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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....

Europatat is glad to announce that VLAM has joined the association as an associated member. VLAM vzw is a private organisation that is recognised by the Belgian Flemish government as the only promotion centre for the promotion both in the internal and external markets...

Europatat has signed the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Food Business and Marketing Practices, a voluntary initiative with which the European potato trade sector commits to contribute and support the transition towards a more sustainable food system that it has...

On 16 October, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) organises the International Food Day. FAO states that the food we choose and the way we consume it affect our health and that of our planet. It has also an impact on the way agri-food systems work. We, the...