A STAFF REPORTER
Calcutta, Jan. 14: Food and beverage company PepsiCo today announced its decision to pump an additional Rs 250 crore into its factory at Sankrail, Howrah.

PepsiCo subsidiary Frito-Lay manufactures and markets a variety of chips and snacks from the Rs 500-crore unit.

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The potatoes being dumped in the crater dug for the purpose near the cold storage. Picture by Anirban Choudhury
Alipurduar, Jan. 12: More than 23,000 quintals of potato had to be buried after a cold storage owner failed to sell them on the intruction of the State Bank of India (SBI) as part of its loan recovery drive.

Ludhiana: Punjab once again seems to heading towards a potato glut. A 15-year low price and high production of this crop is fast becoming a bane for potato growers, who are now demanding Government intervention for salvaging the situation.

The prevailing potato price in the state is Rs 1.50 per kg, which, as per Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha, secretary general,

Having faced sourcing issues for potato in 2008, food and beverage major PepsiCo is planning to ensure supply by introducing farming equipment and technology and new potato seed varieties to decrease chances of crop loss. It also aims to increase the acreage under contract farming by entering new states across the country.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 16, 2008, 0:25 IST

It beats rice and wheat in almost all respects.

More losses for Bihar farmers AFTER a loss of crops to the tune of Rs 800 crore during the Kosi floods, rotting of 3,400 tonnes of potato worth Rs 2 crore in a cold storage in Patna has dealt another blow to Bihar

Vishnu Pandey / Kanpur November 01, 2008, 20:55 IST

A severe fertiliser shortage is threatening the timely sowing of potato and allied crops such as mustard in the

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain

By Terry Wade

LIMA (Reuters) - Scientists around the world have teamed up to sequence the genome of the potato, hoping to crack the genetic code of one of the world's most important crops at a time of surging population growth and high food prices.

Solanum tuberosum, the scientific name of the humble white potato, looks simple. But it is chock full of mysteries hidden in its 12 chromosomes and 840 million DNA base pairs. Humans, by comparison, have 3 billion DNA base pairs.

Sangrur, September 5

Due to the suspension of production by PepsiCo India at its plant at Channo village (near Bhawanigarh) in this district, thousands of potato growers are a worried lot nowadays as in present circumstances they are unable to understand whether Pepsi will purchase their next potato crop or not.

Following the conflict between the PepsiCo management and the workers union of the Channo plant over the issue of reinstatement of some suspended employees and one terminated employee due to the agitation by workers at the plant, the Pepsi management suspended production work.