Agrico
Say potato, say Agrico
Agrico emphasizes the significance of starting with healthy, high-quality seed potatoes and receiving expert advice to ensure a successful outcome.
Agrico takes pride in its commitment to knowledge and research, allowing them to cultivate a diverse selection of unique potato varieties. These varieties are known for their effective resistance, strong characteristics, and high yield. The seed potatoes supplied by Agrico are fully certified, ensuring their quality and reliability.
Recognizing the importance of meeting local needs, Agrico has developed potato varieties that are perfectly aligned with cultivation conditions, taste preferences, and preparation methods in over 80 countries. They offer these varieties as seed potatoes, mini tubers, or even in vitro, catering to specific requirements. Agrico aims to provide the perfect potato and suitable solution for every situation, guaranteeing the best yield for farmers worldwide.
Agrico also emphasizes its continuous efforts in developing new and improved potato varieties. Their “New Generation” varieties, introduced in 2018, possess natural resistance to late blight, a destructive potato disease. These varieties contribute to the sustainability of potato cultivation globally while maintaining excellent consumption properties and yield.
Beyond supplying high-quality seed potatoes, Agrico supports its customers by providing extensive advice on cultivation methods, harvesting, storage, and logistics. They emphasize their commitment to customer relationships and joint responsibility for growth. Agrico offers independent certification, comprehensive quality assurance, active knowledge-sharing, and rapid, reliable delivery through its global network.
Contact Agrico for more information on seed potatoes, highlighting the company’s willingness to provide effective expert advice and assistance in cultivation, harvesting, storage, and logistics. Agrico’s investment in knowledge and research allows them to offer a wide range of unique seed potato varieties to meet diverse needs and preferences.
FAQs
Research and development
Agrico Research recognizes the importance of research and development in sustainable potato cultivation due to increasing demand, changing climatic conditions, population growth, and consumer demands.
Agrico Research is a leading knowledge institute focusing on developing innovative potato varieties. The research priorities include higher yields, improved nutrients, enhanced flavor profiles, natural resistances to potato diseases, and suitability for specific climates and soil types.
The cultivation characteristics of the potato varieties are continuously improved, considering factors such as maturing time, skin color, flesh color, tuber shape, and cooking type to meet the needs of growers, retailers, and the processing industry.
The breeding program at Agrico Research aims to develop varieties with natural resistance to diseases like late blight. Quality improvement is emphasized, taking into account factors such as shape, nutritional value, flavor, storage options, and processing characteristics.
Additionally, optimizing returns by increasing yield and minimizing loss of yield is a priority in the development of new potato varieties.
Worldwide expertise
Agrico is a company that specializes in developing innovative potato varieties suitable for successful and sustainable cultivation worldwide. They offer high-quality, certified, and healthy seed potatoes, which can be delivered anywhere in the world.
Agrico has established local branches or representatives in more than 80 countries, allowing them to propagate potatoes locally using methods such as mini tubers or in vitro stock to meet local requirements and capacities.
Through collaboration and the exchange of global knowledge, Agrico aims to provide top-quality products and expertise tailored to the specific needs of each region. With their extensive network of subsidiaries and agents, they have direct links to local markets, enabling them to add value to the local potato value chain in alignment with individual requirements and in the local language.
