LA PAPA EN LOS DIARIOS

Las noticias en inglés serán publicadas en su idioma original

Le Cordon Bleu Supports Andean Farmers in the T'ikapapa Potato Goldmine Project (13/12/2007)
Le Cordon Bleu, one of the world's key institutions for culinary arts training and higher education for hospitality, restaurant and tourism is known for it teaching of French culinary techniques to upwards of 27,000 students of more than 70 nationalities yearly. These techniques regularly use local ingredients in the preparation of French cuisine.

Experto israelí capacita con tecnología de punta a productores de papa (08/12/2007)
A puertas del Año Internacional de la Papa 2008, El Programa Sierra Exportadora en convenio con el gobierno israelí trabajará con el apoyo de expertos asiáticos, en los diferentes proyectos que viene ejecutando en la sierra del Perú, para brindar capacitación y asistencia técnica a los productores de papa con la finalidad de mejorar sus rendimientos y aumentar sus ingresos.

Sobreproducción de papa tiene en quiebra a dos mil familias cultivadoras en Tolima, Colombia (07/12/2007)
Las pérdidas entre los productores de 27 veredas de ese municipio ascienden a 1.500 millones de pesos, dejando sin empleo a más de 1.000 recolectores. Su precio bajó de 80 mil a 20 mil pesos (aprox. USD10).

UW researcher develops test to weed out diseased potatoes (29/11/2007)
Just as a rotten apple can spoil the bunch, so can a rotten potato. So UW-Madison researchers have developed a test that may for the first time allow growers to prevent widespread crop damage.

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PRECIOS DE LA PAPA

Si Ud.conoce sitios web donde publiquen cada día /semana los precios de la papa, por favor envieme su dirección a mi casillero electrónico.

Federación Nacional de Productores de Papa [Argentina]
Precios diarios de la papa en pesos corrientes por Kg. (netos de impuestos). El sistema ofrece precios desde el 16/05/03.

Información de Precios y Volúmenes del Mercado Central de Buenos Aires [Argentina]
En este sitio Ud. encontrará los precios diarios del Mercado Central de Buenos Aires de frutas, hortalizas y depósito. En pesos corrientes por Kg. (netos de impuestos). El sistema requiere que el usuario se registre en forma gratuita.

Abasto Central de Mar del Plata [Argentina]
Hacer clic en Lista de Precios, enlace ubicado a la derecha de la página. Recuerde que la papa en Argentina se incluye en las hortalizas.

Servicio Informativo de Mercados Agropecuarios [Bolivia]
Hacer 'clic' en SIMA, ubicado en el menú izquierdo de la página
El Servicio Informativo de Mercados Agropecuarios, SIMA, de la Fundación para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario de los Valles, ofrece los precios de venta al por mayor de productos agricolas en los principales mercados mayoristas.

InfoHort [Canada]
Ud. encontrará en este sitio la siguiente información: Potato FOB Market Prices, Canadian FOB Monthly Summary Report, Canadian Potato Storage by Province, Intended Utilization of Potatoes y Canadian Certified Seed Potatoes by Varieties and Hectares [Ingles-Frances]

Corporación Colombia Internacional, CCI [Colombia]
Boletin SIPSA que ofrece los precios diarios y semanales de la papa.

Centro Virtual de Investigación de la Cadena Agroalimentaria, CEVIPAPA [Colombia]
Página que ofrece los precios diarios de la papa en la Corporación de Abastos de Bogotá S.A. - CORABASTOS, Corporación de Abastecimiento del Valle del Cauca - CAVASA, Central Mayorista de Antioquia - CMA y Federación Colombiana de Productores de Papa - FEDEPAPA.

Consejo Nacional de Producción [Costa Rica]
Mirar en la sección Información de Mercados (menú izquierdo) y hacer clic en papa.

Servicio de información para la agricultura familiar campesina, SITEX [Chile]
Contiene información sobre producto y unidad de medida, variedad, calidad, valor mínimo del día y mercado de transacción.

Oficinas de Estudios y Políticas Agrarías, ODEPA [Chile]
Ir a la sección Estadísticas y precios (menú izquierdo). El usuario que quiera acceder a la información debe registrarse previamente. Es un trámite simple, rápido y sin costo.

Agroterra.com [España]
Precios semanales de la patata [Euros] en Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Sevilla y Valencia.

InfoAgro.com [España]
Precios en origen, precios en destino y precios para el consumidor [recuerde que en España la patata está clasificada dentro de las hortalizas].

