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On 5 and 6 April, Europatat travelled to Berlin (Germany) to attend Fruit Logistica 2022, the world’s leading international trade fair for fresh fruit and vegetables with exhibitors from more than 80 countries. Europatat used this occasion to meet with several of its...

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. This...

Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development held an “Exchange of views on the disruption in the EU-GB trade in seed potatoes" to which Europatat was invited to speak. Europatat used this opportunity to highlight the impact of there...

Europatat warmly welcomes Patatas Conde, a potato family business located right in the heart of the Protected Geographical Indication (IGP) “Pataca de Galicia”. The company took its first steps in the 70's with a small potato warehouse in the city of Ourense. Some...

In 2022 Europatat is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. The “European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Potatoes” was established on 12 January 1952 in Paris, including members from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Seventy years...

Europatat warmly welcomes Luonnosta Finland Oy, a Finnish trading company in the potato and fruit and vegetable sectors. Luonnosta Finland Oy was founded in 1986, and nowadays is the biggest exporter of potatoes and vegetables in Finland. About half of the company´s...

A young creative team from National Institute of biology, led by Prof. Dr. Kristina Gruden is developing the open science application StressKnowledgeMap, to enable breeders and others to fully benefit from the compiled knowledge about the mechanisms underlying plant...

Europatat warmly welcomes Udapa, one of the top 5 potato traders and packers in the Spanish market. Udapa is a cooperative formed by farmers, business managers and a credit entity. It was founded in 1993 with the goal of innovating, improving and professionalising...

Brexit is having a significant impact on trade in seed potatoes between the European Union (EU) and Great Britain (GB). Since 1 January 2021, the EU no longer allows the import of seed potatoes from GB due to the lack of an agreement over equivalence of the pertinent...

Europatat is part of an international consortium involved in the research project ADAPT (“Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato”), which aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future....