The story of the Vidalia onion has been described as “fluke to fortune.” In its early days of cultivation, Depression-era farmers were searching for a new cash crop. Moses Coleman, ...

The potato is the third most available food crop in the world, and India is its second-largest producer and consumer. The center will bring global science expertise on preservation and genetics to ...

The potato industry faces challenges related to storage, transportation, and potential pest and disease management as ...

The centre is expected to play a key role in enhancing food and nutritional security, increasing farmers' income, and ...

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a proposal from the Department of Agricul ...

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal from the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare to establish the ...

Starch is commercially produced from various sources such as corn, tapioca, wheat, potato, rice, pea, barley, sago, and sweet potato. There are two types of potatoes used for industrial starch ...

Hailed as the "capital of sweet potatoes", Liancheng's history of planting such tubers spans hundreds of years, and today the county plants sweet potatoes on over 6,667 hectares. Liancheng is home to ...

Experts said if such technique can be scaled-up to the level of industrialization, it may revolutionize how this key nutrient and industrial ingredient is made, since it does not require farming and ...

Sweet potatoes have a significantly lower glycemic index than most other starchy foods, typically ranging from 30-50 depending on preparation method, compared to white potatoes at 70-85, white ...

Using only your fingers, sweet potato slips can be cleanly snapped off of the sweet potato, no knife is needed. A good length for slips is around eight to ten inches or so.

Unlike All-Purple sweet potato leaf extracts, which exhibited a lower EC50 value for the breast cancer cell line, Carolina Ruby sweet potato leaf and stem extracts exhibited a lower EC50 value for ...