available 365 days a year. The storage capacity comprises around70.000 t: 28.000 t of normal warehouses, 28.000 of isulated warehouses, 12.000 t cold stores, and 1.200 t ULO. Nice pictures.


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Mulder Onions, onion importerhttp://www.mulder-onions.com/engels/index.htmlMulder Onions B.V. is an independent branch of the Jover Group which is based in Breda in The Netherlands. It was formerly a part of NJ Mulder B.V. in Bleiswijk, a company that started in 1903 and was bought by the Jover Group in 1997. While Jover imports and exports fruit and vegetables, Mulder Onions exclusively trades onions and to a lesser extent potatoes and garlic from various countries.Trading onions and potatoes from various origins is becoming an important factor in the day to day business activities at Mulder Onions.

Nanteurop, lamb´s lettuce and morehttp://www.nanteurop.frNanteurop is specialized in lamb´s lettuce, young leave, leeks and radishes. In 2007, Group Nanteurop had 250 employees working on 12 farms. Based at St Julien de Concelles a few kilometres from Nantes, this family company had become the jewel in the market garden crown. It continues to develop, and is recognised for its quality in Organisation of Vegetable Producers.

Nicola Farms, vegetables from Kenyahttp://www.nicolafarms.co.ke/Nicola Farms Limited started out as a grower and was incorporated to export fresh vegeta-bles and fruits from Kenya in 1996. It offers different kind of beans, sugar snap, snow peas, baby carrots, baby corn, garden peas, chillies, passion fruits, curry leaves, and assorted her-bs.

Negonor, potatoes with personalityhttp://www.negonor.comNegonor and its brand Vitalis has all the French “know-how” regarding product presenta-tion. You can learn a lot from their web page.

OSVI, garlic, health with tastehttp://www.osvi.net/Allium Prodiber is a company which produces, handles and sells garlic and onions that are grown in farmland in Castile-La Mancha, Castile and Leon and Andalusia.It has two handling and storage centres; one located in Quesa (Valencia), where its head offices are also found, and the other located in Socuéllamos (Ciudad Real) that covers 30,000 m2.With over 30 years of experience, Allium Prodiber’s ascending track record has resulted in it becoming the leading producer of garlic in Europe, which is sold together with onions un-der the brands “Allium”, “Osvi” and “JR”.

Patata della Sila, Italian IGPhttp://www.patatadellasilaigp.comThe Sila potato is distinguished and appreciated for its excellent culinary qualities, in parti-cular with regard to frying; due to the high dry matter content present in the tubers that have grown on the Sila plateau.


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Potatoes and onions for hotels and restaurantshttp://www.zeleninarska.sk/index.php/restaurants-and-hotelsThe section supplying restaurants and hotels of Zeleninarska, a potato and onion specialist shows many different product presentations, based on the supply of Slovak growers.

Processed Potato Productshttp://www.potatoescanada.com/processed-potato-products.aspxA list of Canadian companies that process potato products, including some of the world’s leading potato processors. It offer is frozen French fries, potato chips, dehydrated potatoes and other processed products.

Products from the sun or “Les produits du soleil“http://www.produitsdusoleil.com/Specialized in garlic, onions, shallots…and lately also in secondary and complementary pro-ducts. The page and company are a real inspiration source due to their “savoir faire” in pro-duct presentation, packaging, promotion at the point of sale …

Quickly, potatoes ready to usehttp://www.quicklybestsellers.nl/uk/home/Authentic potato flavour – No additives. Pre-fried in sunflower oil – Cut from fresh potatoes.Products for Consumer, Foodservice, Industry, and Retail.

Sacoje, specialist in broccoli, ... and much morehttp://www.sacoje.comSACOJE export fruit and vegetables to the European market. We are situated in the Guada-lentin valley, one of the main growing areas of the Region de Murcia. The production inclu-des broccoli, tenderstem, different types of lettuce, of cabbage, of cauliflower, courgettes, leeks, chive, etc.

