Welcome to
Potatoes South Africa!
Potatoes SA is a non-profit company of which our primary objective is to serve as the mouthpiece of the SA potato producers. Potatoes SA serves to establish and maintain a central representative body called the Potato Industry Forum, in respect of all potato affairs in which all the role players in the potato industry can participate and in doing so set industry strategies. Potatoes SA furthermore has the purpose to institute and endorse the maintenance of a national Potato Industry Development Trust (PIDT) which shall collect, distribute and govern industry levies in accordance to statutory strategies as set out in government notices. In terms of its role in the potato industry, Potatoes SA operates as an industry association and its structure represents a network of participating role players and individuals who are involved in various forums and committees. The vision of PSA is to build a viable potato industry in South Africa.
Welcome to
Potatoes South Africa!
Potatoes SA is a non-profit company of which our primary objective is to serve as the mouthpiece of the SA potato producers. Potatoes SA serves to establish and maintain a central representative body called the Potato Industry Forum, in respect of all potato affairs in which all the role players in the potato industry can participate and in doing so set industry strategies. Potatoes SA furthermore has the purpose to institute and endorse the maintenance of a national Potato Industry Development Trust (PIDT) which shall collect, distribute and govern industry levies in accordance to statutory strategies as set out in government notices. In terms of its role in the potato industry, Potatoes SA operates as an industry association and its structure represents a network of participating role players and individuals who are involved in various forums and committees. The vision of PSA is to build a viable potato industry in South Africa.
Articles
Meer as grond [News Coverage, VIA]
Be sure to watch the interview of Jannie Basson on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 on VIA at 18h00. Click here for more information. https://youtu.be/jMpRDE3qVos Jannie Basson
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Potato disease: Turkish provinces quarantined [Industry News, CHIPS]
The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry recently announced that quarantine measures had been implemented in 26 provinces due to potato wart, brown rot, ring rot, and cyst nematode detection in cultivars. As of this year, quarantine...
Sterk deelname aan Petrus Steyn Aartappel Gholfdag 2022 [Nuus, CHIPS]
"Phindiwe Nkosi, wie Aartappels SA (ASA) by die gholfdag verteenwoordig het, het Bosman se stelling beaam dat die dag ’n samebindende uitwerking op die bedryf het. “Dit is baie belangrik dat ASA by plaaslike gemeenskappe betrokke is. Ons ondersteun...
Potato disease: Turkish provinces quarantined [Industry News, CHIPS]
The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry recently announced that quarantine measures had been implemented in 26 provinces due to potato wart, brown rot, ring rot, and cyst nematode detection in cultivars. As of this year, quarantine measures are being...
Sterk deelname aan Petrus Steyn Aartappel Gholfdag 2022 [Nuus, CHIPS]
"Phindiwe Nkosi, wie Aartappels SA (ASA) by die gholfdag verteenwoordig het, het Bosman se stelling beaam dat die dag ’n samebindende uitwerking op die bedryf het. “Dit is baie belangrik dat ASA by plaaslike gemeenskappe betrokke is. Ons ondersteun dié dag al vir baie...
Potatoes SA crowns second Enterprise Development Farmer
Aldrin Lawrence, a potato farmer from Buysdorp in Limpopo, has been crowned the second Enterprise Development Farmer of the Year by Potatoes South Africa (PSA), during a gala event held in Pretoria. For the past eight years, the Enterprise Development...
Meer as grond [News Coverage, VIA]
Be sure to watch the interview of Jannie Basson on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 on VIA at 18h00. Click here for more information. https://youtu.be/jMpRDE3qVos Jannie Basson
Potato disease: Turkish provinces quarantined [Industry News, CHIPS]
The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry recently announced that quarantine measures had been implemented in 26 provinces due to potato wart, brown rot, ring rot, and cyst nematode detection in cultivars. As of this year, quarantine measures are being...
Sterk deelname aan Petrus Steyn Aartappel Gholfdag 2022 [Nuus, CHIPS]
"Phindiwe Nkosi, wie Aartappels SA (ASA) by die gholfdag verteenwoordig het, het Bosman se stelling beaam dat die dag ’n samebindende uitwerking op die bedryf het. “Dit is baie belangrik dat ASA by plaaslike gemeenskappe betrokke is. Ons ondersteun dié dag al vir baie...
Potatoes key to solving SA malnutrition challenges
As South Africa joins in celebrating World Food Day on 16 October, the spotlight has been thrust on the growing triple burden of malnutrition facing vulnerable households – especially given rising food insecurity and the loss of livelihoods in the wake of the...
![Impact of riots on fresh produce markets [Media Statement]: Big demand for potatoes on Durban and Pietermaritzburg Markets](https://www.potatoes.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/potatoes-1.1.png)
Impact of riots on fresh produce markets [Media Statement]: Big demand for potatoes on Durban and Pietermaritzburg Markets
Riots that erupted in major metropolitan areas during the past week have had a disruptive impact on our country which is already bearing the brunt of the persistent Covid burden. Food security is paramount in these troubled times where, if food is not looted,...
Potatoes SA Media Statement (2/2): 1 July 2021. Dr Ben Pieterse new Chairperson of PIDT pays tribute to Ernst Yzel
Since its inception in 2004, Ernst Yzel has been part and parcel of the Potato Industry Development Trust (PIDT). One of Potatoes South Africa’s (PSA) objectives as a non-profit company under the Companies Act, 2008 (Act 71 of 2008), is to institute and endorse the...
Nitrogen and potassium nutrition – a balancing act. Part 1: Plant and tuber growth
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Prof Martin Steyn and Tlotlisang Nkhase, University of Pretoria The potato is a highly productive crop with rapid dry matter accumulation over a short period of time. However, it has a high nutrient demand and to ensure...
Enterprise Development Programme
Limpopo 2021 Planting Season
Potatoes asserting its position as a true ally in health & nutrition
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Marketing division in its robust and relentless efforts to position potatoes as a healthy and true nutritional ally to combating the burden of malnutrition characterised by three concurrent threats of undernutrition,...
Meer as grond [News Coverage, VIA]
Be sure to watch the interview of Jannie Basson on Wednesday, 25 May 2022 on VIA at 18h00. Click here for more information. https://youtu.be/jMpRDE3qVos Jannie Basson
Potatoes South Africa Research Symposium 2022
The Research Symposium is a popular platform in the potato industry where technical issues are discussed, formally and informally. Researchers, funded by the potato industry, report back on the progress made with the research. All producers, researchers, students,...
Information Day: Limpopo Potato Planting
“Potatoes SA (PSA) believes that if you have a patch of potatoes in your backyard, you will never go hungry. While our main goal is to help potato farmers become commercial, we are also serious about doing our part to show that potatoes can boost food security. That’s...