Potato Developments in a Changing Europe show how each potato industry in transition deals with the socio-economic and environmental situation in varying degrees of development to adapt to a changing Europe.
Contents
- Challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s agricultural world
- The product and the association in transition – the mission of UNIKA
Modern breeding practices
- Overview of biotechnological breeding possibilities
- Modern methods for modern potato breeding programmes
- Stacking of resistance genes in potato by cisgenesis instead of introgression
breeding
Sustainable and organic production
- Potatoes and the environment: An overview
- Sustainable agriculture and food chain: Status quo and perspectives for the
potato food chain
- French quality and environmental schemes: Meeting customer requirementsthe
potato sector’s approach
- Agronomic strategies for the organic cultivation of potatoes for processing
into high quality French fries and potato crisps
- Precision farming: Opportunities and limitations in potato farming
Crop protection and fertilisation
- Relevant diseases in potato production
- Early blight: Effect of different parameters on the disease development
- Effect of different forms and additional potassium fertilisation on yield and
industrial quality of potatoes
- Calcium in potato growing
Product quality and certification
- Potato quality: Getting the basics right
- Certification of ware potatoes and potatoes used for industrial processing in
Poland
- Quality improvement and market development of ware and seed potato in
Russia
Trade of seed and ware potatoes
- Reproduction right of seed potatoes in Russia
- Risk Management: How to combine forwards with futures
Consumer behaviour and marketing
- How to think like consumers... and win!
- McDonald’s Agricultural Assurance Programme
- Potato developments in a changing Europe
- Creating success in central and eastern Europe: Rocket science not needed!
Issues of the potato industry per country
- Potato sector in Poland: From breeding to production
- Current trends in the Hungarian potato production
- The Czech potato crop in the European Union
- Actual state and future trends of the Romanian potato industry
- Potato in Estonia: Production and research
- General information on the potato production, trade and perspectives of
potato market development in Russia
- Changes on the German potato market
Index
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