AgroNet [México]
AgroNet otorga de manera sencilla y práctica a los agricultores, ganaderos, agroindustriales y démas personas relacionadas con la actividad, información y herramientas de vanguardia tecnológica, a fin de que la toma de decisiones y comercialización de bienes y servicios sea más dinámica y rentable.

Instituto de Mercadeo Agropecuario [Panamá]
Ir a Precios de productos -menú ubicado a la izquierda- en donde se ofrecen los precios nacionales e internacionales.

CAPAC Perú [Perú]
El Sistema de Información de la Cadena Agroalimentaria de la Papa, SIPAPA (menú superior derecho; hacer clic en SIPASA Nuevo), ofrece dos tipos de reportes: Papa al Día, reporte diario de comercialización de papa en el mercado mayorista No. 1 y La Madrugada, avance informativo de ingresos de papa al Mercado Mayorista No. 1.

Sistema de Información Rural de Arequipa [Perú]
En la parte superior derecha se encuentran los Precios diarios de Arequipa y Lima, en archivos PDF.

Sistema de Informação de Mercados Agrícolas, SIMA [Portugal]
SIMA tem como principal objectivo o acompanhamento dos mercados agrícolas, recolhendo para o efeito as cotações/preços dos produtos e a informação qualitativa ou quantitativa (quantidades, stocks, etc) necessária à caracterização das condições de escoamento dos produtos [Hacer 'clic' en Consulta de Cotações, ubicado en la parte superior derecha la página; marcar Vegetais y a continuación Hortícolas e indicar el período a consultar]

British Potato Council [Reino Unido]
Información semanal del precio de la papa en el Reino Unido y Europa. Buscar el enlace Potato Weekly situado a la derecha de la página [Ingles].

Mercado Modelo [Uruguay]
El Mercado Modelo es el principal centro de comercio mayorista de frutas, hortalizas y productos de granja en el Uruguay. Los precios de la papa se encuentran al hacer clic en Información/Precios Mayoristas (menú izquierdo).

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LA PAPA EN LOS CENTROS DE INVESTIGACION

Las noticias en inglés serán publicadas en su idioma original

Biblioteca del CIP
Un listado de los documentos adquiridos durante la ultima quincena se encuentran disponibles en http://cip.catalog.cgiar.org/mis_adquisitions.asp

Biotecnología Agrícola en el SIGLO XXI: Presente y futuro del cultivo de papa
Presentación en Power Point de la conferencia dictada por Sergio E. Feingold durante la XXX Fiesta Nacional de la Papa, Cmdte. Nicanor Otamendi, 15-18 de Marzo de 2007 - PDF.

Panorama 2007 de la Producción de Papa en la Argentina
Presentación en Power Point. Marcelo Huarte, INTA-Balcarce - PDF.

Wild potato species threatened by extinction in the Department of La Paz, Bolivia
Por M. Coca-Morante y W. Castillo-Plata. En: Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 2007 5(4), 487-496 - PDF.

Trapping water from nature helps P.E.I. potato producers (September 2007)
Prince Edward Island farmers have come to realize in recent years that they shouldn't depend on the weather to provide adequate rainfall to produce better yields and high quality crops. With a mandate to address possible droughts and water shortages, the Canada-Prince Edward Island Water Program contributed $97,000 towards a project aimed at maximizing the benefits of rain provided by Mother Nature in producing potato crops. An application was put forth by Ron DeHaan, manager of the Sustainable Agriculture section of the P.E.I. Department of Agriculture (Fisheries and Aquaculture) for this project.

Native potatoes improved at CIP will aid Andean communities (September 2007)
Two new varieties of native potato with resistance to late blight have been bred by CIP scientists that will add value to native potatoes and improve the income of farming communities of the High Andes who grow such varieties. The new improved native varieties also give higher yields than those of their ancestors.

The Benefits of Colored Potato Varieties (Septiembre 2007)
Colored potato varieties have been found to contain a large amount of health promoting compounds that are thought to promote human health through a range of activity. Though not considered essential vitamins or nutrients, these compounds, known as antioxidants have been shown to neutralize cancer causing agents and cell damaging molecules called "free radicals" - PDF.