Sam Dennigan and Company, from a passion fruit to a potatohttp://www.samdennigan.ieSam Dennigan and Company is a family business, the seeds of the company being sown in 1976 when our founder, Samuel Laurence Dennigan, began trading in ware and seed pota-toes. It sells the complete range of Irish potato varieties (Rooster, Record, Kerr’s Pink, Gol-den Wonder, Queens and Cultra, to mention a few) in a wide range of pack sizes.From a passion fruit to a potato, from asparagus to zucchini, Sam Dennigan and Company handles the full range of fresh produce.

Sanlong, fruits & vegetables from Chinahttp://www.sanlong.cn/Sanlong was established on 1998; the company is a professional packer and exporter for top quality fresh fruit and vegetable from China.Fuji Apple, Pear, Mandarin, Pummelo, Garlic, Sweet Potato, Ginger & Taro belong to it offer. The web site contains information about avai-lability through the year and presentations with pictures.


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Schaap Holland, marketing in potatoeshttp://www.schaapholland.nlSpecialized in potatoes, with information for growers, commercial cutomers, consumers.

Scottish research serviceshttp://www.mrsltd.com/MRS, Mylnefield Research Services, form Scottland, is associated to the James Hutton Insti-tute. They work with vegetables, potatoes, berries and barley.

Shuman Produce Perú, exportation of sweet onions and other vegetableshttp://www.shumanperu.comExports fresh vegetables like onions, watermelons, avocados.

Special potatoeshttp://www.hijolusa.es/Our company is specialized in handling and packaging of washed and calibrated high quali-ty potatoes, representing 95% of the whole products we process. Different brands, one for microwave.

Sweet potato specialisthttp://www.scottfarms.comSpecialized sweet potato growers. They supply also the breeding materials for this plant.

Terrapoint, potatoes and onionshttp://www.terrapoint.nl/index_en.phpTerrapoint B.V. was established as a new enterprise in Breskens in April 2007. The name is an abbreviation of Potatoes and Onions International. Terrapoint’s activities include: Storing potatoes and onions, Grading potatoes and onions, Packing potatoes and onions to custo-mer specifications, varying from bags of 4 kgs to big bags weighing 1,200 kg, National and international trading in potatoes and onions, Temporary storage and transhipment, and processing of agricultural produce, Weighing agricultural and non-agricultural transport.

The Irish Potato Federation supports potato growers and consumershttp://www.potato.ieThe web site of the Irish Potato Federation is strongly focused on the consumer. It has nutri-tional information, recipes and good ideas for special seasons – like Christmas. But not only that. It also publishes very interesting information for traders, like statitical analysis, lists of exporting members, etc.

The National Onion Association, a voice for the U.S. Onion Industryhttp://www.onions-usa.org/Founded in 1913, the National Onion Association (NOA) is the official organization represen-ting growers, shippers, brokers, and commercial representatives of the U.S. onion industry. The NOA is comprised of over 500 members from the United States and abroad.


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The preparad products of Sunripehttp://www.sunripe.co.ke/prepared.htmlSunripe is a Kenian vertically integrated independent grower, processor, exporter and mar-keter of fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers, supplier at international level.The Prepared Line include prepared okra, shelled peas, prepared baby courgettes, beet & chinese radish, steam wrap, stuffed capsicum, barbeque skewers pack, assorted chilies, ten-dersteam & traditional sliced runner beans, stir fry mix, top & tail extra fine beans in rasp punnet, and open snaps tender stem & carrot ribbons.The conventional and organic lines also enjoy an interseting preparation.

To enjoy sweet potatoeshttp://www.lovesweetpotatoes.com/recipes.aspIn Love Sweet Potatoes, una página web y un enlace a Scott Farms International, www.scott-farmsinternational.com, also in the sweet potato business, you can find information on nu-tritional traits of this root and a gret number of recipes to enjoy its cooking.

United Potato Growers of Americahttp://www.unitedpotatousa.com/United Potato Growers of America is a federated farmer cooperative that focuses on mana-ging its members’ potato supply so as to positively affect their economic success. It is through United membership that potato growers are empowered to better understand and act upon demand for their product.

Verduyn, specialist in baby carrots and more…http://www.verduyn.esThe company specializes in babay carrots, but offers also a large array of other vegetables. Fresh, processed and ready for catering.

