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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...

Europatat warmly welcomes Optimus Land, a company based in Liopetri – Famagusta – Red Villages Cyprus and specialised in the production of high-quality potatoes with a history in the potato trading for more than ten years. Optimus Land is making an effort to promote a...

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....

Today we celebrate the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) to call to action to halve food waste by 2030 and reduce food losses along the food production and supply chains. Europatat members are fully committed to maintain food waste levels...

The EU’s agricultural promotion policy is one of the flagship initiatives of the European Commission, aiming at supporting the competitiveness of EU’s agri-food sector. Fresh potatoes are one of the eligible products within the EU’s promotion budget. As such,...