Potatoes and the Kenai Peninsula: Obtaining Introduced Potato Cultivars from Russian Old Believers and Early Settlers (March 2007)
(Pag. 42) This presentation will discuss potato cultivars from the Russian Old Believers of Kachemak Selo and Nikolaevsk Village as well as pioneer gardens such as the Yule Kilcher Homestead in Homer, AK that were collected during September 2007. Some of these pioneer varieties may have been rediscovered such as the Arctic Seedling, because their planting has been discontinued except on the Kenai. Potatoes in Alaska arrived from different sources such as trade among Northwest Coast Native People, explorers and homesteaders. Potatoes presently being grown in Southeast Alaska have been traced back generations through oral and written history. Tlingit potatoes called Maria's potato and Haida potatoes called Kasaan potatoes were recently obtained and DNA testing shows they are related, but not identical to each other and the Ozette potato of the Makah Nation (Only abstract) - PDF.

Phytochemical Profilers: Investigate Potato Benefits (September 2007)
It's no secret that the potato is America's favorite vegetable. Indeed, U.S. consumers eat about 130 pounds of potatoes per person each year. Fried, baked, or mashed—it doesn't matter: Americans love their spuds. Now, this culinary love affair could grow even more passionate with Agricultural Research Service (ARS) findings that some potato varieties are chock full of beneficial plant compounds called "phytochemicals." - PDF.

Spongospora subterranea soil contamination and its relationship to severity of powdery scab on potatoes (August 2007)
We investigated soil contamination by Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea (Sss) and disease severity of powdery scab in 29 potato fields in Hokkaido, Japan, using a hydroponic culture method with tomato seedlings as bait plants. The quantity of Sss infection on the roots of bait plants was evaluated using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and expressed in terms of the infection potential in the soil. The infection potential was positively correlated with the disease severity of harvested tubers, whereas the spore ball density determined using PCR had an indistinct relationship with disease severity. The infection potential can be useful in evaluating soil contamination and in applying countermeasures against powdery scab (The full text article is available for purchase).

Soil Spread in Potato Storage Boxes Filled on the Potato Harvester (May 2007)
For uniform quality, potatoes must be sufficiently ventilated during their storage in boxes. Soil and other foreign material that enters the box together with the harvest can impede ventilation. The proportion and distribution of foreign material in the potato boxes are therefore of interest, as both parameters have a crucial influence on the ventilation of the potatoes. In connection with the testing of a potato harvester that fills the potatoes in storage boxes on the machine, the aim was to clarify what proportion and what distribution the foreign material assumes in the box. For reference purposes boxes located on a transport vehicle were filled from the potato harvester hopper too - PDF.

Potato is more sustainable source of protein than rivals (May 2007)
The potato could emerge as a serious player in the nutritional ingredients market and as a "far more sustainable" source of protein than many of its rivals, according to researchers gathered in Amsterdam for a seminar on the merits of vegetable vs animal protein.

Late Blight - Country Profiles (June 2007)

Simulation of Potato Gas Exchange Using SPUDSIM (August 2007)
PUDSIM is a new potato model derived from an older USDA-ARS model, SIMPOTATO, developed to incorporate new advances in the knowledge of plant growth and development. Modifications incorporated in SPUDSIM focus at simulating canopy growth and development at the individual leaf level and include routines for individual leaf appearance rates and leaf expansion as a function of leaf physiological age and plant assimilate status. Coupled sub-models for leaf level photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance were used to replace the older radiation use efficiency approach. A radiative transfer routine that estimates intercepted photosynthetically active radiation for sunlit and shaded leaves was also added. During each time increment, net photosynthetic rate is estimated for sunlit and shaded leaf area. Photosynthate is partitioned among leaves in the canopy according to leaf age, potential expansion, and plant assimilate status. Assimilate allocation to branches, roots, and tubers proceeds according to fixed partitioning coefficients defined in SIMPOTATO. Remaining photosynthate is used to support the appearance of new leaves or branches in the canopy according to predicted demand. Whole plant gas exchange and harvest data from SPAR (soil-plant-atmosphere research) chamber experiments conducted at USDA-ARS Beltsville, MD were used to evaluate SPUDSIM predictions. Results indicate that SPUDSIM accurately captures potato growth and developmental responses over a wide range of temperatures and will be suitable for a variety of applications involving complex soil-plant-atmospheric system relationships (The full text article is available for purchase).

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Desde Honduras
Gustavo Adolfo Oliva Barahona <gaoliva@sefin.gob.hn>
Estoy interesado en obtener mayor información sobre el costo de una planta industrializadora de papa prefrita congelada, que tenga una capacidad para procesar al menos 4,000 Kg./día; como materia prima se usará la variedad Yukon Gold.

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