Verhagen Dinteloord, potato merchantshttp://www.verhagen-dinteloord.nl/Verhagen BV of Dinteloord have been potato merchants since 1923. In the heart of the Delta lime area we have been grading, washing an packing potatoes for the processing industry and fruit and vegatable market.

Westhoeve Potatoes, Hollandhttp://www.westhoevepotatoes.comWe are a family run business with more than 30 years of experience and we pride ourselves in being at the forefront with our flexible buyers, packers and distributors of Dutch pota-toes.Because we are conveniently located within short distance of the most important ports and because of our solid relationships with our suppliers and our use of modern computerized packing machines, we can supply high quality potatoes in almost every pack size with short lead times worldwide.


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WK, specialist in onionshttp://www.wiskerke-onions.nl/index_en.htmWiskerke Onions, a dutch company, works to be te shortest line from producer to consumer. One of the pictures of the web site is an old packaginhouse installation.

Yellow ginger as a very special producthttp://www.naturalgreen.pe/Naturalgreen is a Peruvian company with a very special export product: yellow ginger.Both ecologically and conventionally grown. Sizes range between 150 and 250 g and are ex-ported in cardboard boxes 13.6 kg (30 pounds) in weight. In their web page you can find very interesting pictures showing the post harvest and packaging procedures for this pro-duct. The company also sells turmeric, bananas and other exotic fruits.

Yex, Let’s make exotics naturalhttp://www.yex.nl/Let’s make exotics natural! Our aim is to make consumers enjoy uncommon vegetables and fruit from all over the world to the maximum. Melons, pineapples and bananas are common in any household. We think it’s normal that these items are in our fruit bowl. But what about sweet potatoes, pitahayas and pomelos?That is why we founded Yex. With a team in which knowledge, entrepreneurship and service are paramount. Our goal is to bring exotics, tropicals and citrus fruits to the homes of consu-mers all over Europe and to have them enjoy these products in a way that does them all jus-tice.


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Trade fairs and other meetings

Specific exhibitions & meetingsAPA, African Potato Associationeach 3 years (the last, 2013)http://www.africanpotatoassociation.org/

ALAP Congresshttp://www.papaslatinas.org

XX Triennial Conference of the EAPRVersailles, France, July 9-14, 2017. EAPR, European Association for Potato Researchhttp://www.eapr.net

Europatat Congress7 to 9th May 2015, Düsseldorf, Germanyhttp://www.europatatcongress.eu

India PotatoExpo2016 data to be determined shortlyhttp://www.indiapotatoexpo.com

Interpom Primeursbiannual, 27 al 29 de febrero 2016, Kortrijk XPO, Belgiumhttp://www.interpom.be

IPPSC, International Potato Processing & Storage Conventionyearly, 17 -19th June 2015, Bucarest, Romaniahttp://www.potatoconvention.com/

Potato Europeyearly, 2 - 3 September 2015, Kain (Tournai), Belgiumhttp://www.potatoerupe.com

Potato Expo12-14th January 2016, Las Vegas, USAhttp://www.potato-expo.comUK Onion & Carrot Conference & Exhibition3 y 4 November 2015http://www.onionandcarrotconference.co.uk/

9th World Potato Congress28-30th July 2015, Beijing, Chinahttp://www.potatocongress.org/


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Produce exhibitionsAsia Fruit Logisticayearly, 2 - 4 September 2015, Hong Kong, Chinahttp://www.asiafruitlogistica.com/en/

Fruit Attractionyearly, 28 al 30 October 2015, Madrid, Spainhttp://www.fruitattraction.ifema.es

Fruit Logisticayearly, 3-5th February 2016, Berlin, Germanyhttp://www.fruitlogistica.com

Macfrutyearly, 23 - 25th September, Rimini, Italyhttp://www.macfrut.com

PMA Fresh Summit23 - 25th October 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USAhttp://www.pma.com

Machinery exhibtionsAgritechnica8 - 11th November 2015, Hanover, Germanyhttp://www.agritechnica.com/

FIMAeach 2 years; 16-20th February 2016, Zaragoza, Spainhttp://www.feriazaragoza.es/fima_agricola.aspx

SIMAParis, Francehttp://www.simaonline.com/

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Documents

Info Root Vegetables 2015