Arjan Brouwer, manager for Latin America from the Dutch company Kiremko, the large potato processing company, attracted by the market possibilities for potato in Peru, was in Lima and said that yellow potato - the native variety - is the best he ever tasted.
Although he explained that the Netherlands took 50 years to develop automatization and perfection in the production chain for potato, so such experience says that there's no other way for Peru if they wish to seriously develop the potato industry.
More than selling the technological pack, the representative said that they developed a strategic plan for the development of the potato agro-industry (see printed edition of AgroNegociosPerú).
In that sense, the National Council for Science and Technology (Concytec) assumed the main role to boost the potato industrialization by assuming in the Chamber of Machinery Makers and Technology Development of Peru (CAFATEC), a consortium of companies that build machinery for industrial use, to develop in alliance with Kiremko the processing machinery needed to develop the automated techniques for washing and packing, adding up to the know-how for storing.
"The way forward for potato is still quite tough", said the president of CORPAPA - the National Coordinator for Potato Producers, Edilberto Soto Tenorio. Although, he said that today there are advances in native potatoes that were unknown to the market in Lima before, like Q'ompis, the cucumber potato, among others.
Source: agronegociosperu.org
The president of the National Coordinator for Potato Producers (CORPAPA), Edilberto Soto Tenorio and the manager for Latin America of the Dutch company Kiremko, Arjan Brouwer.
Although he explained that the Netherlands took 50 years to develop automatization and perfection in the production chain for potato, so such experience says that there's no other way for Peru if they wish to seriously develop the potato industry.
More than selling the technological pack, the representative said that they developed a strategic plan for the development of the potato agro-industry (see printed edition of AgroNegociosPerú).
In that sense, the National Council for Science and Technology (Concytec) assumed the main role to boost the potato industrialization by assuming in the Chamber of Machinery Makers and Technology Development of Peru (CAFATEC), a consortium of companies that build machinery for industrial use, to develop in alliance with Kiremko the processing machinery needed to develop the automated techniques for washing and packing, adding up to the know-how for storing.
"The way forward for potato is still quite tough", said the president of CORPAPA - the National Coordinator for Potato Producers, Edilberto Soto Tenorio. Although, he said that today there are advances in native potatoes that were unknown to the market in Lima before, like Q'ompis, the cucumber potato, among others.
Source: agronegociosperu.org