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Europatat warmly welcomes De aardappelhoeve, one of the largest potato packaging companies in Belgium. Bart and Anja Nemegheer-Provyn are the heart and soul of De aardappelhoeve. Their passion for agriculture runs through their veins. Ever since they took over the...

As we enter 2025, the final year of our EU Agri Promo campaign “Potatoes, prepare to be surprised – Europe’s favourite since 1536” 🇪🇺, we are excited to share a brand-new resource designed to keep the potato inspiration going every day: our Potato Calendar!  This...

Europatat warmly welcomes Agrosad, one of the largest potato packaging companies in Poland. AGROSAD was founded more than 30 years ago, in 1992, on the basis of a farm cultivating edible potatoes for early harvest. In the first years of activity, the company was...

Since July 2020, the Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat has been an active partner, has focused its research activity in understanding how potato plants acclimate to single and combined...

Europatat warmly welcomes GB Potatoes, the new potato sectorial association from the UK. After the AHDB potato levy board ceased to exist, leaving the potato industry without unified sector focused representation, GB Potatoes was established in May 2022 by a small...

Europatat warmly welcomes Omnivent, an international specialist in consultancy, design, production and installation of modern ventilation and cooling equipment for storing potatoes and other crops such as onions and carrots. The Omnivent group is currently active in...

A new, aggressive strain of potato blight, resistant to common fungicides, is spreading across Europe, posing a threat to potato crops. This development prompted an important meeting last week between the European potato value chain, including Europatat, and the...

Since July 2020, the Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT) in which Europatat is participating, has focused its research activity in understanding the potato signaling pathways for single and combined abiotic...

As an active partner of the EU Horizon Europe project PataFEST, Europatat attended the consortium meeting that was organised in Olomouc, Czech Republic, on 18 and 19 June to share progress on the project and outline the next steps for continued success.  Hosted by the...

The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims to elucidate potato tolerance to single and combined abiotic stresses, and to develop new strategies for potato improvement. Small...